If you have negative/difficult/intrusive thoughts or feelings, don't try to stop or change what you're feeling, just change the meaning that you give it.
For example, you’re on a flight and as it’s about to take off the engines get loud and the plane goes faster and faster and so does your heart! The anxiety has kicked in! And you could tell yourself a number of different things about that.
You could tell your self that the plane is about to crash and we are all going to die!!! 😱
Or you could tell yourself that statistically speaking you’re in just about the safest place that you could be and you’re being a complete fucking idiot for feeling this way!!!
…or, you could tell yourself that these feelings make sense as flying isn’t natural to humans. You’re probably only the second generation in your whole 200k year family line to have ever felt these weird sensations and noises and to intentionally launch yourself into the sky. So ya, of course your nervous system is a bit on edge right now!
For example, you’re on a flight and as it’s about to take off the engines get loud and the plane goes faster and faster and so does your heart! The anxiety has kicked in! And you could tell yourself a number of different things about that.
You could tell your self that the plane is about to crash and we are all going to die!!! 😱
Or you could tell yourself that statistically speaking you’re in just about the safest place that you could be and you’re being a complete fucking idiot for feeling this way!!!
…or, you could tell yourself that these feelings make sense as flying isn’t natural to humans. You’re probably only the second generation in your whole 200k year family line to have ever felt these weird sensations and noises and to intentionally launch yourself into the sky. So ya, of course your nervous system is a bit on edge right now!
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