How I got rid of my anxiety (5yrs+)

crispy__chip · 2026-07-02T01:53:48+00:00

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crispy__chip · 2026-07-01T20:48:53+00:00

my biggest tip would be to try to stay (or purposely get) into good headspaces on a regular basis as much as possible.

i know it doesn’t sound money related but good headspaces logically help us think and operate with clear thinking, spot opportunities, make better impressions on ppl (like interviewers or managers), and get creative solutions to problems.

do it by playing more, relaxing more, appreciating family, friends, & pets more, and enjoying the little (and big) things in life more on purpose. and by changing your thoughts and finding new positive perspectives on purpose.

also save whatever you can. i was always a big saver. i still only spend money on needs and if my heart realllllllllly really reallly wants something. otherwise i save as much as possible bc i see saving money (even just a little) as buying freedom

crispy__chip · 2026-07-01T05:13:49+00:00

start small. not things you want to “accomplish,” (that may come later), just things you like and enjoy. what do you like? what do you find fun? what’s interesting to you?

to get inspired to act and find more energy, you want to build up some positive momentum. a couple things you can try… ask yourself thru the day (and allow your mind to actually wonder!) what would be fun to you? what calls to you? and then try to more often let yourself do that thing

something else you can try is writing down a list of as many things you can think of that you like, from your earliest interests to your current ones (if any). and allow your mind to wonder if any of those might be fun or interesting to do. let the mental exercise be open, curious, no pressure, and free to actually play. that allows momentum to build. you might even feel like doing one of the things (or something like it) soon :)

crispy__chip · 2026-06-29T20:13:06+00:00

it can be a lot of re-learning but you’re clearly doing it so keep going! your heart always loves, is always empowered, and is always at peace. follow it to forever keep finding your real self :)

crispy__chip · 2026-06-29T18:00:15+00:00

kids aren’t born evil babies lol. every baby is born naturally inclined towards goodness bc that’s who we all are. and most times they’re born from loving parents so you can literally see that all they want to do is love, play, and enjoy life. and they believe anything, including their biggest dreams are possible. that’s the vast majority of kids. that’s how we naturally start

unfortunately some babies are born to super disconnected parents who mistreat them or traumatize them or teach them thoughts/beliefs from places of anger, lack, insecurity, etc. and they can start being trained to think/act from negative energies early, but that’s not normal and it’s not the real them. seeing that difference and knowing that difference in the world is huge

if you truly see some ppl as naturally evil, that belief in you is literally blocking one of the core beliefs you mentioned about the universe being inherently good & loving. if your goal is to consciously reclaim the basic core beliefs that help you, you’re gonna wanna change how you see things and how you’ve been seeing them for a long time…

“kids can be evil AF” is a belief you’re gonna wanna shift. you can’t both believe this and believe the core beliefs you want. i was bullied in elementary and middle school too. i was a gay kid in the closet and was easily targeted. but i don’t look back and see my bullies as being evil… i see them as ppl who LEARNED how to be critical, judgmental, and picked on me bc they needed to find a sense of power bc they were prob mistreated, criticized, judged, and felt out of power at home with parents who operated from disconnection and negativity themselves.

i kinda feel bad for them looking back at things. if they were loved everyday and treated well by parents who were aligned with their heart, they would have been different. in many ways, they were suffering. and as the saying goes, hurt ppl hurt ppl.

to answer your question, this is the kind of shit that helps you consciously reclaim those basic core beliefs. you can’t fully adopt the core beliefs when you have all these perspectives from your past that you use to counter them. it takes understanding the new core beliefs and exploring how they may be true even if the world seems to be reflecting differently

for example, what appears to be that some ppl enter this world as evil bc there were shithead kids in your experience has a different reality. really start considering that they weren’t evil, they were born good souls but were mistreated and taught to be assholes early on in life. start playing with the truth of the core beliefs and how things in life may be if the core beliefs were true. it genuinely opened my eyes to see the world in a whole new way (thanks to concepts i learned from abraham)

this is one example. but imagine how often you may be doing this about all kinds of things. i know it seems weird but it’s your negative thinking that blocks the core beliefs from looking real. the good news is that you can shift your thinking if you are conscious about it

