Obsessive thoughts are the real cause of almost all your anxiety. Every single time you’ve had severe anxiety it started with an obsessive thought, and it spiralled out of control and eventually became the severe anxiety you felt or the panic attack you had.
You might be thinking that this isn’t how anxiety works with you and that obsessive thoughts aren’t to blame, and if that’s the situation I’d like you to start paying attention to your own anxiety and to what you’re feeling and thinking right before it gets out of control.
I think you’ll be amazed to learn that obsessive thoughts are at the centre of your panic and anxiety. The reason I’m so sure about this is because I’ve interacted with literally hundreds of people who are in exactly your position, plus I also experienced these same problems for myself for almost two decades.
Sadly, if you live with any anxiety disorder, it’s not possible to simply stop having an obsessive thought without thinking about it, like people who are naturally calm can. So the answer lies in uncovering ways to intentionally end all these damaging thoughts before they go on to be obsessive thoughts.
I’m about to give you a brief, three-step plan of attack which you can start using right now to stop the thoughts you have turning into the obsessive thoughts that cause all your problems. Okay, here we go:
First Step: This step is all about you retraining your brain so that it can easily spot harmful thoughts the moment they start. This also includes small thoughts that might seem harmless, but these have the potential to grow and get out of control, so consider these small ones just as important as the bigger ones.
Step #2: People with no anxiety problems drop a harmful or negative thought after a few seconds, and that’s why it doesn’t cause them anxiety. You need to become like them. And since the only way to stop one thought is by having ANOTHER thought, you need to think something else as soon as you detect any of these harmful thoughts. What should you think of? Anything – whatever it takes to stop that original and harmless thought.
Okay, step three is to make this new positive way of thinking a habit that happens automatically, just as your harmful thoughts are happening automatically for you right now. The only way to make this happen is to think positive thoughts as often as possible. In time, your brain will automatically think these positive thoughts when your mind wanders, where once it would have gone immediately to the damaging thoughts you experience right now.
Start putting these 3 steps into action as soon as possible and your obsessive thoughts and panic-related problems will quickly be under control.