3. Our Fears Manifest In Future Thinking
Another aspect of future thinking that I want to talk about is how fear can manifest from that future thought. Because we’re no longer being mindful, we’re now focusing on the future. It seems like things speed up, and what I found is that many times people realize the fear or anxiety they feel, but they don’t know where it came from.
Our thoughts create these feelings. If I’m thinking about what I wish I would have done and what I didn’t do, I’m going to feel lost, I’m going to feel hollow, I’m going to feel like I made a mistake, I’m going to really focus on that and feel that.
But if I’m not realizing that, I’m in my future thoughts, and I’m dwelling on that, and I’m not in the moment, I’m not going to be mindful enough to stop that, and I’m going to get into that emotion. So I want you to catch when you are future thinking because that’s the only way that we can stop this, and that’s the only way that you can stop that anxiety that comes from future thoughts.
so I just want you to be able to catch yourself in your future thinking, and you’re on the sidelines of life and able to realize that a lot of this is predicated with the thought and then the emotion. When we have a thought about something that makes us upset, makes us maybe feel resentful, makes us question our reality, that can cause fear and anxiety. So we need to be aware of where those feelings and emotions are coming from based on that future thinking.
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