How to Stop Expecting The Worst (Catastrophizing) -Teal Swan- 

I sometimes feel that if I were to show my confidence and be myself that people would hurt me. Does anyone else feel like this?

"missing" someone before they are gone is such a strange feeling.

I just wanted to let you know that you are the most valuable resource i have for coping with my years of ongoing depression and anxiety. I'm endlessly grateful that you exist.

I think I just learned more from you in 20 minutes than in one year with my therapist who keeps telling me not to catastrophyse but never gives tips on how to do it.

Teal is the only spiritual teacher (to my knowledge) that encourages to feel and honor your "negative" feelings. Other teachers tell you to get out of it by doing this or that which feels like I'm working on those feelings but I'm actually resisting those feelings and subconsciously only accepting myself when I'm only in a positive state. That's not 100%, that's not 100 self-acceptance.

“Just because you experienced something negative and tragic in your past, does not guarantee it will happen in your future”. What a beautiful contrast to… “That’s the way it’s always happened before. Why should I believe it’s going to be any different in the future?”

I swear, every time i start to think about something she puts a video out on that subject.

I just cannot imagine how a woman in your age has such a deep insight that every sentence you say makes so clear sense and brings understanding and through it peace as well. These words feel like the heart is talking to the mind in a soft and gentle way so they can be friends -again :)

BEING FREE FROM ANXIETY OR AT LEAST HAVING A NORMAL AMOUNT OF FEAR IS THE BIGGEST STRENGHT A HUMAN BEING CAN HAVE TEAL THANK YOU

I used to respond to my mother's accusation of being "such a pessimist" with, "I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than severely disappointed". I lived thus for decades until I realized that it was my expectation.creating the disappointments all along.

Thank you, Teal. I really needed to hear those words. You always make the difference in my days, helping me to understand how we all work. Many blessings !

Thank you so much Teal. I listen to a lot of content like this but you are the only spiritual teacher who really makes me feel okay about not feeling okay. You have no idea how helpful this is to me.

Really amazing young woman. Sometimes you can hear something a hundred times and then someone will put it in a way that just resonates with you. Thanks, Teal. Keep posting....

One step is left out: Phantasize sometimes on the best case scenario too! Maybe it can be useful. 😊

What helped me was realizing that even though bad things have happened to me at times when I have chased after my desire; it does not mean that chasing after my desire is what caused those bad things to happen.

Her eyes are so pretty and hypnotizing

I laughed hard when that wall full of toilerpaper came as an example about "preparing for the worst" x)

My great grandfather would say "Don't worry, nothing will be ok." I have found comfort in his words of honesty because experience has proven to me the illusion of permanents. In order to find anything you first must loose everything. And at the end of the day all we have are the lessons that we learned from right and wrong and what that means to us. I am thankful for my lessons and I cherish the meanings because that is the birth of my perspective of what unity is. Remember to have love for your self being and the rest will follow, no matter how bad. Peace.

I watched this twice continuously. It brought so much peace and inner calm instantly.

your videos are so much more helpful than any therapy session i've ever had. thank you :)

Letting go... That's the key... Attachment is the worst

Its one thing to fear the future and another to be ready for the worst.Be prepared don't be afraid.

Suffering from disease, old age, and death are inevitable. Therefore, we must design our life around serving our higher calling and just recognize our constitutional position as part and parcel of Bhagavan... jiva mukti is liberation from material consciousness. I use my Japa mala beads as the feel good item you speaks of. I love your videos!

I've been feeling like I've been grieving for the past few weeks and I couldn't pinpoint why. This video hit the nail on the head and saved me, thank you Teal.

no matter how good you are there will always be critics

in just 2 days of viewing your video i am so impressed by your guidance...teal i need you...

What if you always expect the best case scenario, but it never happens?

For the past few years I have been struggling with this sort of thinking and I am so immensely grateful for finding this video. Your videos Teal have changed my life, thank you, and I love you.

I will always expect the best to happen and the best will happen everyone who's sees this comment have a great day 💖

it makes me so glad that there are people out there like you who help me become the person im suppose to be

Looking into your eyes feels like looking down a long hallway.

It's scary how you speak the exact words what I feel on an emotional level.

I cant even get through the first minute of this without stopping and preparing myself for what Im about to learn and acknowledge.

