Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your

anxiety.

Free your mind from all or nothing thinking.

All or nothing thinking is the result of a stress mind on autopilot.

Instead of thinking about given situations and making choices in how we respond,

the unattended mind will see things as everything or nothing, black or white.

Black words can make life difficult.

Black words are negative and rigid. Words like never, terrible and impossible are key examples.

I'll never be any good at dot dot dot dot. And so it is with this kind of self-talk you can fail at anything fast and white words aren't much better

one example of a white word that's likely to cause trouble is perfect. The old saying tells us that nobody is, so why put ourselves

through the stress of expecting anyone or anything to be perfect?

Mixing things up makes gray. Gray thinking gives us some freedom and flexibility in our thinking.

It opens our minds to possibilities and it's a much easier going way to frame things.

You can still really enjoy an event that had a minor hic-up and was therefore not perfect.

You can still love someone and appreciate their good qualities,

even though they may have some minor flaws here and there.

You can be an organized person and forget a birthday.

You can be a loving parent and get driven nuts by your kids sometimes.

You can be a musician who plays the odd bad note, an artist

who paints the occasional dirt, and a highly intelligent individual who makes mistakes. A dash of gray gives perspective. How will you

mix some into your day? Thank you're

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