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- Postponing Your Worries
- Agree to pay attention to your worries.
- Chose a specific time in the future when you will return to them.
- As the time arrives, either start obsessing or consider postponing the worries to another specific time. Whenever possible choose to postpone.
- Postponing Your Worries
- Agree to pay attention to your worries.
- Chose a specific time in the future when you will return to them.
- As the time arrives, either start obsessing or consider postponing the worries to another specific time. Whenever possible choose to postpone.
- Use Paradox to react to your Physical Symptoms
- Notice your most dominant physical symptom. Say to yourself.” I would like to take control of this feeling by making it stronger”.
- Attempt to increase the symptom.
- Breath gently
- Don’t get trapped in worry or hopeless comments.
- Here’s a thought?”
- Is this an old thought? Have I heard this one before?
- Will I gain anything from listening to it again?
- What would happen if I believed this thought?
- Create Worry Time.
- Set aside a daily worry time of 5 minutes.
- Spend this entire time thinking only about your worries regarding the flight.
- Do not think about positive alternatives
- Try to become as anxious as possible during the exercise.
- Continue to the end of the worry time even if you run out of ideas, repeat the same worries over again.
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