SUMMARY - How to Stop Expecting The Worst (Catastrophizing) -Teal Swan- We ecpect bad things to happen, because bad things did happen, we felt powerless, blind-sided unable to explain why it happened So we decided that we had no control over our lifes, we decided to be at the mrecy of a cruel world that harms us We decided that the only way to not feel this pain is to prepare for the worst Expecting the worst is survival mechanism for the one of us who feel like they dont create their reality, who have been hurt again and again expecting the worst is griefing, disappointment, missing for something before it even happened Because we forgot that we create our own reality we dont recognize that we create suffering by expecting the worst When we suppress, deny deep feelings of loss that happened to us as a child we attract situations that make us feel like this again expecting the worst you dicid to live in a war zone we feel so powerless to expect something to gone good because it didnt gone good in the past The law of attraction magnifies and reflects exactly what you feel in the physical world according your vibration your feeling is indication for what vibration you hold warrying makes you not necessarily a match to the thing you worry about but to more worry Tragedy is a match to lower vibrations like grief or loss pretend you dont know the law of attraction 40% we worry about does never happen 30% we worry about has already happened 22% is needless wory or petty worries like what others think about us, being late, what making for dinner 8% actually happens of which 4% are completely out of our control like illness, death of loved one 4% of the worry we have some or complete control over the results it is what we create on ourselves how to handle expecting the worst 1. allow yourself to feel the feeling especially the memory of loss which is most likely unconscious --> how to heal the emotional body video when you often expect the worst case scenario you have to do a lot of healing with your emotional body 2. acknowledge that you dont know what the future contains you cant know if there will happen bad things as well as good things 3. Take a look at deserving If you expect the worst you think on a subconscious level that you dont deserve good things --> Deserving video --> strike deserving video 4. acknowledge that the vibration of disappointment is the pervasive vibration of your life --> disappointment video use books, programs etc that help you with disappointment 5. Design your day about things that feel good to you expecting the worst you are not aligned with what you want Plan small things for the future that feel good to you and that most likely will happe if you expect that big things to fail plan little things you are looking forward like like Things like watching a movie, or eating a treat, or going on a walk, or sitting on a bench, or going swimming, or visiting someone. Start to expect small to get comftable with positive expectations, later you can expect bigger 6. synchronizity journal write down things that seem divinely planed this makes you see that you create your reality and that the universe works on your behalf it makes you see that you are not as powerless as you think 7. Spend time in the attitude of appreciation meaning you feel joy when you look at something this trains you to change your focus on positive use a reminder or create gratitude lists, use everything to be grateful if you acknowledge things that feel good it weakens the belief that always bad things happen to you 8. Reflect on worst case scenarios that acutally didnt happen your brain needs to see the proof 9. MOST IMPORTANT you resist what you actually think about go to the worst case scenario an allow yourself to really worry dont suppress your fear, write it down being aware of your fears increases your vibration do planing to reduce your fears write down and divide your fears into fears you can do and you cant do anything about strategically plan what you can do about the fears you can do soemthing about The more you feel you have control over your reality, your experience the less you will worry practice letting go for fears you cant do anything about Worriors focus on problems incessantly and resist doing this and they dont take any actions to feel better by facing the fears and strategizing what to do you reduce resistance to the problem going deep into the worst case scenario experiencing it as it would actually happen allows us to make peace with it as you allow to feel the fear you resist you no longer resist it and you dont worry about it 10. think positive about what you are worrying its common sense that the thinks you focus on shapes the experience of your life so acknowledge whatever makes you feel better about what you worry dont lie to yourself doing this exercise, affirmations dont necessarily make you feel better which is the essence of this exercise Thanks Teal

I started appreciation practice with appreciating your presence and support Thank you so much teal🙏😇

I'm going to implement your strategies, I had someone else tell me the same thing earlier today, synchronicity! You are my favorite teacher on RU-vid Teal, thank you!

I think that learning to expect the worst can be quite liberating. It’s far more realistic and you’re not all affected by it when something bad happens. Having the wrong expectations can cause a lot of pain. Btw you look mighty fine in this video

you have no idea how grateful i am of this video. teal, you're an angel. so smart. you're the only person in the personal development community that made me go to the root of my problems, and realise this is the only way to solve them. i love everything you do.

This resonated with me. I have been worrying too much lately. And I have tried to calm myself down by thinking and knowing that everything will turn out ok. Thank you for this video.

It gave me courage and strength to take the bull by thehorns and go through the motion now ..in the end willingly or unwillimgly we surrender to the ultimate reality and thank him and pray .

teal has become a staunch advocate of grief work as of late. all though this is not bad, the grief advocates in the new age rely to heavy on it. you can literally grieve forever if you choose to. it good to grieve to introspect. but dont stay stuck there. often the only ones who heal are the ones who look inside themselves, but also find the courage to focus how they should.

