Whenever I’ve gone into mental free fall, and I can sense the next stop will be full-on panic, I’ve learned to anchor into focusing on my breath. And, once I’ve stopped the cognitive plummet with a slow inhale, pause, and slow exhale, I’ve learned to then effectively climb back up out of the pit by deliberately thinking of what I can be grateful for.
Focus on breath, and then gratitude. It’s a magic formula I’ve found that has helped bring me back to a sense of peaceful calm whenever I apply it.
Fox Michaels is a Certified Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Practitioner from the Academy of Modern Applied Psychology. He is an intuitive leader with more than 15 years experience as a trainer. In his spare time, Fox writes the ongoing blog Like a Fox!, where he shares his fun, joyful approach to life and love, as his own way of contributing to the Human Potential Movement. When not reading from his library full of personal development books, you can find Fox enjoying the cinema perks of being on AMC’s A-List, and also working to make sure that he’s the most stylish man on his own Instagram page. Feel free to check out if he's succeeding with that @foxmichaels.
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