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Kjdfl kshfwe iwekljfklahdflsh fjlashfklwej. Do you know what that says? Me neither. But that\u2019s how an anxious brain feels sometimes. One intrusive thought makes its way in and suddenly it\u2019s like a pinball machine in your head. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if this? What if that? Your brain starts spiraling and thinking of so many potential scenarios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you ever seen the movie Inside Out 2? They do a good job of showing how at first, anxiety looks like your brain trying to protect you from potential harm, so you allow it and plan for all possible outcomes. Until it leads to an explosive spiral that torments your mind all day and night. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s exhausting and I stinkin hate it. These intrusive thoughts play at your fears and emotions and leave you feeling crippled and doubting the truth and distracted from the present moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And what sucks is sometimes you get labeled as distant, quiet, shy, selfish, fearful, etc. One example is that my family would constantly get upset with me for not noticing messes around the house and not taking the initiative to clean it up. The issue wasn\u2019t that I was being lazy. Majority of the time, I genuinely was not aware of it because even though it was in front of me, my mind had me on a roller coaster somewhere else. So what they thought was ignorance and selfishness, was actually me enduring battles of the mind all day and night on a non-stop loop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hard to explain to people who don\u2019t understand. You fight and fight and try to push the thoughts away, only to be re-triggered from something else and pulled into another endless loop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I became really good at making it look like I was present in most conversations, when in reality I was 50% there and 50% in battle against the thoughts. It\u2019s not that I didn\u2019t want to listen or didn\u2019t care, I did! I\u2019d start engaged and then BOOM! the thought creeps in and you don\u2019t even realize you\u2019ve drifted. So you try to pull yourself back into the conversation using nonverbal cues like nodding your head or trying to pick up on the last thing they said and get engaged in the conversation again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m in Christian Therapy and they do a good job of acknowledging the spiritual side of anxiety vs the mental side. How the enemy tries to use it as a tool of distraction and confusion and there may be something spiritual that needs to be addressed. But other times it could be related to unhealed trauma that needs to be addressed through counseling and other therapy methods. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are some helpful practical tools that I\u2019ve learned from my therapist that I hope will help you as well when you’re hit with anxious thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Scripture Breathing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n