Foul is Fair

Hypervigilance may start happening unconsciously, unless we learn to recognize it before it has us spiralling downward. Anytime we start overthinking and worrying or catastrophizing any type of event, we can opt to stop that and go towards a kinder train of thoughts for us, or trying to ground ourselves. It will require a lot of effort, cause it's not easy to change such strong mental patterns, but it can be done with patience and consistency. When we start over-analyzing what we're going through, let's take a breath and see if it's only our anxiety/habit speaking or there's a reason for that (it's very very rare, but it can happen to find yourself in a life threatening situation -but it'd be obvious though). So try to soothe yourself while being objective about the situation and gently checking that there's no real threat for you. It's almost impossible to switch off from fear cause it's our strongest and more powerful emotion, still we can learn to react to it differently: to not let it take over us but to be the one sitting with it and having a talk.

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