Instead of creating trouble out of nothing, you might tell yourself: Right now, as far as I know, everything is fine. If a challenge arises—of any kind—I trust myself to respond with skill. If there’s something I don’t know how to do, I trust that I’ll ask for help. Using a blanket statement of self-trust increases your sense of security far more effectively than running potential disaster-solution patterns. Over time, you can retrain your mind to self-soothe rather than self-implode.
