231. How To Be Awesome At Controlling Your Thoughts

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">I didn’t realize until I had no choice</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That I could completely control my thoughts.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Five months ago, my husband went into cardiac arrest in the ICU as we were holding hands. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He survived it and I felt like I went from the lowest low to the highest high… Only to realize the journey was just beginning.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We had an uphill road ahead with surgeries and complications and failing organs and a long hospital stay.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And for the first week there was more bad news than good news and I was trying to support him and connect the doctors with each other and keep my kids life feeling as normal as possible.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When I had a few minutes of alone time… When I was driving to and from the hospital or to pick up the kids or before I went to bed… I would naturally think about worst case scenario.  Parker was just about to turn five and his dad his his hero what if…</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And the little super power that I realized we all have… I just hadn’t really woken mine up yet… Was that we can completely control our thoughts.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And this is what I did. Any time one of those worst case scenario, scary thoughts entered my mind I simply said… I don’t and fill the rest in.  I don’t do negative.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Or I don’t do overwhelm.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Or I don’t do worst case scenario right now. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And it allowed me to not crumble at