Control Negative Thoughts: Letting Go | @caroline-cavanagh | Anxiety Specialist

We all have negative thoughts, let's not pretend, but it's like a car. You can park it in the space or you can reverse it out and bring another one in. We can. And one of the things that I do in audiences, again in a controlled environment, is to say, okay, what for you is the worst possible thing that could happen? So for me, it would be getting that phone call to say One of your children has just been in a fatal car accident. And even as I'm saying this, I can feel my tummy go— Yeah, but I know it's a thought, and I know I was about to put that thought into my head, and it still has an impact on me physiologically. But then you can say to them, okay, what's the best ever thing? Imagine being on, for me, a stunning beach with a gin and tonic. There's a theme here, isn't there? A gin and tonic in the hand, sun beating down on me, Enough money in the bank that I choose to work because I don't have to work. That's my utopia. And I can even feel my biology, my physiology changing with that thought. So don't tell me you can't control your thoughts because I've just told you to think of 2 things and you've done it and you've felt your physiology change. And that's when people go, oh yeah. Whatever you think creates your feelings. So if you want to feel differently, think differently.