Overwhelmed

hang in there mate. attack 1 thing at a time, I get ya it being hard with so much going on, sending healing thoughts of strength and determination your way.

Sometimes a list helps me to focus. I write the worry down on a piece of paper, and I know it is there. Then I can give my mental energy to something else, since the worry is noted.

stronger than you realise.

Hope:

You wrote:

"Trying really hard to stay present and not let my thoughts go to all the possibilities, but sometimes I feel like I am not being very successful at it."

I came across a column years ago which helped me a lot. I didn't know it, but I was unconsciously negative, having been raised in a negative household and having a major mental illness--manic-depression.

When a problem occurred, I would be unconsciously looking for a negative outcome, to match what I had learned in childhood, things that are bad are bad, which again, matched my negative thinking, meaning I was thinking correctly--things are bad.

What I was missing was that problems are bad, but the chances of solving them can be good. The column said, your attitude going into a problem can be the biggest asset you have, meaning, if you think you can solve it, if your mental attitude going into a problem is that you can solve it, your chances of solving it double.

I had never thought about that. I didn't realize my unconscious was set on negative, since it was in my uncon. and I couldn't see it. Now when I go into a problem, I don't worry about the problem, I worry about my neg. uncon. I say, "Think positive, think positive, think positive..." trying to clear out any neg. in my hidden uncon.

Only then do I start to think about the problem, trying to eliminate me as the biggest obstacle to my solving the problem. Then I allow any idea to solve it to have full attention, and to not deliberately knock it down by my neg. uncon.

I also tell myself, "One problem at a time, and be positive about that problem."