What’s The Point Of Worrying About Things? 5 Points That May Help
This isn’t a rhetorical question. ‘What’s the point of worrying about things?’ demands an answer. After all, worry can be a health risk. It can cause stress, high blood pressure and affect your digestion among other things. When all’s said and done, worry is the same as fear.
We worry because we don’t know what’s going to happen. We’re frightened because we’ve heard a sound around the corner, and we don’t know what it is. But then, in the same way as anxiety and panic attacks, worry has benefited mankind ever since the dawn of his history.
Without the ability to worry, mankind would have died out almost before it started. In those days on the plains and in the forests, we were the slowest and feeblest creatures alive. We had virtually no natural protection, and were food for any passing carnivore.
The one thing that prevented our demise was our brains.
They were better developed than the other living creatures around us, and we learned to use them. We were able to find out where danger lurked, or possibly lurked, and we’d therefore steer well clear.
The problem was, and still is, that if we simply worried about things and didn’t do anything about them, we wouldn’t progress very far.
In the old days, we’d worry about the possibility of a sabre toothed tiger hiding in a bush at the side of a path we wished to travel. If we didn’t investigate, then we’d never travel the path and we’d just stay in one spot.
So worry puts us on alert. But two things may happen. Either worry defeats us, or we defeat worry. In other words, we can worry to such an extent that we make ourselves ill and we can make ourselves ill to such an extent, that we suffer a nervous breakdown.
The alternative is to keep worry under control. It isn’t a bad idea to spend half an hour a day worrying. Take this one step further. Take out our journal and, yes, that’s right, write it down! I’m a great believer in the old saying, ‘A problem shared is a problem halved.’
Now writing things down on a piece of paper isn’t quite the same thing, but you’d be surprised how close it comes. Try doing it this way;
1. “I’m worried about…”
2. “The worst thing that could happen is…”
3. “The best thing that could happen would be…”
4. “Things I can do now…”
5. “Other factors to bear in mind…”
This brings all your concerns to the fore in an organized manner. You can write out what’s troubling you and then leave it alone for a while.
Up to the stage of writing down your worries, they were milling around in your head in no particular order, one piling on top of the next, so there was no chance of solving anything.
Now, at least, you have a plan.
I was always a terrible worrier. I’d worry about there being nothing to worry about! I do hope this article helps you to at least organize your concerns. There’s a wonderful free download on my Website about worry. All you need to do is to click on The Hypnosis Attraction and you’ll find it.