Anxiety's remedy: Overwhelming your anxious brain with action

When anxiety dominates your thoughts, the brain gets trapped in an endless loops of worry, catastrophizing and rehashing of past events. 

This mental chatter magnifies your fears and makes them more real and more threatening. 

The anxious brain feeds on stillness and idleness, using any opportunity to flood your consciousness with "what ifs" and  scenarios of imagined disasters. 

To break out from this destructive pattern one should drown one's brain in deliberate, focused action.
Taking purposeful actions forces your brain to shift from worry to the present moment. 

When you engage in physical activity, creative work, or any demanding task, your mind redirects its resources away from its anxious rumination to the activity at hand. 

Your brain cannot burden you with its senseless catastrophizing when it's actively processing input or solving real problems. 

Your brain gets overwhelmed with so much work that anxiety loses its firm grip on your attention.
Action creates a positive momentum while at the same time starving anxiety of the mental resources it needs to thrive. 

Each completed task builds confidence and shows that you are a capable and a competent individual causing your brain to see challenges as a way to develop abilities rather than pure threats. 

By choosing action over mindless brooding, you train your mind to seek solutions rather than spiral into senseless worry.