Caroline Cavanagh

Mindset Flip: How to Transform Negative Into Positive | Anxiety Specialist | @caroline-cavanagh

29 Oct 2025 · 0 min

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Anxiety specialist Caroline Cavanagh teaches a technique called "flip it": when you catch yourself asking "What if I fail?" ask the opposite instead, like "What if I pass?" The mind follows the direction of the question you ask it, so flipping negative questions to positive ones interrupts catastrophic thinking and steers you toward constructive outcomes.

Your mind will answer whatever question you give it. So if you give it a negative question, it will head off down catastrophe aisle very, very quickly. Whereas if you flip it into something positive, it will equally go down that road. So flip it is a very, uh, simple technique of just saying, well, what if it doesn't? What if you fail my exams? What if you pass them? What if I'm the first one to the party? What if you're not? So it's just giving the opposite.

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