Hi Everyone!
I don't know if anyone has posted this tip yet or not.
I got this from "The Anxiety Cure" by Archibald Hart. He says that we anxiety types are very intelligent, so we are highly imaginative(don't you just want to love this guy already?? LOL!). It is for this reason that we start to fear things that other people have never imagined. It's because we are so intelligent (yes, thank you very much), we think ahead of people and come up with lots of scenarios. He also says that our brains get bored easily. This is a trick he passed along in his book and I am so excited to tell you that it is very effective:
When a recurring, highly troublesome worry is keeping you on edge, take 10 minutes to worry about it. Seriously! Keep your mind focused on the worry and DO NOT stop to think about it for exactly 10 minutes. Your imaginative brain will get bored with the thought, so your mind will keep wandering off the subject, but FORCE yourself to stay on that thought. After the 10 minutes, go back to letting your mind naturally wander. I've found that this works every time for me! [Wow!]
Have a good week!
Andrea
"Honey, if ya ain't feelin' the bumps in the road, ya ain't goin' nowhere!" (A wise Georgia Granny's take on living life to the fullest! LOL!)