When your thoughts get loud, remember this...

Your brain doesn't believe what's true; it believes what is familiar. And what's familiar, is what you repeat. 

Your thoughts shape your feelings, your feelings drive your actions and your actions shape your identity. This is how your brain wires who you think you are.

BUT...

Your brain is changeable. Say something often enough... with emotion... and your brain rewires for it.

That's why self-talk isn't harmless. It's powerful.

The way you speak to yourself becomes the way you feel about yourself. 

Your brain doesn't know the difference between real and imagined, so visualising the calm, confident, capable version of you? That's not fluff. That's neuroscience. 

You don't own your thoughts; they visit. You don't have to believe them.

If you wouldn't say it to your best friend, don't say it to yourself either!

Change the input... and you can change the outcome.

Mrs Westergaard, Wellbeing Team

Standing up straight can hit anxiety where it hurts.