Ted in Your Head

How to Stop Catastrophizing and Cope – Episode 497

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Show Notes

Catastrophizing is a mental habit where your thoughts immediately jump to the worst-possible outcome. Instead of using your wonderful imagination to create what you want, you use it to magnify danger in your mind until it feels real and like it’s really going to happen. This can become a very bad habit and can be quite disruptive to your peace of mind and ability to feel in control. It’s also not a good strategy for attracting into our lives the things we do want. How do we stop the tendency to look into the future and see bad things happening (even though they’re unlikely to happen)?

In this episode Ted offers some concrete, actionable ways to interrupt these patterns and reduce the emotional impact of fearful thinking. If you are scaring yourself with visions of a frightful future, you owe it to yourself to check out this episode.

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