
It is a turning point
Learning to manage what we feel not only brings calm, it also empowers us. Why? ... thoughts on thoughts... Do they generate more thoughts???
Because anxious thoughts sometimes run after us like pio pio chicks or like cua cua cua ducklings hahahahaha.
Many times my anxiety translates into thoughts that I can't stop, stop 🫷 and it's like somehow I wouldn't want them to be in me.mind, but these pio pio thoughts are deep inside me fucking up my life on a daily basis.
They make my life checkered, and somehow they don't come off, they don't disappear, they haunt me and deeply affect my existence.
I think the best way to prevent them has to do with the fact of changing the focus of what one is thinking, and for this to be so one must seek to distract oneself NOT from thinking but from doing it from actions.
Why from the actions? Because thinking about so many thoughts generates more thoughts 😂 and that's not where it's going.
It is necessary to divert anxious thoughts from actions by doing other things, from some activity that fills us with well-being, that makes us feel good for example walking, going to the beach, al.park to keep the anxiety under control and keep my anxiety at bay and recover the integral well-being.
Those fears produced by uncertainty, besides being present in our thoughts, are present in the way we decide to interpret uncertainty. Because it is from our mind that the future is built.
At my age, more than 60 I am learning to accept everything with more peace and serenity, that's when true freedom begins.
I have suffered in the recent past from emotional ambivalence congruent with situations "cardiovascular health" of my husband, very critical situation (life or death) for the moment we have gone through.
It is better to get busy so as not to focus totally on anxiety and make pauses for the triggers of them, for example social networks, stop looking out of my balcony constantly, and expectantly, among other things.
I know this is hard.
With that oppression in the chest, that internal monster that often drags us down, it is also a cry of the soul that wants to free itself, because it is anxiety of the moment that one is living, and it is not a condemnation, but an opportunity to face it.
When that happens to me I take a couple of deep breaths, because in that simple act, our brain starts to switch off the chaos.
It is our duty to take care of ourselves.
For me, the overflowing anxiety of the beginning of this year has started to put an "entry visa" on my intrusive thoughts. That is, to look at what I can control and manage emotionally and what I cannot achieve.
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To deal with what I consider negative with resilience, to do the right thing and to understand the process is not to put my arms down, it is to follow the rules to live in peace. When we change what we think, we change what we live. How do you transform that anxious thought?
Janitze. 🌹
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Any images in this post are taken with my iPhone 12, the Infinix pro-note 30 or with the camera eighties Rolleiflex 2.8 f, and edited with Canva
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