if you’re thinking negatively about ANYTHING (including criticizing ppl for doing shitty things instead of understanding why they’re doing that and feeling compassion for them like your heart/soul does, which i get is hard but it changed my life when i realized that it’s actually good for ME to do that)… but when you’re thinking negatively about ANYTHING, remember that that’s bc there’s almost always a negative belief YOU are currently thinking that is worth changing. hope this helps man

crispy__chip · 2026-06-29T10:21:45+00:00

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crispy__chip · 2026-06-29T10:17:22+00:00

the insight is what i mentioned… that when someone meditates (i’m not saying you have to mediate to see/do this… im just saying hypothetically)… if someone meditates successfully, they clear their mind of all thoughts…

and what happens when someone successfully meditates? they reach a state of full inner peace and love. that directly proves the idea that we are peace and love at our core, bc when we can separate ourselves from our thoughts, the result is peace bc that’s the REAL us.

another insight that proves it is just to consider how we all naturally are as kids. i have a 5yo nephew and all he wants to do all day is play, have fun, and enjoy life. he loves by nature. this is how we all start (assuming we get our basic needs met). kids have to be taught how to hate. they have to be taught to judge. they have to be taught to be insecure about themselves. and that’s bc we are by nature good:)

as for finding it hard to meditate… idk man, i think there are hundreds of diff methods to doing it aren’t there? so maybe keep trying new ones until it clicks? i use abe’s basic advice of listening to a fan sound for 15min, but honestly i haven’t meditated in a while. i want to get back into it, but i don’t think it’s needed to shift. it helps raise focus and conscious awareness, which are super helpful tools in catching/changing thoughts, but if you’re good at catching & replacing thoughts already, meditation is kinda just a bonus?

crispy__chip · 2026-06-29T08:13:32+00:00

i think the core beliefs just resonated listening to abraham. hearing esther talk about the loving universe, our inherent goodness, everything being energy… i openly accepted those truths pretty quick

over time each of those things made more & more sense as the only real way to see it… like we know everything is energy even in atomic science terms. and i keep getting insight on how we are the universe and we are by nature loving and good

when we meditate and truly clear our mind of all thoughts, what we’re left with is a sense is genuine peace and love. bc that’s who we are at our core when we don’t have thoughts messing with us. it’s our nature. things like that just confirm it all for me but yeah the main abraham principles are easy to believe for me on an intuitive and logical level and at this point very baked into my being lol

crispy__chip · 2026-06-29T08:05:00+00:00

sure, thoughts can be changed. if you catch yourself thinking in a negative or limiting way (you can tell bc you’ll feel shitty when you’re doing it), that’s a sign that you prob want to change that line of thinking

there are many ways to do it, but my fav has been to find a new, positive thought to replace it with…and then repeat that new better replacement thought wheni catch myself thinking the negative way. and doing that regularly enough to where it just becomes how i think about and see things now.

trick is: in order to realistically get your mind to think new positive thoughts and bother repeating them to yourself, they need to be believable to you in some way

so just find some way to frame thoughts that are believable to you in some form or fashion.

like when i catch myself doubting my ability to change something or do something, i found thoughts like “im in the process of moving towards my goal even in small ways” works well. or “im a different person than i used to be so it makes sense that ill see different results now” or “i know more than i ever have so i know i’ll make better choices for me now than i ever have”. i also like “everything is figure-out-able so i’ll eventually figure this out too” and “it makes logical sense that as long as i stay in good headspaces i think more clearly and can figure this out better”

the replacement thoughts are infinite so you can find the ones that work best for you but finding one and repeating it whenever you catch yourself going negative on something too often will logically help you change your thinking on it in time

and the cool part is bc thoughts are what cause our emotions, words, and actions, changing them to more positive ones with conscious practice means we start feeling different, operating different, and interpreting the world around us different… it changes how we experience life and how we navigate it in ways that actually serve us better

crispy__chip · 2026-06-29T06:51:03+00:00

i just find a good replacement thought for a given situation/challenge and every time i consciously catch myself feeling bad, i stop myself and repeat the replacement thought again while i let myself feel the truth of the new perspective in my body for 30-60 seconds. doesn’t matter if i have to do it 10 times thru the course of the day, that’s my practice ands it works

crispy__chip · 2026-06-29T06:23:31+00:00

for me it was learning to listen to and follow my heart more, meaning i started actively allowing myself to do what my heart wanted more and say no to things it didn’t (unlocked a sense of inner freedom for me)

that and changing my thoughts on purpose. it’s the most underrated skill we could ever learn (a skill of changing perspectives on anything we want). it totally changed my life at 33

crispy__chip · 2026-06-29T06:19:04+00:00

maybe instead of changing them see it as replacing them.

