When we’re stressed or anxious, it’s almost impossible to think clearly. Our higher-level thinking has to be ‘programmed’ in order to ‘take over’ the reptilian brain. We’ve spent years with our reptilian brain controlling how we think and behave. The pathways in the brain for this type of response are automatic. In order to gain control over our thoughts we need to practise thinking and responding in a helpful manner. Eventually the helpful pathway will become larger while the instinctive pathway diminishes. When the helpful pathway becomes dominant, helpful thinking becomes automatic. 
Creativity is essential for problem-solving and decision-making; two functions that we rely on daily to make good choices in almost everything we do. Unfortunately, we are unable to access much creativity when we’re stressed or anxious. While you’re feeling relatively relaxed, come up with several ‘general’ helpful thoughts you can use to combat unhelpful thinking. Helpful thoughts are essentially any thoughts that make us feel good, inspire us, motivate us to take action and/or give us energy. Unhelpful thoughts are any thoughts that make us feel bad. Leading a fulfilling life is about doing what works rather than focusing on what’s fair, right or true. We need to have several previously generated helpful thoughts stored in our memory because we won’t be able to create new helpful thoughts when we’re immobilized by stress.
Some examples of unhelpful thinking are “My brother doesn’t make time for me, so I must not be very important to him”, or “I’m obviously not a priority to him.
Some examples of helpful thinking are: “He has a really busy life”, “I know he loves me a lot” “It’s not personal” “This gives me more time to do all of the exciting things I’d like to find time for in my life” etc.
I’d love to hear from you. What are some helpful thoughts you use to combat unhelpful thinking?
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Hi Susan, We all need to change some things in our life, but it is recognising that we need to change that most people do not understand, and they go about their day to day run of the mill duties without realising, that if they changed something like their thinking or habits, then their life would change dramatically. Best Self Help
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