A 3 Step Plan To Stop Obsessive Thoughts And Panic
Posted on August 10th, 2010 by admin
Obsessive thoughts are the real cause of almost all your anxiety. Every single time you’ve had severe anxiety it started with an obsessive thought, and it spiralled out of control and eventually became the severe anxiety you felt or the panic attack you had.
If you think this isn’t how it works with you and that your obsessive thoughts AREN’T the cause of your anxiety, start paying attention to how and what you’re thinking before your anxiety increases.
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.
Sadly, if you suffer with any anxiety disorder, it’s not possible to simply stop having an obsessive thought without thinking about it, like people who are naturally calm can. So the answer lies in uncovering ways to intentionally end all these damaging thoughts before they go on to be obsessive thoughts.
I have a 3 step plan you can start using right now to prevent all your obsessive thoughts:
First Step: This step is all about you retraining your mind so that it can easily spot harmful thoughts the moment they start. This also includes small thoughts that might seem harmless, but these have the potential to grow and get out of control, so consider these small ones just as important as the bigger ones.
Step two is to learn a technique that will allow you to stop these unwanted thoughts, and the one I suggest is to simply use other thoughts to overpower the original one. This makes sense, because the only thing that can ever stop one thought is another thought. The key here is to make this second thought a positive one. Play around with thoughts – use anything that works and overpowers that original and unpleasant 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.
Use these 3 steps to quickly put a stop to your obsessive thoughts and your panic attacks.