Maybe you’re someone who’s been good at worrying about the future

Maybe you are brilliant at catastrophizing and thinking about the worst that could happen

And then you spend your sleep time trying to work out all the bad things that could happen and how you would deal with each one of them.

This is you doing your best to stay safe in all situations. It feels as though you are looking after yourself. There’s no way, surely, that the world can catch you out now.

This method of looking after yourself takes a lot of time and a lot of energy; and on the whole, those bad things don’t happen anyway

 

 

For those who have learned the skills of the Lightning Process, you may be using the LP to help you create a state of CALM

But what if you also created a state of something along the lines of,,,,,,

‘I know that whatever happens in that situation I will deal with it’;

looking at it this way, calm will be useful – and so will complete confidence and trust in yourself.

 

 

So,

1. 1. Take yourself back to a time in your life when you went into a situation confidently, for whatever reason

2. Or think about something you feel completely confident about dealing with that not everyone does feel confident about;

maybe are confident about:

 

• • picking up spiders

• • or swimming

• • or playing a particular computer game

• • or making a cup of tea

• • or choosing which music to play

 

You will have something that you feel confident about, and trust yourself to do easily

 

How about going into new situations taking this quality with you……no, I really don’t know what will happen, but whatever it is, I will trust myself to find a way through, just as I do when I meet a spider/go swimming/play that game/make a cup of tea/queue up the next song….or whatever. Feel how you feel when you do that thing, notice where you feel it in your body, maybe give it a colour, and take THIS feeling with you.

 

Here’s to you getting a lot more sleep and using your energy for more interesting things in future