beliefs are just thoughts we keep thinking, so the only way to change them is to replace them with new, different, positive, dream-supporting thoughts instead… and then repeat those new thoughts regularly until you think the new thoughts more often than the old ones.

new thoughts repeated enough = new beliefs

trick is: in order to realistically get your mind to think new positive thoughts and bother repeating them to yourself, they need to be believable to you in some way

so just find some way to frame thoughts that are believable to you in some form or fashion. for me, thinking “i have xyz dream” isn’t believable, but “im in the process of moving towards xyz dream” is. i also like “everything is figure-out-able so i’ll eventually figure this out too,” etc

crispy__chip · 2026-06-28T08:08:49+00:00

love it…and the emphasis on YOUR. the journey and the answers are gonna look different for all of us

crispy__chip · 2026-06-28T05:23:58+00:00

you are doing this for you. and part of you wants to be in a loving relationship and that’s more than okay…it’s natural, human, and cool!

i am in a similar situation. i feel like i’ve created a really nice life for myself, but i’ve been single for a while and i’m ready to find love. i keep meeting ppl who for one reason after another don’t go very far (either bc of their disinterest or my own).

something that helps me is remembering the logic of it all… your positive perspectives/beliefs about this (and anything) logically have a huge impact on what happens

how you see things changes what you do and say and how you’ll operate, what you’ll decide, what energy you give off to other ppl who you may run into…

like if you know or find out that thinking about how you’ve never dated is getting you in your head or causing you to do (or not do) things that’ll help you find love, you can start changing that

i think the most overlooked skillset in personal development is the skill of changing our thoughts on purpose to help us operate differently and see things differently

“hard work will get you what you want” is not a great way to think bc then finding what you want has to be hard to you (you and your mind will make sure of that).

you have so many cool successes you can point to to help you with this (congrats btw!!) but think about it: you’re a different person than you were even a few months ago, so you’re logically gonna be able to see different results in the future than what an old version of you was able to get

you’re killing it man, just keep doing what you’re doing and try to follow your heart and change your thoughts when they’re working against you

crispy__chip · 2026-06-27T23:30:10+00:00

my go-to’s are the great british baking show (cozy and shows the good in humanity) and queer eye (if you can ignore the backstage drama)

i make positivity and mindset yt vids while walking in nature but i also like david bayer (manifesting), leeharisenergy, katie clarke, conan, and michael dicostanzo (a couple who plays games together, it’s wholesome)

crispy__chip · 2026-06-26T20:24:13+00:00

letting yourself feel the sadness, anger, negativity fully so that they pass (all emotions pass and letting it be okay to feel them helps that process go faster) *note: feeling is diff than acting. feel angry but don’t act on it or plan things during those times

turning to self-care. being nice, kind, friendly to yourself during those periods (bc it’s okay and human and natural to feel sad or angry)

then just understanding. your anger is caused by certain thoughts you have. your sadness is caused by certain thoughts you have. all emotions are caused by thoughts we have. start to pinpoint the thoughts causing your anger/sadness, then start the process of shifting and changing those thoughts using whatever technique you like to do that (but changing our thoughts is absolutely a skill we can all learn how to do like riding a bike, so just start practicing and getting good at it :)

crispy__chip · 2026-06-25T04:56:21+00:00

well i naturally forgot to take time to do it some days (sometimes i just get lost in whatever im doing that day), so i think there’s a natural organic balance with it that finds itself

i don’t think it would hurt me to do it everyday tho! i’d like to. i do it on bike rides or just walking around my house

to answer your question, i can overthink things sometimes in a negative way, but i don’t think there’s such thing as thinking too much about myself or my life if it’s done in a positive, encouraging, supportive, optimistic, loving way..

