Your Mind is Like a Muscle | @caroline-cavanagh | Anxiety Specialist

10 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Caroline Cavanagh uses a gym analogy to explain how your mind works like a muscle. Focusing repeatedly on negative thoughts strengthens that mental pathway, while neglecting positive ones lets it weaken. You can deliberately train your mind toward positive ideas the same way you'd build a specific muscle at the gym.

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Your mind is very much like a muscle. So if you went in the gym and you did lots of bicep curls, you'd get strong biceps. With your mental muscle, if you focus on negative things, you became very strongly negatively oriented. But you could also in the gym do tricep dips, which builds up the tricep muscle. So if you focus on positive things, you start to build up that positive muscle, and when you build on that positive muscle more, The negative one then atrophies. So just choose which one of those muscles do you want to stretch, because that will really change how you feel.