Weekend Mindset: Overwhelming Use of Overwhelming 😳

“Overwhelming” is yet another way of catastrophizing an experience.

These days, every non-preferred event gets labeled “OVERWHELMING”.

Remember, “overwhelming” refers to something that can kill us. Tornadoes, earthquakes, Tsunamis etc may, in fact, be overwhelming for this reason: They can be deadly.

Overwhelmed is a cognition; a thought process NOT A FEELING.

THINKING you are “overwhelmed” creates the FEELING/EMOTION of nervousness, anxiety, or panic.

Something being nonpreferred or difficult or tiring does not equate to being overwhelming.

Catastrophizing the hard things in life activates our limbic system but only because we have assessed them as being more threatening than they actually are.

Our own words program our reality.

Be careful how YOU are programming yours this weekend.

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