Anxiety & Overthinking

Hello to a concerned client who has the strength to know how you want to recognize and challenge the way you think and interpret your world.

Remember you have some very good skills you have leveraged in the past. Yet when you feel overwhelmed with these intrusive overthinking thoughts, this leads to very intense anxiety. Yet you are doing the best you can but something has gotten in the way or is no longer working for you that questions how you behave and react to certain situations. The patterns you are choosing could be obstacles you have created in your daily interactions and relationships that cause these these life changing emotions in your journey and has you second guessing every situation repeatedly.

This could lead to feeling stuck which leads to shut down in your thinking process of your mind and the ability to underreact. Your brain will try to problem solve with the same previous reaction you have utilized in the past, yet you notice you are again facing similar situations. You then interpret with negative thoughts which makes you feel drained from the anxiety and overthinking which you consciously feel it is time for a constructive change. 

I can see how you want to slow down your thinking process and put distance or space to your thoughts and learn other ways to interpret your experiences. Since you have mentioned that you have not been able to do things or go places and cancel events shows that you are choosing those unfortunate negative thoughts which convince you not to go hoping that avoiding the situation, will ease the pain and hopefully these negative thoughts to go away.

The worrying comes back and It takes conscious focused planning to think how you will interpret new situations and react to the world by not allowing overthinking which leads to the painful emotions and withdrawal which causes more anxiety  What is more perplexing is that these mind thoughts do not let you move forward to a more fulfilling life and enjoying those around you who count and this you do deserve.

There are several ways to work on this with mindful thinking by seeing the next thought which sometimes freaks you out and writing the thought down on paper. This releases those pent up feelings and a willingness to seeing the thought or thoughts. First put some space with gentleness to your thoughts do not label them or the discomfort that comes with it. You can start by noticing, naming, pause, explore, choose and act to return to calmness. Allow the struggle and sit with it for a minute, then remind yourself it can not harm you, your thoughts can change name, reframing those intense thoughts.

You are a good person deserving new stories in your next life chapter. Stay gentle with your stories put those positive thoughts in your life. Willingness is another way to say I deserve and will show you what you can focus on and allow in your life. Not allowing these distorted thoughts of judging, criticizing or comparing yourself causes less stress and is something that most people have which is normal.

You can learn to thought-stop and not allow your emotions to hurt you since thoughts can not harm you, yet can stop you from moving ahead in your life. What you pay attention to is what you will allow yourself to feel and experience with positive repeated thinking and writing it down to help remind you in your daily events that you deserve all the good that comes to you.

I can assist you with the slow purposeful gentle guidance with ways to examine those thoughts. This will help you start to reframe and not allow pop ups of negative thoughts by introducing new and effective thought processing.  I wish you well in your life journey. Thank you for your patience.