Given the state of the world today, it’s more important than ever that you learn how to free yourself from needless worry. Despite misguided opinion to the contrary, worry does more harm than good.  In fact, worry reduces our ability to function well.

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, how much we engage in worry is something we have control over – again, despite what many people say to the contrary.

Many people think whether or not they worry depends on external events.  They carry the belief that feeling anxious is the best response to an unpleasant external event.  If someone does this, they’ve given up control.

Others think that worry serves a useful purpose.

The more we look, the clearer it becomes that there are other mistaken beliefs as well.

So to begin freeing yourself from destructive anxiety, you may want to examine your assumptions concerning the role worry plays in your life.  Why do you spend time on?  Do you believe it somehow benefits you?  There has to be some percieved benefit for you to worry.  If you don’t recognize it, it will be harder to let worry go.

Some people believe that worry is unavoidable and useful. They believe that worrying is a sign of maturity and being responsible, or that worrying is a way to figure out an answer to a problem.

None of that is correct.

Spending a lot of time worrying is more a sign of inability to gain a proper perspective.  Instead of being a route to, it keeps you focused on the problem, not the answer to it.  The useful 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 focus on working on finding the solution.

Some people spend time worrying because they believe it somehow protects them from bad things happening.

Let’s face it, that way of thinking borders on superstition.  All worry does is keep you from living fully in the present. Worry fills a mind with bad possble outcomes that most likely will never happen.

As you consider your beliefs about worry youll likely come to the conclusion you’d be better off if you did less of it.  It’s my belief that we’d all be happier 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:

http://www.jfmccaffreymd.com/

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