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by davebryand 2926 days ago
Meditation can help you get meta on the process so that you can watch yourself getting worried and recognize it as something that is of the mind. As you start to see the patterns on how worry develops in your mind, you can start to choose your response. Once you can choose your response, you can decide if you want to take action or if you want to let them go.

Once you are outside of the worry spiral and see it for what it is, you may find that not only do you not have to worry about these hypothetical situations, but that there is nothing at all to worry about in this single iteration that you're taking through the simulation.

EDIT: Highly recommend Transcendental Meditation. Here is some info on their anxiety results: https://www.tm.org/reduced-stress-and-anxiety

2 comments

Meditation has been extremely helpful for me. I am happy to talk about this if there is interest.
sooo second on that

plus doing sports like jogging, stretching; this helped me a lot to calm me down and get rid of mood swings