Hey everybody My name is Stacy and I'm here with my friend Barry.
Hello there Stacy and we are talking today about the things that we might be worried about and What the opposite of worry might be so I've noticed a couple of things.
I'm worried about right now Barry I Am kind of worried about my cat and you know if he's been acting right and if he's feeling okay and I'm worried about some of my family and I've noticed that when I have worries like this it doesn't feel very good Like it just doesn't feel very good all over but sometimes it really doesn't feel like it may make me not sleep good Or it might make my tummy feel kind of weird It makes it hard to concentrate on stuff.
So I don't know.
What do you think about worry?
I Think it's normal for people to worry because there's so much stuff going on around us So I think we all worry about stuff.
Everybody worries sometimes I think it's what you do with the things that you worry about what you do with those thoughts and how you How you move forward when you realize that you're worried And I think one of the best things you can do is talk to somebody about it somebody that you trust somebody that you know Sometimes people want to hide from other people when they're worried about something,
But I don't think that's the way to go I think you want to talk about your worries with people that you love and be able to express them and get them out And I think that can make them smaller and and give you the opportunity to move forward I think that's true.
I think if I put words to my worry by telling somebody about it It's gonna make them bigger or make them more real But the opposite is what happens it actually makes my worries feel better because I feel like people Are helping me with my worries and they there are so many people who can help you with your worries That might be your friends that might be people at school Like your teacher or other people that are there It could be your parents or other people in your family yet You have a lot of people available to to talk about your worries and they'll be figure stuff out Another thing I've noticed about worry is that all of my worries are about things that have not actually happened yet Things that have not actually happened yet.
So I'm making up a story about what might happen.
I think my worry is a way of feeling scared about what might happen I don't know.
What do you think about this idea that I make kind of making up a story about it?
Well,
I'm glad you I'm glad you brought it up it you know,
The thing hasn't happened yet But your feelings about it have happened You know you might you might do something you might break something or spill something and you're worried about what your parents are going To think about that and so you make up this kind of conversation about what might happen And so you make up this kind of conversation in your head about what's going to happen But that hasn't happened yet your feelings about it are real.
So you want to look at why am I feeling this way?
Why am I anxious rather than having this whole conversation go on in your head and and just making it worse than it is So one option is what if it goes a different way and think about that what if it what if it goes,
Okay?
What if my parents aren't mad about what I did what if my friend isn't mad about what I said yesterday So you can have different things going on in your mind and that's where we get to make choices about What am I going to think about?
So my cat my cat is on my mind today obviously,
But Let's say I was worried about my cat getting lost Instead of being worried about my cat getting lost I could picture my cat happy at home playing with his toys cuddling on my lap And I think when I picture those things in my mind That is a form of mindfulness mindfulness when you get when you can get still and kind of picture it the way you want it to be a Form of mindfulness and I think mindfulness is the opposite of worry.
It's that chance to get still and Shift from feeling scared about what's gonna happen into relaxing about how I want it to be Yeah,
So there's two things that we've that we've talked about.
All right talk to someone when you're worried talk to someone that that you love and you trust and Picture it being okay the thing that you're worried about picture it in a different way that it's gonna be okay That your cats gonna be fine and and your cats fine right now and picture your cat being fine right now.
So Picture the way that you want it in your head and accept it that that's the way that it is Okay,
Here's another good one.
One of my favorites actually so go ahead and take your hands and wiggle your fingers and picture putting those worries right into Your hands and make a fist and make the strongest fist you can make hold it really tight really tight really hard That worry is caught inside your tight fist.
You're gonna hold on super tight to your worry You're gonna feel it getting hot.
It's gonna feel weird and then all of a sudden you're gonna let your hands open just And feel that worry just going away Love it.
Love it.
That's good.
I got one too that you can do with blowing bubbles We all love blowing bubbles so you can you can get your bubble jar out and your bubble wand and if you've got a worry You can blow it into that bubble and release it and watch it pop and these are things that we can do with our mind To help us take charge of our feelings and we can do that I like that because I could actually get out my bubbles or if I don't have my bubbles I could picture myself blowing bubbles Absolutely.
Yeah.
All right.
Awesome.
We have an affirmation for you today Our affirmation is I have the power to let my worries go and relax I have the power to let my worries go and relax I have the power to let my worries go and relax.
I Have the power to let my worries go and relax.
I have the power to let my worries go And relax.
I Definitely feel more relaxed.
I do too.
I do too.
Thank you for that.
All right,
Awesome friends until next time you
