231. Dealing with anxious and stressful thoughts in 5 steps
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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On this episode I take you through a five step process to help you get your anxious or spiralling thoughts under control, so your emotions don't end up controlling you and your day.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my beautiful beans and welcome to the episode of today. So today's episode, I'm going to be |
| 0:06.0 | talking about dealing with feelings of anxiety. This is a huge one. This is one that I feel like |
| 0:13.3 | we can all get something out of, whether you're someone that consciously has anxious and |
| 0:19.3 | stressful thoughts, ruminating all the time, spiraling thoughts, or whether you're someone that consciously has anxious and stressful thoughts ruminating all the time, spiraling thoughts, |
| 0:22.9 | or whether you're someone that's, you know, every so often, occasionally you get plagued with these kind of intrusive thoughts or stressful thoughts or really anxious thoughts. |
| 0:34.6 | So I'm going to be going through a whole bunch of steps. |
| 0:36.9 | I think it's |
| 0:37.6 | around five steps. Let's say how we go. And I'm going to help you walk yourself through all these |
| 0:45.5 | thoughts and you're going to find some tools that are going to help you deal with these thoughts |
| 0:51.1 | because it's not about how to forget about them, how to suppress them, |
| 0:54.9 | it's about how to approach them in the most productive way possible in a way that you're still |
| 0:59.5 | paying attention to what needs attention, but you're also not letting it consume your life |
| 1:04.8 | because you can't avoid stress or drama in your life. |
| 1:09.7 | That's just not possible, you know, unless you live |
| 1:11.8 | in a rock and then you're probably just going to be, not in a rock, but under a rock, and then you're |
| 1:15.9 | probably just going to be extremely unfulfilled. So with life comes anxiety and stress and situations |
| 1:22.0 | that don't go your way. But what you want to aim to achieve or what you want to train yourself up to do is to be able |
| 1:29.1 | to have these things occur, be able to kind of compartmentalize them and have them be |
| 1:35.5 | proportionate to the rest of your life. And what I mean by proportionate is sometimes |
| 1:40.6 | there'll be one stressor and we let it take over every aspect of our life our full |
| 1:46.6 | attention we think about it all the time we can't enjoy our social time we can't enjoy our time with |
| 1:51.3 | our family or our partners we're stressed at work we're stressed you know it's just it's all |
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