The Anxiety Toolkit: Strategies for Fine-Tuning Your Mind and Moving Past Your Stuck Points, by Alice Boyes

Category: Mindset

Ideas I found interesting:

Stress can only be harmful if you believe it’s harmful.

Even if you achieve only intermittent reinforcement – that is, you experience success only sometimes – having some success will make your behavior more resilient.

Don’t trust your memory. You might be ruminating about something fictional or at least magnified. This also applies to ruminating about how others perceive you; you may just be mind reading based on a biased memory of interactions. Ruminating thoughts should be based on facts.

When having criticizing thoughts substitute ‘should’ with ‘prefer’. Defining your options relieves some of the stress of rumination. Ask yourself questions as a way to unclog stuck thinking.

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