{"id":6139,"date":"2012-03-13T06:44:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/andre\/?p=6139"},"modified":"2016-05-11T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T14:19:10","slug":"winning-the-battles-in-your-minds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/andre\/sole-significance\/winning-the-battles-in-your-minds\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning the Battles in your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Have you ever been thinking about a situation in your life and before you know it you are engaged in a full-on battle with the various players in your mind?!\u00a0 They launch out with the argument you expect, to which you fire back a masterfully delivered retort, and back and forth and before you know it you are worked up into a lather over a conflict with other people, over a situation that has only occurred in your own mind?<\/span><\/p>\n

Many folks go through this mental combat on a regular basis in anticipation of a conflict that may in fact never<\/strong> happen.\u00a0 It is often a product of our own anxiety and our desire to \u201cprepare\u201d to protect ourselves. \u00a0 Often we work the scenarios over and over in our head - their attack, our response, their next argument and our next response in ways that are just as charged with anger and fear as if it were all happening live.\u00a0 Truth be told, my experience has demonstrated that seldom, if ever, does the actual encounter happen the way I had fantasized it would.\u00a0 Often the perceived antagonist doesn\u2019t come with \u201cguns a blazing\u201d and the situation is not as volatile and toxic as I imagined.\u00a0 Those\u00a0occasions\u00a0when it has been somewhat heated, all my rehearsing served me very little anyways.<\/span><\/p>\n

So what is the value in fighting these epic battles in our minds?<\/strong> \u00a0 They often only serve to get us, even more, worked up, anxious and do little in any actual preparation.\u00a0 So how do we deal with these interior battle fantasies? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a simple strategy for winning the battles in your mind:<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n