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"cbt_title": "Advanced Techniques for Managing Worry",
"cbt_image": "",
"cbt_order": "58",
"cbt_summary": "<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.7999999999999998;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Imagine you're worried about the future, thinking about things that might go wrong. This worry makes enjoying the present tough because you're caught up in \"what ifs.\" Remember in your previous session, you learned some techniques to handle these worries. Today, let's explore some more methods to help you feel in control and reduce anxiety about future uncertainties.</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-left: 36pt;text-indent: -18pt;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">●</span><span style=\"font-size:6.999999999999999pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> </span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Play with paradoxes. </span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Daily, schedule ten minutes of time to worry. At that time, think about what you have to worry about. Under controlled worry conditions, you may find your mind drifting from the worries.</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-left: 36pt;text-indent: -18pt;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">●</span><span style=\"font-size:6.999999999999999pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> </span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Wear an elastic band on your wrist.</span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> When you start to worry, snap the elastic band. Do it hard enough to be uncomfortable without breaking the skin. Instead of being rewarded for worry, you thus experience this immediate punishment.</span></p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-left: 36pt;text-indent: -18pt;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">●</span><span style=\"font-size:6.999999999999999pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> </span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Give the word “worry” a new meaning</span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">. Use it as an acronym to stand for these corrective actions: </span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Will</span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> yourself to act against worry. </span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Organize</span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> to address worries; test your plan whenever you are caught off guard. </span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Reflect</span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> productively by separating facts from fiction.</span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> Respond</span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> with active measures to control what you can and to accept what you can’t. </span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Yield </span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">to the reality that worries will recur; you don’t have to take them seriously.</span></p><p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-0882b158-7fff-db3a-89c4-d54554f93f89\"></span></p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.7999999999999998;margin-left: 36pt;text-indent: -18pt;text-align: justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 0pt 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">●</span><span style=\"font-size:6.999999999999999pt;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> </span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Plot a mindfulness course.</span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:Merriweather,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> This can be as simple as thinking about a worrisome thought running on a treadmill and getting nowhere. Such changes in thinking responses to anxiety are associated with reductions in worry.</span></p>"
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