The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
David Carbonellamazon.com
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
in fact the thought is simply an expression of nervousness
if you create the habit of humoring your worrisome thoughts, you can increasingly pass over the invitation to argue without becoming embroiled or upset. You can play with the thoughts, rather than work against them.
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.
worry is based on ideas of what “would be bad” rather than what is likely.
Ultimately, the real meaning of the worrisome thoughts of chronic worry generally has little to do with the apparent content and subject matter of the thoughts.
you experience doubt, and treat it like danger
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
... See morethe more you oppose your thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations, the more you will have of them.