I love you so much. I have gone to so many churches and pastors and so many other things that I thought would help me. What you say in your videos resonates with me so well and I believe that you are a healer. Thank you for helping me improve my vibration for not only me but everyone else. You are a really special person to me.

I’ve never felt so understood in my entire life 😢

Once again, thank you for your unlimited love.

Question to the haters of this channel: why are you still watching the videos or hanging out and writing hating comments here? If you hate it - don't watch it, don't talk about it...I guess you still do.

Thanks Teal! 😊 🙏💕 I have been in such a dark place these last few days and not allowing myself to focus either positively or negatively because it felt like both ways I would be bringing tragedy upon myself. Deserving is definitely an issue. I needed to hear this again!

“The reality is easier to deal with than the worry itself”

Keep it simple...I say this God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, Courage to change the things that I can and....... The wisdom to know the difference,

Thanks so much for blowing the nonsense away from the simplistic readings of the "law of attraction."

Thank you. I can't accept your worldview, but I can still find value here.

your videos are honestly the most helpful thing when it comes to my spiritual/ personal development questions. thank you so much for putting the fearless authenticity out there.

Thank you Teal. You are literally helping me in one of the hardest years of my life. I love you.💖

I love her "Have a good week! 🙏 ".

Is Anxiety an intense form of worry? I have Anxiety about going somewhere alone or being social. I sometimes panic if I'm in a situation that increases my anxiety.

I needed to hear this! I know you are touched by source and I appreciate your gift of love and encouragement. Especially during this time in my life🙏🏾❤️❤️🌹

The way you hit the nail on the head sends me shivers

I'm trying to stop expecting the worst daily and it goes kinda okay, more or less some months. Thanks for another good clip that fits who I am :) Keep going and deliver good videos Teal

Still an imprint I’m battling from eons of pain, and holding for collective. Releasing, blessings. Gratitude

Good message. I'm into challenges, so I'm delighted to tackle my fears. Letting go is hard for me, but I have to if I am going to survive.

I've been watching for 5 years and now rewatching.

Teal is fantastic and I trust her and her words and she gets the human condition and the pains we go through,thanks so much,I wish I could process the words quicker or go back and have some of this wisdom present in my past to help back then,I wouldn't be in so much emotional pain now which is intolerable some days but these videos of wisdom give a new perspective and some comfort through a painful time

to deal with this i like to tell myself that in as much as there's a possibility for bad things to happen , there's an even greater chance for good things to happen

I relate to the picture of toilet paper. I stock up on dog food and toilet paper and baggies to pick up dog poop with. At any given moment I usually have a closet full of toilet paper, bags of dog food, boxes of plastic baggies. Preparing for when I am broke so I will not have to suffer and not be able to get what I need when there is no money.

I'm amused by some of the comments that contain 'negative connotations'. What Teal provides is guidance that either resonates with you or does not resonate with you. There are many people out there that need to have positive reinforcement and guidance in their lives.I see absolutely nothing wrong with that and do not believe that it's OK to chastise or make one feel inferior because they are seeking assistance to help themselves. I personally am thankful that Teal provides FREE guidance via RU-vid on subjects that people can truly relate to. I encourage those of you that make it a practice to pull the negative out of most things to really listen to what Teal and other guides have to say. Be objective and open, you may be surprised at what you find.

Embrace the pain... and you will win this game.

And gratitude is the best prayer

"This woman is my destiny"

I always fall into the bottom 8% when it really matters and when it's the most devastating. I'm not worried, I just expect the worst case. Takes the worry away but waiting for impending doom.

I feel like this so much! You described it spot on. I have tears of happiness each day I can experience the love I've always desired.

I Could not be more greatful of the wholeness I have started to feel after hearing you so thank you for sharing. Moreover, a significant difference in your help from other self help guides is in the way you give priority to integration within our emotions by healing them first, and so true that we have to feel self-worth before actually knowing how to accomplish good for us. God bless you teal.

Thank you Teal !! I really needed this topic, as it applies to my situation, right on time and I need the posetivity

Your helping me unlock truly scary powers, a nearly decade old you.

I was thinking of keeping a gratitude journal, bought the notebook and then Teal mentions it. That’s synchronicity!!!

I just discovered your work via your interview with Sean Stone on LIPTV. You rock Teal. Keep shining sister!

