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Mindfulness Daily Check-In October 19, 2018

User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 October 19th, 2018

HAPPY FRIDAY COMMUNITY laugh

What is a worry script?

A worry script is like a journal entry, where you write about your worry, and what you are afraid will happen.

Writing a daily worry script will help you to experience the negative emotions associated with your fears and worries, rather than avoid them. Although this will feel uncomfortable at first, research shows us that when you face your fears in this way, your anxiety and worries will go down over time.

• Your worry script should be about the worst-case scenario for one of your worries.

• Your script should be vivid and visual. That is, it should include the five senses as much as possible (touch, taste, sight, smell, hearing), as well as your feelings and reactions

Remember that this exercise is designed to help you get over your worries and anxiety in the long-term. When it comes to anxiety, in order to get a long-term gain you will always experience some short-term pain.

• Write a new worry script every day. It should be about the same subject, for example a loved one being in a car accident, but you can go deeper into your feelings and reactions each time. For example, in one script you might write about how the loss of a loved one would affect your family, or you might write about your fears for the future after the loss of a loved one.

• Expect to write about the same worry topic for 30 minutes every day for two weeks.

Just writing about something bad will not make it happen! Otherwise we could just write about having millions of dollars and would be rich soon.

If you write out your worry script every day for two weeks, you will find that you spend less time and energy worrying about fears. However, this does not mean that you dont care about them. It simply means that you dont spend hours worrying about it every day.

Would be nice to hear what you people think about this.

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User Profile: soulsings
soulsings October 19th, 2018

@amiablePeace77 this is a great way to vent and give voice to the thoughts without acting on them.

Another kind of journal you have two sides, the anxiety thought and the reality thought so you have some kind of balance and you do not get hung up on changing the thought but reinterpreting it.

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User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 OP October 19th, 2018

@soulsings

thanks for checking in. I find too that reinterpretation of a thought is more helpful. Happy weekend smiley

User Profile: RumpleSteeleSkin
RumpleSteeleSkin October 19th, 2018

@soulsings

Hey Souls I really do like this thought. How ever when I did this writing and long ago I had many notebooks labeled for certain things. At that time I was so unbalanced it was recommended this way. For 60 days I was to fill those note books up, never bring those things into therapy. It was to teach me to be ok with certain feelings/thoughts without no one to talk with at that immediate time. I was teaching myself it was ok to sit being uncomfie over a thought or feeling WITHOUT needing someone there to listen or for comfort. Yes this might sound extreme to some. But dealing with BPD back then it was discipline mostly and learning not to react as well.

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User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 OP October 22nd, 2018

@RumpleSteeleSkin

Rumple, I find it amazing that you learned to just be okay with not feeling okay at a particular moment. This is maybe the best way to overcome any "tough" times, knowing they come, knowing they go and also use all tools we have to "sit them out".

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User Profile: RumpleSteeleSkin
RumpleSteeleSkin October 22nd, 2018

@amiablePeace77

I still have not aced this totally, but I am at times better at my reactions-

mindfulness really does help this process out

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User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 OP October 23rd, 2018

@RumpleSteeleSkin

i think more practise will help me too, practising to be mindful

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User Profile: RumpleSteeleSkin
RumpleSteeleSkin October 23rd, 2018

@amiablePeace77

Me too Peaceheart

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User Profile: goldentown96
goldentown96 October 19th, 2018

@amiablePeace77

I didn't think about keeping a worry journal because I didn't like the thought about focusing on negatives, but I will try this. It's good to get things off one's chest instead of ruminating. The other plus is it's cheaper than therapy! I will try this along with Soul's excellent idea of putting thing in perspective. Thank you!

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User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 OP October 19th, 2018

@goldentown96

I hope it will work for you and yes Soul has always good and very helpful ideas.

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User Profile: GustyOne4U
GustyOne4U October 20th, 2018

i mentioned something that had been troubling me to my eye doctor, i didn't feel i could tell anyone, and it just came out. after a little while, he told me something that he had on his mind, that he felt he couldn't talk about either. we bonded.

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User Profile: RumpleSteeleSkin
RumpleSteeleSkin October 20th, 2018

@GustyOne4U

oh wow Gusty really that is awesomehearthugs

User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 OP October 22nd, 2018

@GustyOne4U

Sometimes we look for the right moment, right person for a long time and then when not expecting anything the best situation is unfolding. So glad you had that kind of bonding experience and could help each other. <3

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User Profile: MicroscopicMuse
MicroscopicMuse October 20th, 2018

I like to keep a worry journal about times, places, people, and activities. I like to keep one because I can see what my pattern are.

@amiablePeace77

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User Profile: amiablePeace77
amiablePeace77 OP October 22nd, 2018

@MicroscopicMuse

That makes a lot of sense and is surely very helpful yes

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