Submitted:
By Stu Granick, Creative Promotions
You
do not need to be a victim of worry.
Reduced to its’ simplest
form, what is worry?
It
is simply an unhealthy
and
destructive mental habit.
you
were not born with the worry habit;
You acquired it.
And
because you can change any habit
and
any acquired attitude, you can cast
worry from your
mind.
Since aggressive, direct
action is essential in the elimination
process, there is just
one
proper time to begin an effective
attack on worry,
and
that is now.
So let us start breaking
your worry habit at once.
Why
should we take the worry problem
seriously? The reason is clearly
stated by Dr. Smiley Blanton, eminent
psychiatrist, “Anxiety is the great
modern plague.
A famous psychologist asserts that
“fear is the most disintegrating
enemy of human personality,”
and
a prominent physician DECLARES,
“worry is the most subtle
and
destructive of
all
human diseases.”
Another physician tells us
that thousands of people
are
ill because of “dammed-up anxiety.”
These sufferers have been unable
to expel their anxieties which have
turned inward on the personality,
causing many forms of ill-health.
The destructive quality of
worry is indicated by the
fact
that the word itself is derived
from an old Anglo-Saxon word MEANING,
“To choke.”
If someone were to put his
fingers around your throat
and
press hard, cutting off the
flow
of vital power, it would be a dramatic
demonstration of what you do to
yourself by long-held
and
habitual worry.
But do not be discouraged for you
can overcome your worries.
There is a remedy that will
bring you
sure
relief, It can help you break the
worry habit.
And
the first step to take in breaking
it is simply to believe that you
can.
And
here, then, is a practical procedure
which will help to eliminate abnormal
worry from your experience.
Practice emptying your
mind
daily,
This should be done preferably
before retiring at night to avoid
the retention by the consciousness
of worries while you sleep.
During sleep, thoughts tend
to sink more deeply into the subconscious
the last five minutes before going
to sleep
are
of extraordinary importance, for
in that brief period the
mind
is most receptive to suggestion.
It tends to absorb the last
ideas that
are
entertained in waking consciousness.
This process of
mind
drainage is important in overcoming
worry, for fear thoughts, unless
drained off, can clog the
mind
and
impede the
flow
of mental
and
spiritual power.
Here’s a
ten-point
worry-breaking formula designed
to help you go to
work
Now-break the worry habit!
1.
Say to yourself, “Worry is just
a very bad mental habit.
And I can change any habit”
2. You become a worrier by practicing
worry.
You can become free of worry
by practicing the opposite
and
stronger habit of faith.
With
all
the strength
and
PERSEVERANCE you can command, start
practicing faith.
3. How do you practice faith? First
thing every morning before you rise,
say
out
loud,
“I believe,” three times.
4.
Personal Prayer
5.
Practice saying something positive
concerning everything about which
you’ve been talking negatively.
Talk positively.
For example, don’t say, “This
is going to be a terrible day. “Instead,
affirm, “This is going to be a glorious
day. “Don’t say, “I’ll never be
able to do that. “Instead, affirm,
“I will do that.”
6. Never participate in a worry
conversation.
Shoot an injection of faith
into your conversations.
A group of people talking
pessimistically can infect every
person in the group with negativism.
But by talking things up
rather
than
down you can drive off that depressing
atmosphere
and
make everyone feel hopeful
and
happy.
7.
One reason you are a worrier is
that your mind is literally saturated
with apprehensive thoughts, defeat
thoughts, gloomy thoughts.
Clear
your mind.
8.
Cultivate friendships with hopeful
people.
Surround yourself with friends
who think positive, faith-producing
thoughts and who contribute to a
creative atmosphere.
This will keep you stimulated
with positive attitudes.
9.
See how many people you can help
to cure their worry habit. In helping
another to overcome worry you get
greater power over it within yourself.
10. Every day of your
life
conceive yourself as living positively
happy.
