Cure Your Panic Attacks By Stopping Your Obsessive
Have you ever asked what the root cause of all your panic and anxiety truly is? Well, in my opinion, it’s very likely to be the obsessive thoughts you have. These obsessive thoughts are like snowballs that gather momentum and size and turn into the problems your anxiety causes you.
Just in case you’re thinking that you’re the exception to this theory, let me encourage you to give this theory a chance by beginning to pay close attention to exactly what’s on your mind in the time before your anxiety gets out of control.
You’ll be surprised what you discover, because obsessive thoughts are at the heart of anxiety and panic in EVERYONE. I know this from talking and working with literally THOUSANDS of people who are just like you, and who are just like I was when obsessive thoughts were causing my own anxiety for 17 years.
Unfortunately, when you have an anxiety disorder, it’s impossible to drop a thought automatically like most other people can. So the solution to this problem is finding ways to consciously drop a thought before it becomes harmful – before it becomes OBSESSIVE.
I have a 3 step plan you can start using right now to prevent all your obsessive thoughts:
Step #1: You need to train yourself to be able to spot a damaging thought as soon as it starts inside you. So don’t ignore harmful thoughts, even when they seem small and harmless. Realise that these little thoughts can turn into big ones, and treat them like something you MUST stop.
Second Step: You need to become exactly like people with no anxiety problems. For them, it’s easy to stop a bad thought anytime they want to. For you, it takes a bit more work. The only way to stop one thought is by having another thought, so to stop the damaging thoughts you simply need to have a new thought that takes its place. You might be asking what you should be thinking. The answer is simple: think of anything it takes to stop that original and damaging thought.
Step #3: Most harmful thoughts start when you’re daydreaming or when your mind is wandering. And these harmful thoughts are a HABIT. That’s why they happen so easily and sneak up on you, because you’ve trained your mind to slip into a negative autopilot. The only way to undo this is to retrain your mind, and you do that by thinking about nice things as often as you can, even if you have to use fantasies or old memories to do it. Think of it like creating a new default setting for your mind.