6 Magic words that stop anxiety | Mel Robbins #Shorts

anxiety is is literally nothing more

than you thinking about something in the

future and thinking about it in a manner

where it starts to sound an alarm in

your body first of all if you catch

yourself worrying if you catch yourself

out in the future catastrophizing if you

catch yourself in that what if this what

if that if you let your thoughts spin it

will spin you out of control and then

you're going to start to feel anxious

and so you want to count backwards 5 4 3

2 1 and one of the best most effective

things you can insert as a different

pattern is this what if it all works out

what if it all works out what if I get

on this plane and even though it's bumpy

it still lands and it all works out

because you can't argue with that if you

can stabilize your thoughts your body

settles down and it doesn't escalate so

you're going to interrupt the worry 543

21 and then you insert something else

you can also say this moment will pass

you can say I can handle this but you've

got to interrupt those thoughts and

insert something else