It’s so hard sometimes to switch off and not worry about things, I feel this sudden dread when even a little thing goes wrong. I sometimes wish we can just switch all our emotions off and live in the moment.
I always find acting upon thoughts and then finding it just spirals into a manic range of emotions, and finding out those thoughts were just thoughts. Just thoughts that just needed to be taken in consideration and let go instead of holding them and thinking they are going to take over my whole life.
I have found that these thoughts don’t exactly take over your whole life all they do is scare you for split second and then go.
Some of thoughts I have it seems I almost need to take a second glance and step back because I feel if I act on a thought then it corresponds into numerous amounts of thoughts with a range of emotions attached to them.
I also feel a relatively good ounce of positivity still in me whether that’s because I’m accepting the fact that I can and I’m dealing with the emotions and accepting the setbacks and therefore learning from them and one step I have found helpful is acknowledging what is going on and not being afraid to accept the thoughts that I have even if they are in the end just thoughts as I have said previously.
Such as the feeling of when I’m in a room and feeling a constant whirl wind of emotions which lead to a sense of outraged thoughts, which for that period of time makes me panic and worry. However these emotions are just temporary and they do not have an impact on what happens a couple of days ahead.
The way I try and look at the things I worry about is ‘is there anything I can do about it in this moment’ if the answer is no then I try and focus my attention on something else even if that can be such a difficult task, that is what I try and do in that moment in time.
If the panic starts I try and focus my attention on anything but the sensation of panic and the feelings that surround that. I try and stop myself and if I’m in a place which is uncomfortable I try and set myself little targets such as if I’m in an uncomfortable place then I think if I can stay here for a example 5 mins then at the end of that 5 mins if I’m still feeling uncomfortable then I think if I stayed for that 5 mins then is it possible to do another, then start to challenge myself until that period of time has ended but if I need to go out I try and not take it in a bad way.
Trying to look at thoughts/situations in a different way have helped me build new techniques which help me think more positively.
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