questions to challenge your worries or anxious thoughts

• How important will this be in my life 5 years from now?

• What would my best friend say I should do about it?

• What would I advise my best friend to do if this was their problem?

• Am I assuming my way of seeing things is the only one possible?

• Am I jumping three events ahead when the first step hasn’t even happened yet?

•Am I overestimating the chances of disaster?

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor’s book.

Men are disturbed not by things but by the views which they take of them … when, therefore, we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never blame anyone but ourselves: that is, our own judgments.
Epictetus, Greek philosopher