Don’t you hate the way your brain so quickly goes to “what if” thinking? What if this happens, or what if that happens? Or, I’d better shift to Plan B just in case “what if” happens, or I’d better not do such and such because “what if” might happen. Ugh. Did you know that every time your brain goes to “what if” thinking, you’re increasing your anxiety and stress? That’s because every “what if” is usually your brain thinking up some disaster scenario. Stop for a minute and ask yourself when one of your “what if’s” actually did happen! Probably never! Things usually don’t turn out in all the negative ways we imagine, do they? Or if they don’t turn out perfectly, we always have a way of finding another path. And oftentimes, things work out even better than we imagined. But that’s easy to say, isn’t it? I know […]
