Weekly Prompt #2: What helps shift your mind from anxious thoughts?
Hello everyone, I hope you are all being easy on yourself this week.
Last week we discussed What worries tend to dominate your thoughts? Thank you to all who participated and shared their thoughts for discussion. I enjoyed them. I hope you all did too. If you didn't share yours, please share them here and I look forward to reading and discussing them with you.
This week's prompt: What helps shift your mind from anxious thoughts?
Anxiety can be awful and difficult to process but if there is anything that helps you shift your mind from anxious thoughts, what are they?
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@ASilentObserver any sort of disraction : books, movies, music, concersations, videos or just reminding myself I am safe
@bubbleGrapefruit8113 I meant conversation)
@bubbleGrapefruit8113 These distractions and moments of comfort seem to help bring you peace when anxiety fills your mind. You have developed a compassion for yourself and know your own needs. There are always ways to ease suffering, even on difficult days. We are all here with you to listen to and support.
@ASilentObserver
I listens to music and and I care for my plants and crytsals but if neither of those availible i just close my eyes for a bit and block out sound around me
@ASilentObserver knowing the unknown 'let there be light'. If something's unknown it's easy to be scared - not knowing what is happening or what to do. When it becomes known, then it's less of a worry.
Music is my number one outlet. Helps me to center myself as well as serves as a reminder that other people, to a degree, share my mental/emotional state at some point. Video games is my second thing. For some reason, being in an imaginary world that I literally control a character that is me really helps me shift my thoughts from bad to okay. I really find them peaceful and entertaining.
I have to set out regular times to stop and breathe often with meditation and grounding. Normally 5 or more times a day.
@ASilentObserver
For me, and I hope this isn’t taken the wrong way but I have always been considered “attractive” well at least in my hometown according to their standards. Beauty is always different everywhere. But with that comes a lot of expectation that when you look a certain way, you’re expected to be perfect and not have any issues. It’s like in a way you’re not human, more like a robot and no one considers that you are human just like them and that life is not perfect. So when I avoid eye contact or avoid people or don’t speak, it is automatically because I’m mean or stuck up or think I’m better than everyone when really inside I’m fighting inside of myself to sit here and be normal, sweating through my shirt. Trying not to make a mistake. And it is with these expectations that make me even more anxious. I wish people would just see me as human. Because that’s what I am, regardless of what I look like it’s the inside that matters but I’m so nervous that it’s hard for me to show up and be myself so most people don’t like me. Especially other girls.
