Some of us have a problem with overactive imaginations. We vividly visualise worst case scenarios and replay the same struggle, fear or fight over and over believing in the essential realty of the imagined dangers. Our imaginations drop on us like a hammer with the weight of reality: _"it is so and you better fear it bad". 

This is the central lie of anxiety - an overblown false alarm.

And we realise in the few moments of logical clarity in between long hours of struggling with our worst fears.

And then we go back to imagining fears.

So here's a trick to help in the middle of the worst imagining sessions:

_Visualise yourself imagining the same dangers._

i.e. Don't give them less importance, but make one small change - instead of imagining the fears alone, visualise yourself sitting at your desk imagining the very fears, with the same weight of reality.

That's all.

Just make that small change. Doing this puts you out of the crosshairs / target zone and allows you to see what you are really doing as a third person would see you - sitting quietly at your table, or in your chair or in bed, multiplying and replaying your fears over and over again.

So if you are A and your fear is B, then before this trick, 

A sits on chair and worries about B

when using the trick

A sits on chair and visualises A sitting on chair and worrying about B.

A -&gt; B

to 

A seeing A-&gt; B

Do this a few times and see the change it brings. 

For some the relief will be immediate, for some, it will be gradual.

Like you were watching the movie your life in real time inside a TV set.

Try it, it might be of help to some of you.

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For me the relief was instantaneous. It lifted a big weight and made me sit up and laugh at what I was doing. I had to apply this over and over and this helped me check myself from getting into repeated anxiety loops.

Good luck!