Almoat all of your anxiety is caused by the obsessive thoughts you have. Whenever you’ve had anxiety in the past, it started with an obsessive thought, guaranteed. And then it gained momentum and went on to become the anxiety-related problem you experienced or the panic attack you had.
If you think this isn’t how it works with you and that your obsessive thoughts AREN’T the cause of your anxiety, start paying attention to how and what you’re thinking before your anxiety increases.
You’ll be surprised what you discover, because obsessive thoughts are at the heart of anxiety and panic in EVERYONE. I know this from talking and working with literally THOUSANDS of people who are just like you, and who are just like I was when obsessive thoughts were causing my own anxiety for 17 years.
The really bad thing about having an anxiety disorder is that you can’t just shut off your horrible thoughts like a lot of non-anxious people can. So you need a different option. And that option is to find ways to bring an instant halt to a potentially harmful thought before it ever has a chance to become an obsession.
I’m about to give you a quick, three-step plan of attack which you can start using right now to stop the thoughts you have turning into the obsessive thoughts that cause all your problems. Okay, here we go:
First Step: This step is all about you retraining your brain so that it can quickly spot harmful thoughts the moment they strike. This also includes small thoughts that might seem harmless, but these have the potential to grow and get out of control, so consider these small ones just as important as the bigger ones.
Second Step: You need to become exactly like people with no anxiety problems. For them, it’s simple to stop a bad thought anytime they want to. For you, it takes a little more work. The only way to stop one thought is by having another thought, so to stop the damaging thoughts you simply need to have a new thought that takes its place. You might be asking what you should be thinking. The answer is simple: think of anything it takes to stop that original and damaging thought.
Okay, step three is to make this new positive way of thinking a habit that happens automatically, just as your harmful thoughts are happening automatically for you right now. The only way to make this happen is to think positive thoughts as often as possible. In time, your brain will automatically think these positive thoughts when your mind wanders, where once it would have gone immediately to the damaging thoughts you experience right now.
Start putting these three steps into action as soon as possible and your obsessive thoughts and panic-related problems will soon be under control.
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