Mindfulness is the way to go. Heaps of good resources on it - it teaches you to feel things and to let go of thoughts and to experience the now in a non-judgemental way.

I am crap at it - but I know what it is supposed to do!

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I am crap at it - but I know what it is supposed to do!

Yep, that's me too.

Last week I told T I wanted to swop chairs with her in her new office. She said of course, no problem.
I then told her I had spent the whole week going over and over in my mind all the possible things she might say and how I would answer. I did not need to spend all that time worrying about what she would say, all I had to do was ask her! Simple-not!!

I find walking is good, also mindfulness meditation and Taiji. I do better with movement rather than trying to sit still.
But T thinks this is a big part of my problem and I need to try to be present now and not lost in my head in the past or future.
But easier said than done.

T never told me that in so many words, but she did say things like "wow, that is a lot of things to be thinking about" and suggested I needed to slow down the thinking.

I think it's really the anxiety that fuels being in your head. When you're anxious, your body feels uncomfy to be in, so you go into your head and try to resolve the situation by thinking, but it really just makes the anxiety worse. If you can slow down the thinking and start to feel whatever is going on in your body, it will tend to settle itself out and then you won't feel so much urgency to think a lot.