An Effective Way to Calm Your Mind Even When You Feel Really Anxious
When you feel anxious, one of the challenges is that your mind keeps whirring around, repeating internal conversations and inventing worst-case scenarios filled with negative outcomes. But where does all this negativity come from?
Imagine a timeline running through your mind. The timeline starts behind you in the past. This is where the repeated conversations are coming from. These conversations and rants are stored in your memory, so it’s easy to access them and play them again.
Also in your memory are old stories of past catastrophes and events that had unhappy outcomes. The feelings from these events come tumbling down the timeline from your past and add to your anxiety whenever you start to feel anxious. It’s all behind you, but you continue to feed off it.
Using your memory to feed and maintain your feelings of anxiety is something that you do not have to do. It’s almost as if you have an evil algorithm that automatically feeds old anxious memories into your consciousness the moment you start to feel anxious. These memories of past anxious feelings add to and maintain your feelings of anxiety.
The timeline also runs out in front of you into the future. There, your imagination of what might happen starts to feed more anxious feelings into your…
