{"id":7695,"date":"2026-08-25T04:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceinhealth.com\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:47:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:47:31","slug":"how-to-calm-anxious-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceinhealth.com\/de\/2026\/08\/25\/how-to-calm-anxious-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Stress expert: A new way to calm anxious thoughts and slow down a brain that’s stuck in “overdrive”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s 7pm.<\/span><\/p>

You closed your laptop an hour ago. The commute is done. You’re home.<\/span><\/p>

Und doch.<\/span><\/p>

Your brain is still at the office.<\/b><\/p>

You’re replaying the meeting from this afternoon. Running through tomorrow’s to-do list. Half-watching something on TV while mentally composing an email you haven’t sent yet.<\/span><\/p>

You know you’re tired. Your body is telling you that clearly enough.<\/span><\/p>

But your mind won’t land.<\/span><\/p>

And later – somewhere between 2 and 4 in the morning – your eyes snap open. Already alert. Already thinking. As if some part of you never actually stopped.<\/span><\/p>

If this sounds familiar, I want to say something that many people I work with are surprised to learn:<\/span><\/p>

Dein <\/span>Nervensystem<\/b> may not be receiving the signal that the working day is over<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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I’ve been working as a cognitive hypnotherapist for over a decade, helping people with anxiety, burnout, chronic stress, insomnia, and emotional overwhelm – particularly people in demanding jobs, long hours at a desk, and high-pressure environments.<\/span><\/p>

When people sit down with me, they often say:<\/span><\/p>

“You must think I’m crazy.”<\/span><\/i><\/p>

“You’ve probably never heard anything like this before.”<\/span><\/i><\/p>

And I always tell them the same thing: everybody comes with a bowl of spaghetti. Tangled, overwhelming, impossible to see clearly. What we do together is help it become organised – flatter, clearer, easier to understand.<\/span><\/p>

But with one particular pattern, I kept noticing something that felt different from ordinary stress.<\/span><\/p>

These people were exhausted. Genuinely, deeply exhausted.<\/span><\/p>

And yet somehow still alert. Still scanning. Still on.<\/span><\/p>

As if their nervous system never fully got the message that the stressful part was over.<\/span><\/p>

One client described it to me perfectly:<\/span><\/p>

“My body feels tired but my brain is wide awake.”<\/i><\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Here is something most stress advice never tells you.<\/span><\/p>

Your nervous system cannot always tell the difference between a deadline and a physical threat.<\/b><\/p>

To your body, back-to-back meetings, a difficult conversation with a manager, a full inbox waiting for you, the pressure of always being available – these register as <\/span>ongoing demand.<\/span><\/i> As something to stay ready for.<\/span><\/p>

And so it stays ready.<\/span><\/p>

Your autonomic nervous system has two primary modes:<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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