Transcript of 6 Magic words that stop anxiety | Mel Robbins #Shorts

Anxiety 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. You want to count backwards, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. 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 You're going to interrupt the worry, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 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.