The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
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The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
Serenity Prayer: God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference.
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
with thoughts (especially our own thoughts), it’s easy to get fooled into taking the apparent content of the thought as the precise meaning of the thought.
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
there’s always something to worry about, because we can worry about any possibility we can imagine. We don’t need realistic danger to worry.
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
Chronic worry doesn’t alert you to problems that need solving. It interferes with problem solving. If you experience chronic worry, your attention is focused on unlikely hypothetical future disasters, rather than current situations that require a solution. Chronic worries don’t get solved because there really isn’t anything to solve. The worry just
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research on the subject of thought suppression2 clearly shows that the main effect of thought suppression is a resurgence of the thoughts
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
in fact the thought is simply an expression of nervousness
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
if you create the habit of humoring your worrisome thoughts, you can increasingly pass over the invitation to argue without becoming embroiled or upset. You can play with the thoughts, rather than work against them.
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
you experience more worry when you’re not so busy,
David Carbonell • The Worry Trick: How Your Brain Tricks You into Expecting the Worst and What You Can Do About It
what you worry about, the specific content of your worrisome thoughts, isn’t usually all that important. What’s most important is how you relate to your worrisome thoughts, whatever their content may be.