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
We will also do better when we can recognize the worry thoughts as signs of nervousness and anxiety, the same as an eye twitch or sweaty palms, rather than some important message about the future.
danger, we fight, or run, or freeze. For discomfort, we chill out and give it time to pass.
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.
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.
you experience doubt, and treat it like danger
the more you oppose your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations, the more you will have of them.
When you get tricked into treating the discomfort of doubt as if it were danger, this leads you to struggle against the doubt, trying to remove the unwanted thoughts from your mind.
The chronic relationship with worry is one in which you really care, all too much, about the worries, and try again and again to reform them.
research on the subject of thought suppression2 clearly shows that the main effect of thought suppression is a resurgence of the thoughts