01/21/2025
"Anticipatory stress is a feeling of stress that arises from anticipating a difficult or unpredictable event in the future. It can involve a sense of lack of control and can negatively impact emotional well-being and cognitive performance."
It can help to 🛑 stop, pause and 🤔 think about what is ACTUALLY happening v. what your mind 🧠 is telling you is GOING to happen or what you have already decided is going to happen. We incorporate thinking into this when we focus on today, on what we have control over which is both nothing and a lot. "Huh?" 🤷♀️ Essentially, you have but there are a lot of little things you can do daily that are of your choosing; getting up, showering 🚿, going to work, eating, exercising, etc... all conscious decisions you have control over. When you think (not feel, this is also a significant difference) that you have limited control over your current situation and thus your future, please of your reality first, before you let take over & potentially cause you to lose site of the facts. You miss out on so much, worrying😟 about things that haven't happened and may never come to pass. In addition, things that you have no control over; if the outcome is going to be the same in a given situation whether you worry about it or not, consider that maybe worrying is a . Maybe put your time and energy into something that you have control over; YOU.
