Cure Panic Attacks With Positive Thinking
Treating generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), despite being hard, can be successful. To be successful, though, you need to stick to a few simple guidelines. The first guideline you need to stick to is to surround yourself with recovery. This is probably a new idea for you, but don’t worry – in a while I’ll explain what this concept involves, and you’ll see it’s not hard at all.
To get to grips with this new concept of surrounding yourself with recovery, you need to learn all about the opposite of what this is. The opposite to this is surrounding yourself with negativity. This includes all those things you do that are negative and inspired or controlled by your anxiety: hanging around other people with anxiety problems, spending time on anxiety forums and message boards, or studying books that focus on living with anxiety.
These things cause your mind to stay locked onto your anxiety disorder. Worse still, you’ll begin to feel the weight of other people’s anxiety problems as well, simply by spending time reading about or listening to their own stories of anxiety. This is “surrounding yourself with negativity,” and it can be extremely damaging. In some cases, it can completely stop your progress towards overcoming your anxiety related problems.
So if that’s “surrounding yourself with negativity,” what’s “surrounding yourself with recovery” and how is it different? It’s essentially avoiding everything that I outlined a moment ago: so stop talking to others who are suffering with anxiety right now, stop visiting online forums that focus solely on anxiety, and stop reading books that focus on your anxiety as it is right now.
Guess what? If you can stop doing these few things, you’ll no longer be surrounding yourself with negativity. So that’s half the battle won. But how do you then move onto surrounding yourself with recovery? The answer, thankfully, is simple: you take everything you’ve been doing until this point, and you begin doing the opposite.
Here’s how to do that: don’t hang out with people with anxiety, hang out with people who had anxiety in the past but got over it. Don’t hang out on message boards with people who have anxiety, hang out on message boards with people who had anxiety in the past and got over it. Don’t read books about people who have anxiety, read books about people who had anxiety in the past but got over it.
Rather than studying books that focus on how to stop your anxiety, choose books that were written by people who genuinely lived with the problems themselves and found a way to overcome it. This fool proof approach will quickly lead you away from surrounding yourself with negativity and lead you towards surrounding yourself with recovery. Very quickly indeed you’ll be in much better mental shape.
Most of us tend to get what we spend most of our time thinking about and focusing on. So when you start spending your time on recovery instead of the negative things, you can’t help but start moving directly towards your goal of an anxiety free life.