I just remembered something that happened to me last year that I wanted to share. I started worrying about a situation that happened to me and my old habits kicked in. I started visualizing the situation turning out really bad. Then I noticed that my heart was pounding faster, my breathing was becoming shallow, and I was really feeling a sense of dread. My thoughts were causing me to go into the fight or flight response. When I realized what was happening to me I stopped myself. I took a deep breath and remembered how our thoughts can do this.
I then deliberately started to visualize the same situation with a positive outcome and I felt 100% better. My heart and breathing went back to normal and I felt calm / peaceful.
As it turned out the situation work out even better then what I deliberately visualized. If I did not stop myself and started visualizing this situation in a positive light, I would have spent the whole rest of the day and night worrying and obsessing about this one problem. When I used to get like that I did not get anything done, did not enjoy myself and usually had a problem falling asleep. That would have been such a waste of time, especially when nothing bad even happened.
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