How Do You Break The Worry Habit?
Excessive and needless worry is a habit that can have a negative effect on your mental and physical health. It causes a lot of anxiety and the stress can make you physically ill. The only useful purpose of worry is when it motivates you to take action to prevent an unpleasant event that you can control. It becomes needless worry when it is about things out of your control and things you think about that could happen, but have not happened. Here are things you can do to avoid needless worry. Take an assessment of your worry. Sometimes people worry about so many things at one time, they lose track of what is causing the worry and anxiety. Make a list of what is bothering you. Look at each item and think about whether it is worth worrying about. It may be someone else’s problem and not yours. Let that person take care of it. Make a decision not to worry about it again. Take note of exactly what you are thinking about when you worry. Are you thinking about a bunch of ‘what ifs’ and becomin
