Does your brain go into overdrive and spiral into a negative tailspin? Your brain taking a small issue or concern and turning it into a big mountain.
You can capture your thoughts and understand the underline current of where the thought is coming from and how to rewrite that thought. The exercise will help you identify some thought patterns.
Here is a mind map exercise from Jennie Allen’s book, Get Out of Your Head:
Step by step instructions on how to use a mind map.
Look out for those “shoulds.” They will get you every time.
Let us know what you learned from this exercise.