The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
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The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
When are we motivated to distract ourselves from unpleasant and worrisome thoughts? When we’re not facing a clear and present danger.
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
There’s no natural end point with chronic worry. It just drones on, continuing as if it has a life of its own.
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
Chronic worry doesn’t alert you to problems that need solving. It interferes with problem solving. If you experience chronic worry, your attention is focused on unlikely hypothetical future disasters, rather than current situations that require a solution. Chronic worries don’t get solved because there really isn’t anything to solve. The worry just
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the more you oppose your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations, the more you will have of them.
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
Worry predictions aren’t based on what’s likely to happen. They’re based on what would be terrible if it did happen. They’re not based on probability—they’re based on fear.
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
Serenity Prayer: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
there’s always something to worry about, because we can worry about any possibility we can imagine. We don’t need realistic danger to worry.
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
research on the subject of thought suppression2 clearly shows that the main effect of thought suppression is a resurgence of the thoughts
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
danger, we fight, or run, or freeze. For discomfort, we chill out and give it time to pass.