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Your past thoughts are about issues that are no longer true. That bad
experience occurred yesterday (in the past) and is over. It's at peace and
exists solely in your brain. Now is a fresh day, a better day, and fretting about
the past simply dooms us in the here and now. It’s how you process it now
that makes a difference.
You are a thought-producing machine. When you recognize this, you are
able to start to slow your thoughts down and let your anxieties and fears rest.
Your automatic damaging thoughts are only thoughts: they're not real.
Our inclination is to think a bit much and to paralyze ourselves with our
contemplations. We have a choice: recognize what we're doing to ourselves,
get up, find a distraction, and do something interesting (favorable).
Happy individuals understand that to enjoy life you live it -- you don’t think
about it.
Watch a roomful of preschool youngsters. They're enjoying life as they're
centered on the moment and are not thinking of it. They're immersed and
engaged in living.
Analysis produces paralysis.
Anxiety killing you? Quit thinking about it, take that step, and simply do it.
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