Overcoming Intrusive ThoughtsIntrusive thoughts really are an absolute nightmare. It doesn't matter what sort of thoughts they are as they range depending on what your particular fear or anxiety is at the time. The only thing we really know when dealing with intrusive thoughts is that the more attention you pay them the worse they get. It really is horrible thinking about awful things and not being able to control them entering your mind. The more you think about them the worse the situation gets. Until all of a sudden you cannot think about anything else apart from those intrusive thoughts. Learning to shut your mind off and think positively about things is something which needs to be learned over time. But don't worry you are not alone and this is quite common to have these thoughts. It is just the way you are feeding them that causes all the problems. That is why I setup my newsletter to help. You can find out more about it in the video below. Watch the video below for my personal experience with intrusive thoughts.
The biggest problem I ever had with intrusive thoughts was with my family. I am really embarrassed to admit this but I believe that I am not the only person who has felt this way and therefore guess this is my way of helping others when coping with intrusive thoughts too. But when my first child was born - he had colic and used to cry consistently all the time and through the night. I was exhausted and with having a high powered job at the time it was very difficult to get on with life. I had a big breakdown and I started getting extremely irrational intrusive thoughts that I wanted to hurt my family. How could this be? I am one of the most caring people on the planet and knew that I wouldn't ever hurt them. But the thoughts just went on and on. The doctor didn't really listen to me and I would just think about it all the time. So the fear then became the fear in itself.
Feeding intrusive thoughtsThe problem is when you have anxiety and intrusive thoughts then the anxiety tends to kick in at the same time. Here is what happens In this case it is the "fight mechanism" that kicks in. You are constantly thinking that you will "hurt your family" which is your body telling you to fight back against the intrusive thoughts that you are getting. The same could be that the "flight" mechanism would kick in too and that you would take off first rather than hurting your family. Which is probably what would happen or your anxiety would stop before you ended up doing anything disastrous about it. I was reading a great book the other day about dealing with intrusive thoughts and what it taught me was that we all have them. It is just most people do not feed them. When you have anxiety you tend to feed the thoughts because you are in a general state of fear. Fear promotes fear and therefore the anxiety gets worse. What they were also saying is that if you plugged our minds into a stereo and sat everyone in a room together that everyone would think that everyone else was mad!!!!!!!!!!!! This is just so true it is unreal.
A Natural Technique To Help Stop Panic Attacks and General Anxiety Fast Panic Away is a proven method to deal with panic attacks and anxiety. Safely and naturally without any need for medication If you are suffering from Panic, Anxiety Or Intrusive Thoughts Then You Should Find Out More at their official site http://panicaway.com A great book to help stop your intrusive thoughtsThe book anyway is called The Untethered Soul . You can get it at Amazon. It really opened my eyes to a lot of things about the way our minds think and how everyone else's thinks too. We really do not realise sometimes that anxiety and intrusive thoughts can be controlled. The problem being however that you when you are anxious it is difficult to concentrate on anything else but the anxiety. You will probably find this yourself. When you think "bad thoughts" then bad things do tend to happen. When you think "positive thoughts" then most things go well. This is purely just a twist in your mindset to make sure that you are filling your head with more good things than bad things. If you are finding that the intrusive thoughts are taking over, then you need to replace it with something more positive. It is not going to happen straight away and it will take time. You cannot just switch it off. If you don't have a passion in life whether it is playing sport or a hobby. Then take something up that you enjoy and can look forward too. Then when you are dealing with intrusive thoughts it should be a lot easier to get them out of your mind. I have a really big story to tell on panic attacks and intrusive thoughts and if you would like me to help you in your journey then sign up to my newsletter on the homepage and you will get some great tips from me to help you along the way. Further Reading How To Cure Social Anxiety
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