175 // What-If Thoughts

The Mindful Kind

Rachael Kable

Mindfulness, Mindful, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Inspiration

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Hello and welcome to episode 175 of The Mindful Kind podcast.

This episode was inspired by an episode of the Australian television show, "You Can't Ask That".

In this episode, you'll hear about my own experiences with what-if thoughts and a simple 4-step process for coping with these types of thoughts.

Step 1: Acknowledge the what-if thought

Step 2: Practise mindfulness

Step 3: Repeat step 1 and 2

Step 4: Seek good quality support

Don't forget to find me on Facebook and Instagram by searching for Rachael Kable.

Thank you for listening and I hope you have a wonderful week, Mindful Kind.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind.
0:07.5	I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey
0:12.3	and inspire you to create your own.
0:14.9	Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness,
0:19.7	from my personal experiences to useful tools and different
0:23.6	mindful techniques.
0:31.4	Hello and welcome to episode 175 of the Mindful Kind podcast. I'm really excited about this episode. It feels so meaningful to be
0:42.0	talking about this topic. I don't know why it just really resonated with me and I've been
0:47.2	looking forward to talking about this ever since the idea came up. So my fiancé deck and I were
0:53.4	watching this TV show the other night. It's called
0:56.5	You Can't Ask That and it's on the ABC here in Australia. Basically the show features
1:02.6	marginalised or misunderstood Australians and asks them quite confronting or personal questions.
1:09.8	I think it's great because it gives the watcher a real
1:12.4	chance to understand more about other people and develop greater awareness or understanding.
1:19.5	Anyway, Dec and I were watching an episode the other night about Australians who have survived
1:24.1	disasters like a flood or a terrorist act or a cyclone. One of the questions was
1:31.2	how bad did it mess you up? And a few of the people being interviewed talked about the what-if
1:37.0	thoughts they had. One woman said the what-ifs drove her wild. And Dex said, wouldn't that be a great
1:43.7	thing to talk about on the podcast?
1:45.5	And basically, I haven't been able to stop thinking about it.
1:49.4	Because what if is kind of like the opposite of mindfulness, but it's such an easy thing to fall into and it's something I used to do all the time.
1:58.2	I still do it now, but I can usually recognise it and practice mindfulness,
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