When youâre feeling overwhelmed, your mind can start racing ahead, trying to figure out everything that needs to happen or worrying about what might go wrong.
Before long, youâre not only carrying whatâs happening right now. Youâre carrying everything youâre imagining might happen next.
You donât have to solve all of it at once.
Sometimes creating a little space between what is actually happening and what youâre afraid might happen can help you come back to the present and see things differently.
The tools on this page are designed to help you feel more grounded, create some space around the worry, and remember that what youâre imagining is not the only possibility.
A New Perspective
The future you are imagining is not the only future that is possible.
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When we donât know whatâs coming, worry can fill in the blanks for us. And it usually doesnât fill them with the outcome weâre hoping for.
We can find ourselves repeatedly imagining what might go wrong until that possibility starts to feel like whatâs going to happen.
But what youâre afraid might happen is still a possibility, not a fact.
Making room for other possibilities doesnât mean forcing yourself to think positively or pretending everything will be fine. It simply means remembering that the future hasnât happened yet.
There may be other ways this could unfold that you havenât been giving as much attention to.
Something to Reflect On
What future outcome have you been rehearsing most often?
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Try this: divide a page into two columns.
In the first, write down what youâre worried might happen.In the second, write down two or three other ways the situation could unfold. They donât have to be wildly optimistic. They simply need to be possible.
Then look at both sides and notice: What do you actually know to be true right now?
You don't have to believe the worst-case scenario in order to prepare for it wisely.
Embody the Shift
A Practice to Help You Come Back to the Present
The Main Neurovascular Hold is a simple energy technique that can help you feel calmer and more settled when your thoughts are racing ahead.
Take a few minutes to try it and allow your attention to come back to where you are right now. Then return to the reflection questions above and notice whether the situation looks or feels any different.
ⶠWatch the Main Neurovascular Hold
What If...?
What if what you are worried about is only one of many possibilities?
If You'd Like to Explore Further
Anxiety Routine
Anxiety limits your ability to relax, create, and think clearly.
This routine helps you shift out of stress and return to a natural state of calm.
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You don't have to figure everything out by yourself. A private session gives us space to look at what you're experiencing, explore what may help, and identify a way forward that feels right for you.
A Spiritual Perspective
When you're feeling overwhelmed or worried about what's ahead, it can help to connect with qualities like peace, reassurance, calm, trust, and emotional steadiness â a reminder that you don't have to hold everything alone.
If youâre interested in exploring working with Spirit Teams, a Spirit Team that could support you when youâre feeling overwhelmed or worried about whatâs ahead is Archangel Raphael & White Tara. Raphael restores balance to your body, heart, and spirit, while White Tara holds you in sacred stillness and compassion, together offering a space to rest and be held rather than push through on your own.
A Message from this spirit team
"You do not have to heal alone, and you do not have to rush. Allow yourself to be held in stillness and restored in gentle rhythm."
Not quite where you are?
Sometimes more than one of these experiences can feel true at the same time.
