Dear Lindsey:

You know this experience, don’t you: you feel a bit dizzy and you get alarmed: what is wrong with me? Am I going to faint? – something like that, you feel pain, or some mental distress and you get alarmed, wondering what is going on and how worse it will become…?

You expressed distress in your most recent post, don’t escalate it, stop the alarm part.

We all get distressed, I was already distressed a few times this morning, no such thing as being calm on an ongoing basis, if calm now, there will be distress later, when we think a distressing thought or a distressing image appears in our mind

Expect distress, don’t get surprised by it and don’t add the alarm part to it. Focus on what you do, making your life make sense this moment, today.

anita