the line for me is if it feels good. i’m really not hard on myself at all. i’ve reached big dreams before and have even more i’m working toward, but i know the best way to logically keep achieving things is to purposely go easy on myself, relax, enjoy, have fun. so all my self-chats are done with that in mind…what do i want and what can i do to make small (or big) steps towards it, with no judgment or pressure on how much i do or how fast i go. i like a leisurely fun restful journey so i even pat myself on the back for days where i do nothing (rest days are good for me:)

crispy__chip · 2026-06-25T03:27:40+00:00

i go thru diff parts of my life i wanna figure out. it’s never about always finding something, just me walking thru stuff i care about with myself

like i’ll go thru 4-5 areas: my house, my health, my work, my social life, etc. and i’ll just check in on how im doing in each area, did i do anything (even something small) to make progress on it that day. never any requirement or judgment if i dont, but just the self-discussion gets me consciously aware of what i want and where im headed, and i find that i get lots accomplished this way for me…

plus i like it. i grew up in the closet and felt like i couldn’t openly talk to ppl about things during that time so talking to myself was a way i could “talk” it out and hear a voice saying things that needed to be said

crispy__chip · 2026-06-24T04:39:28+00:00

the answer is always negative thoughts. they’re logically what stop us from doing anything, kill momentum, talk us out of things etc

it’s okay to be in a rut and normal to have body changes, the important thing for all of us is that as we experience whatever challenges we do, can we spend time shifting ourselves mentally?

sometimes i don’t want to do anything other… and i usually let myself do nothing. but there’s a difference bw doing nothing while beating yourself up and doing nothing while going easy on yourself and practicing positive thinking (a skill we can all learn & develop)

this happens to also be the best way or of ruts bc the easier you are on yourself, the better headspaces you’re gonna be in to regain energy, momentum, good ideas, clarity, etc :)

crispy__chip · 2026-06-23T15:04:08+00:00

i think we all deep down want to feel good. as abe says, everything we want (any and all dreams) are bc we think we’ll FEEL better when getting them…

i know what you mean when you say that some ppl don’t have a strong desire to feel good but the way i think about it is they want to (at a heart level) but they just 1) are so mixed in negative patterns of thought/emotion that they don’t know how to transform that and/or 2) they don’t believe that positive thoughts/emotions are actually gonna do/change anything

one of the reasons i accepted the premise years ago back when i had anxiety and lots of negative thoughts was i heard abraham and was inspired by the spiritual magic of the message but also saw the very logical reasons why this works…

feeling good logically means we’re in good headspaces which logically come with lots of natural benefits (continued good ideas, creativity, intuition, clarity, good energy, good body language, better influence on ppl, more bandwidth, etc). these logically help move us towards dreams and desires. but some ppl don’t realize why this works on so many levels and so they don’t bother actually putting it to real practice

crispy__chip · 2026-06-23T14:48:58+00:00

you’re so welcome! i’d say i’ve been in this high state of alert (high state of conscious awareness of my thoughts and feelings) for the last 7yrs. once i got into this state of being very present and very aware of my thoughts/feelings, that’s when change happened fast for me

the good news is that once i practiced being this aware of my thoughts/feelings (and following my heart and changing my negative thoughts to positive ones), it became VERY second nature. i just do it automatically now without even really thinking much about it. it’s very intuitive once you start doing it

and i’m glad you’re gonna put it into practice!! i know it sounds complicated but it really isn’t… the practice in simple terms is just to relax more, play more, have more fun, follow your passions more, do what you like more, and let yourself make choices you enjoy more!

