Anxious thoughts and broken old records.

Have you ever noticed that anxious thoughts are like

Panic Away!

a broken record?

I know with Ipods etc. it's a bit outdated to be
using a record analogy here but it works well to
illustrate a  key point about anxious thoughts.

Remember when a record got scratched it made
a very unpleasant sound and caused the needle to
get stuck on the same groove.

The same one line would play over and over again
ad nausea until you picked up the needle and moved
it past the scratch.

Anxious thoughts are bit like this. You might be
happily going about your day and then something
triggers an anxious thought.

The worry the thought creates sends an unpleasant
shock wave through your nervous system.
(The scratch on the record).

Then once you start reacting to the anxious thought it is
hard to stop thinking about it over and over again.
(The needle stuck in a groove)

The repetitive anxious thought can last minutes,
hours , days depending on how  upset you become
by the thought.

I want to share with you a quick technique to jump out
of this anxious groove. This technique is you learning how
to pick up the record needle and move it past the scratch.

Here it is:
1, Observe
2, Trust
3, Move

Observe the anxious thought and label it. Say

"Oh there is fear X again, imagine that"

Try your very best to not get sucked into reacting
emotionally to the thought.

Then

Trust that what you are worrying about will in all
probability never come about. Almost all the anxious
thoughts we have are a complete waste of our energy.

Trust that things will work out fine.

Joseph Cossman said  "If you want to test your memory,
try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today."

If you are religious/spiritual then hand your anxious
thought over to a higher power. Trust that there is nothing
to fear and you will be looked after.

Trust and let it go.

"Every evening I turn my worries over to God.
He's going to be up all  night anyway. " ~Mary C. Crowley

Lastly,

Move your attention elsewhere. Focus on something
positive that takes your mind out of the anxious groove.

Replace the anxious thought with a positive thought.
You are not trying to suppress the anxious thought, you
are simply moving your attention elsewhere. To continue
the record analogy, you pick the record needle up
(your attention) and move it out of the groove it was caught in.

If you are engaged in an activity then move your attention
fully there. Be 100% present in the moment.

If you are walking focus on the surroundings, if you are driving observe
all the sights and sounds. If you are with someone focus
all your attention on them.

By moving your attention into the present moment there is
no room for anxious thoughts to dominate your mind.

Play around with both moving your attention to positive
thoughts or into the present moment. Different people find
one or the other is easier to accomplish. The key thing is
to move your mind out of the anxious groove and put
you back in your natural flow.

So to sum up remember O.T.M.

Observe, Trust, Move

It takes a bit of practice but as long as you remember
the above 3 steps you will be able to dramatically eliminate
anxious thoughts from your day.

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