Given the times we live it, it’s more important than ever that you learn how to free yourself from worry. Despite misguided opinion to the contrary, worry generally accomplishes nothing. It’s actually counterproductive.
Worry is imagining future unpleasant or unwanted outcomes as if they already happened. If we do that, we ruin a perfectly good present reality by dwelling on an imaginary possible future. Done regularly, it warps a person’s ability to see reality clearly and robs them of their vitality.
The good news is, the degree to which we spend our time in worrying is largely under our control – although some would have you believe otherwise.
Many people think whether or not they worry depends on external events. They believe that worry is the best way to react to a situation. If someone does this, they’ve given up control.
Many people believe that worry serves a useful purpose.
There are other mistaken beliefs as well.
So to begin freeing yourself from excessive worry, you need to examine your beliefs about the role worry plays in your life. What do you think it accomplishes? Do you believe it somehow benefits you? There has to be some percieved benefit for you to worry. If you don’t identify it, it will be harder to let worry go.
As I mentioned, some people believe that spending time worrying is unavoidable and productive. They believe that worrying is a sign of maturity and being responsible, or that worrying is how you find a solution to a problem.
Those beliefs are wrong.
Spending a lot of time worrying is more a sign of inability to gain a proper perspective. Rather than helping you find a solution, it keeps you focused on the problem, not it’s solution. The productive approach is to spend only enough time on what the problem is and what might go wrong as it takes to identify the issues, then immediately shift to working on the solution.
Another excuse people have to engage in worry is that they feel that it’s somehow protective. Bad things won’t happen if they worry about them.
Let’s face it, that way of thinking comes close to being a superstition. All worry does is keep you from enjoying the present moment. Worry fills a mind with bad possble outcomes that most likely will never happen.
The more you examine your beliefs about worry youll likely realize you’d be better off if you did less of it. Personally I believe that we’d all be less stressed if we could get worry under control.
Here’s a site that will help you start to Free Yourself From Worry immediately. Click on that link and you’ll get information you can apply today to start to get worry under control
And actually, you may want to check out the home page on that site. It has a bunch of information on health and wellness, stress management and just living well in general. Here’s the address:
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