The Noise in Your Head

- Season 1

(2016)

When Anxiety generates unhelpful worries and obsessions - we'll call them "noise" - then Anxiety becomes a cunning and persuasive challenger. To take him on, you'll need an outcome picture, grit, trust and courage.

Anxiety wants to drag you down into the content of your worries. Don't get sucked into content. Instead, try living with doubt and uncertainty. You could even start to welcome the uncertainty. Crazy, right?

You must go toward the stuff that scares you, but action is not enough. Willingly choose to feel awkward, uncomfortable, and unsure. Talk to yourself. Give yourself instructions and motivating messages that help you purposely seek out what you want to avoid.

Ignore Anxiety's messages as you move toward your task. If that doesn't work, then try this on for size: Ask Anxiety to give you more of the thoughts and feelings that are scaring you. And then, as always, just turn your attention back to your task.

The game is simple: Score points against Anxiety and begin to win your life back.

For all of us, Anxiety is here to stay. Sometimes it can be incredibly helpful, signaling something worthy of our attention. And the rest of the time? Well, the rest is just noise. It's time to leave the noise behind.