How to Stop Worrying

When you're not paying attention your brain shifts from being a decision maker to just kind of spinning things on autopilot and one of your habits is worrying. The second you wake up and you notice holy cow I'm talking some negative garbage to myself right now 5 4 3 2 1 works because of the counting. We know based on research the positive thinking alone not effective in some instances trying to force yourself to think positive can actually make the worries worse. So we have to basically interrupt it and turn off the TV and then turn it back on with the prefrontal cortex awakened so the counting is essential.