Stop Imagining the Worst

If you find yourself imagining the worst case scenario, why is that happening? That's a situation where your mind is trying to say what haven't we thought about that could go wrong? Because it's trying to protect you. This happens a lot of cases in people who have had a lot of trauma, particularly in childhood. My wife was a great example. She would always be looking for the danger. So she had to recognize and pick up on the little signs that were coming that her father was about to explain blow and about to lose his temper. So she would always be trying to figure it out and then she would look for signs of it. So when that happens, you're going to then start to exaggerate because, okay, I know when this and this happens, he's going to get mad. But what if this happens? I've never seen that. I should be prepared for that. So it starts to imagine all of these things that could happen. Your mind is trying to figure out what would happen if this happens. It's a normal process of what your mind is trying to do, but it can actually ruin the way you're enjoying life in the present moment. If you experiencing yourself doing this and always thinking about the worst case scenarios, if you don't get that helped and you don't come up with a way to resolve that problem, you're going to create tremendous stress in your life. And we know what happens to people who have a lot of stress. It's going to ruin relationships, it's going to affect your immune system. So if you don't resolve it, it will affect your health, guaranteed.