Ive nothing negative to say about this woman . But if you people think she reads any of this,she doesnt. The videos are here. The work is done. Were basically talking amongst ourselves.

I used to be positive and had good things happen to me. But one day, something unexpected happened and it made me hit the rock bottom. Since then, I’m afraid to hope too much and always expect the worst. But it doesn’t help either. I just want to find balance.

I used to have this idea, that it's always gonna happen, what you had never expected would happen. And therefore I tried to think of all the bad things that could happen, so "the universe" wouldn't give me that. The anxiety, that came with this was, that it felt like it's my fault, when something bad happened, because I didn't think of that outcome before. But I got over that, now. Thank you for this video! :) I am learning so many helpful things from you.

Thanks Teal for another practical and very helpful spiritual teaching. Peace be with you.

Teal, I respect you. What is upsetting to me is you offer problems without solutions.

If we create our own reality how is there X % we can't control?

This amazing video help me so much!. One of the amazing tips for me was learning that the things I am sensing are called synchronicity . And the idea to do a diary of all the synchronicities that happens. I just reaped a lot of previous synchronicities and taped them and will write them. Bless you for you care and guidance Teal. 😻🙏

1:24, 2:39, 3:35, 6:22 LOA is impartial and magnifies your feelings = your vibration = match to external circumstances 6:53 7:12 tragedy is a match to grief or loss 7:46 stats 🧮 8:02 22% Petty worry! Unrelated to catastrophe 8:25 8(4+4)% 9:03 What do we doo

This woman is so beautiful that I sometimes can't remember what she just said...

When I'm feeling really low teal always turns it around for me

Hi, I'm sharing a post to Stephanie Fleitas' vid of her interview with Teal. I'm sharing this here as well because I'd like to share my thoughts on Teal, for both the skeptics and the followers and everyone in between. I first became aware of Teal Scott, now Teal Swan, 2 years ago when searching for youtube vids about the Akashic Records. I viewed her part 1 and part 2 consecutively and then went to her sight and viewed ALL of her Ask Teal videos. WOW I found, and still find, her to be quite magnetic and her message completely resonates with me. In the beginning what I locked me in was not simply her admission and awareness of her childhood, intense as it is to understand, but it was the fact of her being born of (sent from) the 5th dimension, agreed to come in as a beautiful and wretched female, willing to go through one of THE most horrific early life experiences, surviving it and then integrate into a being that not only 'knows' from the 5th dimension knowledge bank but the whole of it (all 11 or so dimensions). I started with Wayne Dyer and Deepak Chopra. I found Sonia Choquette, Abraham Hicks, Neil Donald Walsh and Shirley MacLaine. One by one I read, listened to, practiced with their interpretations... all the while trying to unlock what has been hidden in me. I found manifesting to be a fun activity - though I'd still been allowing worry, rather resistance, TO my worry and fears, to help manifest 'from the broken me, trying to integrate". Of course, I didn't know that then.... instead i was, well, you get it. It was Spirituality 2.0 and invariably the secret outing of 3.0 that has been the most interesting facet yet. Falling into the fear, the worry... allowing myself to feel it, to see it, to swim in it and ultimately to integrate it. I'm by no means 'there' yet. It's been so recent... but I feel for the first time that I'm going beyond what I could possibly know and into what resonates perfectly... been seeing these aspects of myself as "broken" and "needing to be fixed" instead of seeing them as repeating as way of being accepted, as allowing them (fears, worries) to be part of the whole instead of pushed away like something unwanted. In fact, I didn't want them. I wanted to get far away from them, feared the fears and worried about the worries - as if they weren't part of the whole experience, ok and part of it. They were Bad and I worried that the actual thoughts of them (fears and worries) would just keep creating more... in fact it has been the resistance to integrating them that's been causing a lot of the suffering - matched vibrational situations that 'felt bad' and caused what I deemed, "self SABOTAGE". Even as I say this I am still working on accepting my fears and worries... so far I've sat in a meditation or two that were intentionally and solely about "Falling Into My Fears and Worries"... allowing myself to cry and hate and be angry and being IN those emotions and WOW what a neat meditation to do for the self. What came to me most valuable was seeing myself in a cave with a cliff and water below the cliff. Standing at the precipice I realized that the pool below was my integrated emotions and all I had to do was HUG my fears, WEAR my fears and then jump in together... I Saw my emotion a red yet the pool was black... first thought it was all emotions integrated - but that would be white wouldn't it? Seemed like I was shedding the red and maybe going from black to white WILL be the full integration - as I don't feel that I'm wholly integrated yet - still resisting some worries and some fears... and for the first time ever in my whole nearly 50 years of living do I know that I'm closer to... whatever it is that my projected self is to gain from my other dimensional self. I know I"m separated still... not completely integrated - and for a long time I lamented this separation - but what feels really SUPER good to me now is that it feels like the process of integration IS my path - or something I really meant to do here - for myself and for the planet of physically based reality. It's a work in progress... Sharing a little of my experience with Teal because I've really been able to understand her teachings - so much more so than all of the others combined. .. and actually I think I saw the Secret before I ever read any of Wayne's or Deepak's works (and I have A LOT of their books, separate and ones they've worked on together). I was searching for 'whatever it is that I get from her teachings". Here's something interesting... JUST this WEEK, I've been focused on my fears of sabotage - thinking the worst of my worries will manifest - and yes this within my process of integration - and lo and behold, what's this Saturday's vid? "How to Stop Expecting the Worst - Catastrophizing!!! I mean, how awesome. It's more of the same NEWER teachings (2.0 +) of going INTO the worst case scenario that keeps coming up in thought, bubbling up in worry and fearful emotions that feel BAD. Geezus - talk about manifesting. One last thing I'll share - I know this is a very long post - is that about mmm 5-6 months ago I painted the words "Joyfully Co-Create" on the wall of my bedroom that the door opens to (meaning behind my bedroom door on the wall that faces my bed). I have the door open most of the time - so I wasn't seeing it with any regularity. I'd written it after a teaching that resonated with me (just as I have written "The Key to Happiness is to Decide to be Happy" in the living room, "Serenity, Namaste & Blessed" on other walls as well as "Spirit is the only reality" and "To have peace, teach peace to learn it" on other bedroom walls" - as they resonate so shall I remind myself - so you get a bit of "me" and the stuff I do for my awakening). I saw an interview with Teal and Nova Zem from June of this year and he eluded to Spirituality 3.0 as (in other words) Joyfully Co-create!! That 3.0 was more than moving towards your happiness/desires (1.0) and more than falling into the emotional healing work and accept all is as IS (2.0) but to go beyond that and to create IN THIS MOMENT as if there was the sole joy of creating Just to Create - and the appreciation that goes along with knowing this (not HOW but At All) and the gratitude that simply accompanies it. Talk about WOW. I hope her message and the messages of other talented and awakened humans get more immersed in our society - especially for today's teens and younger generations... can you imagine in this lifetime our planet healing, our species remembering that we asked for contrast to "know ourselves" and being better served to emanate at our highest vibrations? Talk about a WOW concept. Good luck in finding your way back to the US or ALL of US... I'll see you there, one moment at a time I guess. Namaste