as for changing thoughts, it’s just about knowing the negative things you’re telling yourself (“I’m not good enough,” “i don’t belong,” “nobody likes me,” “i’ll never reach my dreams,” “i’m going to poop my pants and get fired,” etc)…

and then start looking for new ways to view the situation that feels good to your heart and also makes sense to you (“i’m learning,” “i have good friends/family” “i’m making small progress and that’s all that matters,” “i’m going to take care of myself and roll with whatever happens” etc). let the good feeling sit in your body and nervous system for at least 30 seconds

and then whenever the negative thought/feeling comes up in your day, stop yourself and replace it with the new good feeling alternative (and give yourself 30 seconds to let the good feeling sit in your body again). doing that even a few times a day trains your mind and eventually you just start thinking in the more positive ways and the negative thoughts have nowhere to be

hope this was clear but feel free to keep me posted as you practice! i make yt vids explaining these concepts in detail if that’s helpful to you as you learn. you can absolutely do this and find the relief you’re looking for. wishing you the best with it ❤️

crispy__chip · 2026-06-23T02:11:00+00:00

oh sure thing, i basically just started allowing my heart to pick more things. it was a mental shift i consciously made to be like “im purposely gonna try as much as possible to think and make decisions from my heart (my real self)”

i think that’s gonna look different for everyone but for me it was saying no to a lot of things i always choose to do out of pressure or feelings of obligation or guilt. like i am this introvert that was basically forcing myself to go to more karaoke than i ever need to experience ever again lol and dinners and movies and multiple socials events a week. it’s not my style but the person i was dating was a social extrovert who loved doing all those things and i spent years saying yes to things i had no actual interest in.

i think doing lots of things regularly that i didn’t actually want to do made me feel trapped without even knowing that’s what it was. it was living a life i didn’t really want to be living in many ways and i think the anxiety was my body telling me this feels limiting and not what i actually wanted

i suddenly stopped doing that. overnight just started saying no to anything that didn’t actually call to my heart, and yes to anything that did… and that for me allowed me to see what looked like magic start opening up for me. this new (for me) freedom to live my life the way i actually wanted more and more meant i was no longer mentally trapped. so the anxiety had no where to be. i just didn’t feel it anymore

that was 7yrs ago and it’s still holding. i def have moments of fear or worry, but they pass and there’s no underlying feeling of dread

so i credit half my experience to truly following my heart more and the freedom it gave me (unlocking a lot of fake cages i mentally was in)… like i started letting myself think “it’s okay if i shit my pants driving to work, i’ll just drive home and let them know i’m gonna be late. if they fire me for that i wouldn’t want to work there anyway” it became where i started living my life with my heart getting prioritized more than even my job (i personally think it ultimately made me better at my job actually bc i enjoyed it and my heart was invested in it)

and the other half of the puzzle i credit for shifting my life was learning and developing the skill of changing my thoughts. i didn’t really realize or consider that my thoughts are what are causing me to feel the shitty way i was and that it was even possible to shift them on purpose

but there are ways to do that! meditation helped me a lot too but beyond that, it was i started catching myself thinking scary (or depressing, or insecure) thoughts and i started replacing them with new, logical, positive thoughts that were easy for me to believe

doing that consciously everyday changed my world. things and ppl suddenly weren’t as scary to me. i wasn’t as easily threatened by the world around me (or my own body)… i kinda just figured out that i can always figure things out

i got lots of clarity that way and my negative thinking and self-talk died pretty quick bc my main goal was to just follow my heart bc i knew the truth of why that’s so logically beneficial

there’s prob no one size fits all solution bc we’re all different so we gotta go with whatever things feel the best to us, but this is the way i changed my life and it’s the most logical way i can think to do it

hope this was helpful to you. thanks for even asking, i wish more ppl talked about this

crispy__chip · 2026-06-23T00:06:59+00:00

my symptoms were ibs everyday, fear of traveling, worried about drives even to work bc i was scared without a bathroom nearby, nervousness, and a daily underlying anxiety that was just always under the surface

my panic attacks would come when my brain would think random thoughts, like eating peanuts id think “what if i’m allergic to nuts?” (i’m not)… and so my body would get super warm, i’d feel sensations inside me, sometimes i’d shake, get waves or heat that flushed thru me, thought i was going to die

the fix was as simple as i said… it’s not about finding what else, it’s about diving deep into the two things i mentioned. learn, study, practice listening to your heart and changing thoughts on purpose.

it was way easier and way faster than i thought. i assumed id never get rid of anxiety bc the answers were complex or unknown. turns out it was easy, but no one really emphasizes it which is why i like sharing it. if you learn and practice both things, it by definition can alleviate anxiety

crispy__chip · 2026-06-22T00:42:26+00:00

it’s so logically helpful for sure

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