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Are you BLOCKING your anxiety?

Karen Britter — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:09:40 +0000

Are you BLOCKING your anxiety?

I know a lot of people who say they don’t suffer with anxiety, but they do!

If they aren’t having a full-blown panic attack in the middle of the supermarket, they don’t recognise the signs.

But I do.

The 20 a day smoker.
The early hours most nights gamer.
The bottle of wine a nighter.
The midnight snacker.

These are all signs of anxiety and all signs’ people brush off or ignore.

So, what can you do about it?

95% of our daily life is run on auto pilot we do the same routines, day in day out.

Our brains like routine they like familiarity so unless you consciously start to question what is happening and why, you will continue to do this.

So, the first step is to recognise you ARE doing it!

The second is to ask yourself when you are doing it, is it every day or only workdays for example?

The third is to ask yourself WHY, what is this habit doing for you? What is it distracting you from? Numbing you from? Comforting you from?

The fourth is to look for how you can reduce or stop the need to do it, how you can change your WHY?

And if it’s something you can’t change, at least for the moment, look for healthier ways to distract yourself until you can, like go for a walk, call a good friend, do some exercise.

Good luck!

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Think happy = be happy

Karen Britter — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 09:16:12 +0000

Bruce Lipton (former US stem cell biologist and now international speaker) recently posted.

“Change your perceptions, change your environment, change your life.”

This post very much reminded me of the work I do in my therapy room. I help people change their anxious thought patterns into happy ones.

A lot of us develop unhelpful thought patterns from a very early age. This can lead to both mind & body issues later in life.

As humans it is estimated we have up to 60,000 thoughts per day of which 98% are EXACTLY the same thoughts as we had the day before!

And what’s more, 80% of these are NEGATIVE thoughts so that’s an average of 48,000 negative thoughts a day.

48,000 NEGATIVE THOUGHTS EVERY SINGLE DAY!!

If this was a friend criticising you 48,000 times a day, would you carry on being their friend? Would you distance yourself? Break all ties? Find some friends that are kinder to you? Of course you would.

But you can’t distance yourself or break all ties from you, BUT you can be kinder to yourself.

So change your perception.

And if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Think anxious = be anxious. Think happy = be happy.

If you would like some help to achieve this, book a call and we’ll see if I can help you too.

https://www.karenbrittertherapies.com/

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