She’s right on all of it. And gorgeous

Your clarity is so refreshing. Thank you for this.

A beautiful girl with a beautiful soul and a beautiful mind..God bless you for this video

you are so good at articulating things that I know deep down that no one really talks about

Last night before bed I was catastrophizing when I saw the the number 23.23 on my tablet This morning I tune in to this video and see its 23 minutes and 23 seconds ..synchronicity x

She described my life in the first minute and a half 😞 Have someone felt this way and being able to get out that stage?

Thank you, Teal. I just simply love you ❤️

Thank You so much Teal, I feel much better after getting in touch with my current biggest fear.. and I went to the (for me) worst case scenario.. and I feel SO releaved.. thank You!!!! Namaste

God bless you!! Hugs from Argentina, South America! Thanks for sharing this video =) !!

Love you, Teal & Team. Thank you for being a light and guiding us back home :)

Dear Teal, This video absolutely blew me away. Every sentence was powerful. Not to mention you are not only spiritual, wise and calm, but seriously very attractive. Obviously you're spoken for (shucks :P) but I hope to find someone like you. Keep up this amazon work! Namaste

Thank you thank you!! Thank you so much. I've been worried for the past week about someone close to me that might get sexually abused at her workplace. And then I found that the more I don't wanna think about it, the more I did. I've been hoping you would do a video about this for the past week. The last tip at the end really really helped. Thank you.

I absolutely love love your guidance and advice such a beautiful intelligent person thanks for giving all these tips i watch your videos alot and are definitely helping thank you for sharing!! 😀✨💞

Lately it’s been good. Which I should be happy but during times like these I get so worried and expect something bad to happen. It always happens this way.

I needed this...I am stuck thinking about te worst I even lost intrest in life...:(