
Can’t stop worrying? Try my pink elephant technique
From time to time, we all worry. Right? Sometimes however, our
worry-thoughts just keep spinning and spinning in spite of our best intentions
to stop. It’s as if worrying has a mind of its own. This isn’t far from the
truth. Insecurity does have a voice; it’s the hand-wringing, what-iffing voice
of chaos. If we passively yield to that voice, we do become powerless.
In this Self-Coaching episode, I suggest my simple, “pink elephant”
technique, that will show you how to interrupt the flow of worrisome
ruminations, proving that when it comes to worrying, we do have a choice. We
can choose to step apart from reflexive, neurotic worry-thinking and replace it
with a more moderate mature voice that deals with life’s facts rather than our
insecurity-driven fictions. Think “pink