QUESTION:
I am
practicing techniques from Brainswitch.
I am determined to not give in this time. The first big depressed feelings came
on Saturday (but there was the build up of negative thinking, and self doubt,
and worrying when I’d get the next hit. I was so self-focused on all my fears).
So, I immediately lose my appetite and you know , all the familiar symptoms
start returning and I think "CRAP...I may not survive this one! Why can't
I be like other people? What if I am not strong enough to derail this! Great
there goes sleeping!"?
ANSWER:
You have made a wonderful start really. To be self-aware that you are
being self-focused is the very way out of self-focus.
And never forget, you are not the only one who suffers negative thinking
and depression. You are in the company of millions of people who struggle with
the same exact things that you describe.
But remember as well there are also people who have been able to pull
themselves out of being a passive prisoner of their own thinking and have proactively taken
charge of their thinking enough so they can make a good day out of a bad start
by insisting on taking the positive fork in the road as soon as they realize
they are on the negative highway of thinking.
One exercise is to actually visualize a sign up ahead—POSITIVE THINKING
FORK JUST AHEAD. And then take it. A. B. Curtiss
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