What does retraining your brain have to do with anxiety? Everything! Your brain is telling your body that you are anxious. There are three parts of your brain that are involved when you have anxiety. The brain stem (survival brain), your limbic system (emotional brain) and your frontal lobe (thinking brain). What does each one control?
Survival Brain Emotional Brain Thinking Brain
Heart Rate Regulates Your Emotions Communication Processing
Breath -Reading, Writing, Talking
Body Temperature and Listening
Sleep/Wake Cycle Critical Thinking
Movement Problem Solving
Does this sound familiar? Racing heart, rapid breathing, hot, not sleeping, restless legs, emotional, no focus, can't make rational thoughts and decisions. That is your brain telling all of those things to go into overdrive.
HOW CAN YOU RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN TO HELP ANXIETY?
~Identify the dysfunctional thoughts and label them as dysfunctional. Thoughts about things that you cannot change, or that really do not matter but your brain says they do.
~Now that those thought are labeled dysfunctional, change your view on those thoughts. These thoughts are false and they need to go.
~Focus on productive mental processes and activity to gain control of your thoughts. Art is a good way to refocus from the false thoughts to good thoughts.
Repeat these three steps for as many false/negative thoughts you have to retrain your brain into getting rid of the false and letting in the true and positive thoughts.
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