The smell as a way out of the circle of disturbing thoughts

Obsessive thoughts often feel like an inner circle that is difficult to break out of. A person returns to the same questions, checks, fears and scenarios over and over again: "What if...?", "What if...?", "What's wrong with me?", "Why do I feel this?" Over time, anxiety begins to live not only in my head, but also in my body: tension appears in my chest, stomach, throat, shoulders, jaw; breathing becomes uneven; the body seems to be giving danger signals all the time. And the more a person tries to urgently “turn off” thoughts, the more they can become fixed. At such moments, you don't need to fight with yourself, but a way to gently switch from an anxious circle to the present. One of these ways may be the smell. In this module, you will learn how the smell can help with obsessive anxious thoughts, psychosomatic tension and physical manifestations of stress. Not as a magic remedy or as a substitute for specialist help, but as a sensory practice that helps return attention from endless analysis to the body, breathing and the reality of the current moment. You will learn to use the smell as a switching point: to stop the automatic scrolling of thoughts, notice the body, reduce internal control and take the first step from the state of “I'm stuck in anxiety” to the state of “I'm here again.” The smell should not “erase” obsessive thoughts. His task is to help a person get out of an anxious circle, return to the “here and now” and give the body a signal: “I can not continue this thought right now, I can exhale and feel the support.”