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Stanley Block M.D.:
I can't do this, nobody loves me, how am I going to get through the day and these thoughts paralyze us by filling our body with worry, misery, tension.

Psychiatrist, Dr. Stanley Block, author of the book, Come To Your Senses has developed a technique to prevent those thoughts from taking a toll on you.

For instance you wake up in the morning and say, "Oh, this is a bad hair day, this is going to be a miserable day." But what happens is we start playing a tape, oh it's going to be a miserable day, how am I going to get through the day, mother said I look miserable in the morning, poor me, woe is me.

What Dr. Block recommends is that when you have a negative thought, you interrupt it and you do that by bringing your mind to the present and focusing on your five senses. What are you seeing, what are you hearing, what are you touching right this second?

Even your listeners who are driving an automobile and worried about traffic, worried about getting to work, worried about the kids. All they have to do is feel the steering wheel, hear the roar of the engine and they will experience a sense of relaxation, it works with everybody. You take the legs away from the misery, you don't have to understand it all you have to do is come to your senses, your life will never be the same.

There's more at Dr. Blocks website which you can link to from ours: somethingyoushouldknow.net I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.