Escape The Trap Of Useless Anxiety

By zoe | Feb 21, 2009

With the way the world is today, it’s vitally necessary that you learn how to free yourself from worry. Despite misguided opinion to the contrary, worry does more harm than good.  In fact, free-floating anxiety reduces our ability to function well.

Worry is visualizing the future in a negative way.  It robs the present moment of its joy.  Done regularly, it distorts a person’s view of realtiy.  They see things through a cloudy lense.

The good news is, the degree to which we spend our time in anxious thinking is something we have control over – again, despite what many people believe.

For example, many people attribute their worry to outside events.  They think that worry is their only possible way to react to an unpleasant external event.  If someone does this, they’ve given up control.

Many people believe that worry is necessary and useful.

There are many such fallicies in circulation.

As a start to escaping pointless anxiety, you may want to examine your beliefs concerning the purpose of worry.  Why are you doing it?  Do you think it’s a productive use of time?  You won’t be able to free yourself from worry if you don’t understand why you’ve been doing it in the first place.

Some people think that worry is necessary and productive. Such people believe that worrying is a sign of maturity and being responsible, or that worrying is how you find a solution to a problem.

None of that is correct.

Excessive worry is more a sign of inability to gain a proper perspective.  Rather than helping you find a solution, it keeps you stuck in the problem.  The productive thing to do is to spend only enough time on what the problem is and what might go wrong as it takes to identify the issues, then focus on working on the solution.

Some people spend time worrying because they feel that it’s somehow protective.  Bad things won’t happen if they worry about them.

That feeling comes close to being a superstition.  All worry does is keep you finding workable solutions. When someone worries, their mind is filled with thoughts of terrible things that may or may not happen in the future.

As you consider your beliefs about worry youll likely come to the conclusion that it’s hurting rather than helping you.  Personally I believe that we’d all be happier if we spent less time worrying and more time imagining a brighter future.

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:

http://www.jfmccaffreymd.com/

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