Anxiety And Depression On Autopilot! 💙

Our brains love to put things on autopilot. So when you next go and make a cup of tea or a cup of coffee, you don't think consciously about each and every step. You don't think about how much the mug weighs when you lift it up to your mouth. 💙

You just, you know it. And it's only if there's a giant miscalculation do you actually wake up from autopilot and go, oh, hang on, there's no coffee in there or something like that. But our brains do that to save us energy. 💙

And then they use that energy to worry about the future or to ruminate about the past. And that's actually quite unhelpful. So instead of using the free energy to worry about the future and ruminate about the past, try using the free energy to do the best job you can with what you're doing right now. 💙