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Condition: you are stressed Evaluation: this is bad Response: try harder not to be stressed (to relax) Result: trying adds stress, so you are now more stressed To break the cycle, notice that you are stressed, assert that you don’t want to be, then do nothing about it
Anything that you try to do is merely turning the thing you want to get rid of back onto itself, strengthening it, but you don’t see this. In the absence of knowing the mental move associated with ‘stopping doing something you are already doing’, nothing is the next best option.
I talk about the logic behind this is more detail in here https://t.co/axc4CmgSp6
"But surely I have to do something??" Nope. The part of you that thinks that is itself the problem. We want to get that bit out of the way. There's an element of trust here. Some part of you knows what is needed, it's just not the part that you think of as you.