Project a large picture of a mosquito on a screen. Project a small picture of a lion on that screen too. At that moment, the mosquito invokes more fear than the lion.
In stressful situations, we become very critical of ourselves. We start focusing on our small defects, mistakes of the past or others harsh comments. We enlarge them in our minds. It looks incredibly scary to us. In that mindset, we forget that in reality it is a little thing.
It is very important to say at that time, “Even though I have enlarged this problem to a 16ft by 16ft screen, the real size of this mosquito of a problem is less than half a centimeter and I can kill it with a bug spray.”
Don’t enlarge your problems in the heat of the moment.
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