Catastrophic thoughts feel convincing because the brain treats imagined danger almost the same as real danger. When anxiety is active, your mind scans for threats and fills in the blanks with worst case scenarios. Not because they are likely, but because your nervous system is trying to protect you. Here’s the truth most people don’t realize. The probability of the majority of catastrophic thoughts coming true is extremely low. Studies on anxiety show that over 85 percent of the things we worry about never happen. And of the small percentage that do, most are handled better than we imagined. Your brain is not predicting the future. It is reacting to uncertainty. Thoughts are not facts. Fear is not intuition. And imagining an outcome does not make it more real. Learning to pause, question the thought, and come back to the present is how you take your power back. Calm is not the absence of problems. It is the ability to stay grounded even when the mind tries to spiral.