Does anyone else have a ‘help me get through this ‘ Mantra?

“I can do this”

It makes a good accompaniment to the Butterfly Hug on You Tube where you link your thumbs, place the palms of your hands on your upper chest and give yourself gentle, reassuring butterfly taps.

Did anyone else love butterfly kisses from a parent’s eyelashes as a young child?

Nothing lasts forever! is my mantra especially to my daughter when my granddaughter won’t sleep ? somehow don’t think it helps much......x

I'm a fretter, a worrier, I know it, it's part of my personality to dwell and fester on stuff .... Mantra's, I've a couple I use to give my brain a little space from the constant internal noise of worry.

When I was pregnant my boss was awful awful awful, eventually sending me a letter on my birthday (I'd booked a week off two months before baby was due as I was exhausted) saying he didn't expect me back and I'd be better finding a job nearer to home after the baby was born. I used to sing a couple of lines from the Bobby McFerrin song - Don't worry, be happy, it was a hit in 1988 when I was pregnant.

Andrew Lloyd Webbers Jesus Christ Superstar - Everything's Alright is good too -
Try not to get worried, try not to turn on to
Problems that upset you, oh
Don't you know
Everything's alright, yes, everything's fine
And we want you to sleep well tonight
Let the world turn without you tonight
If we try, we'll get by, so forget all about us tonight

Now my Catholic upbringing prompts a few lines that pop into my head when it all gets too much, things are out of my control; it won't be for everyone but .... Put your trust in God, and God will see you through, put your trust in God, he has a special plan for you.

Just enough to give my brain time to calm and refocus.

Mine is ...Never give up...Never surrender!

‘The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms’ is always a good one.

I am not sure that I have a mantra as such but if something is awful, I work on the assumption that every day that passes is a day closer to it being over.
When I lost my little girl, I was grief stricken but I watched women on Comic Relief who had lost their entire family because their enemy wanted to decimate their race. It made me feel luckier in that I still had my other children and husband which in turn made me feel, "If I can get through this, I can get through anything."

Mine is from the Great Marigold Hotel film.

"It will be alright in the end, and if it is not alright, it is clearly not the end..."

I’m going to be/do the opposite , I will let the older me take over, may even result in a few previously unsaid comments popping out ??

Urgh. I feel (and look probably) about 100 at the moment.

I just keep thinking Che sera, sera, whatever will be will be.
However much we try to predict our future, Che Sera Sera.
Nice little tune too.

I keep thinking of what Captain Sir Tom said- Tomorrow will be a good day

When I moved on from my marriage and started my own
life and business

'everything's goin to be alright,
just take one step a day'

My daughters says they now chant that when the going
gets tough and they sent me a video link of someone
singing that song in a remix, brought tears to my eyes.

You are the master of your own happiness!

'This too will pass'

I try to channel me inner Gloria Gaynor.....

'I will survive' and/or
'I am what I am'

Oops my not me!

LondonMzFitz I used to sing that song from Jesus Christ Superstar as a lullaby to my children! Nice memory!

I say Anne Frank!! To myself!!
She did almost 3 years in almost total silence! At least I can go for a walk or phone a friend ?

Nowt worse than a 'Stray P' upsadaisy1! ?

‘Now Is All’ - it helps me focus back on today and stops me worrying about tomorrow.

I've always said tomorrow's another day.
I've recently adopted what Captain Sir Tom said, tomorrow will be a good day.

A few years ago, dreading the funeral of a close family member, I wrote, in my head, a mantra that I still use now if I am fearful about something in the future:

It will come and it will go,
Whether fast or whether slow,
One thing that I surely know is
It will come and it will go.........

Like tabbycat, one of my mantras is: "just keep swimmimg....." from the film "Finding Nemo". And like other GNs here, another is: "all things must pass...." (Which is also the title track of a great album by George Harrison, circa 1970.)

Just wait and see what tomorrow brings.....

I second fevertree and the Bob Marley song, just lovely.

When I nursed my mother at the end, I used to tell myself to “Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood” Henry V and to “gird up my loins”.