"Taming" my anxiety
First of all I stop trying to "tame" it. Think of it like this , a mother differentiating between her own kids . What would happen? well the disaster is near.
My normal thoughts and my anxious thoughts are from the same brain. What right do I have to differentiate between them? And the more I try to name it as a bad feeling , the more it increases my tendency to shift to "good feeling" which again increases my anxiety. You see ? it's a vicious loop. Obviously we don't want that. We just want to break out of the loop . Right?
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