My thoughts are options

I think of my thoughts as options. I don't have to review every one of them.

I sometimes think about anxiety as my mind creating scenarios and then trying to get me out of them. The same imagination I use to build things can keep building possible problems.

That is one way I make sense of what happens in my own mind. I can let it keep going, imagining one situation and then another.

I think I give my thoughts power through my attention. A thought can appear without me needing to investigate it or solve it.

Some thoughts may fade when I leave them alone and put my attention elsewhere. I want to become more conscious of where I put that attention.