How to reduce anxiety by changing thoughts about the past or future - in the previous post, in short: when thinking about the past, tell your limbic system - that’s what I wanted. It doesn’t matter whether you wanted or didn’t want to, but the limbic brain will calm down and will not cortisolize and drain you here and now. When you have catastrophic thoughts about the future, say: I don’t know, we’ll see. People also often cause anxiety and reinforce it with questions: What are the causes of the problem? When will this all end? What if it doesn't end? Many have asked themselves these or similar questions, which lead to even greater problems, anxiety, panic, and hypochondria. This is pathological doubt, a search for reassurance. To get rid of doubt, you need to give up searching for an answer. For example, one can never say unambiguously: Am I mentally normal or not? Do I have cancer or am at risk of cancer? Those who doubt and think about it all the time, control their reactions, can bring themselves to a state of abnormality. Most problems arise from the questions we ask ourselves, Kant wrote. Harmful, toxic questions. Therefore, if we ask ourselves other questions, or the right questions, they will lead to solving the problem. And I will also ask the question: if you have a problem and you continue to do everything in the same spirit, the situation can improve or it can worsen? If a behavior does not lead to improvement, it needs to be changed. Try a different strategy. If the search for the causes of the problem does not lead to success, you need to stop looking. What it means to conquer doubt is not to fight it. When in doubt, we look for an unambiguous, satisfying answer about the cause of the problem. To overcome doubt, you need to give up looking for an answer, give up looking for guarantees. There are still no guarantees, and the search for guarantees leads to real problems. Do not enter into a mental discussion, but simply observe what your brain throws at you, how it throws you out of balance. Wait for the anxiety to build up and do not interfere, actively observe. Don’t resist or avoid obsessive thoughts, just let them be and they will begin to dissipate and weaken. I will teach you how to cope with PA, fears and obsessive thoughts. Sleep disorder. Anxiety and depression. Sign up for an online session: whatsapp, telegram +351964396902