Are you a worrier?
We live in a world that has a negative default. This means that we are surrounded by more negative influences than we are positive influences.
Therefore there is always plenty to worry about IF you focus on the negative!
Calvin Coolidge is quoted as saying:
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Isn’t this true? How many of those things you worried about actually came true? And even those that did, you have to wonder if your worry made it possible for them actually happen.
Here’s a question for you:
How easy is it for you to worry when you are focused on positive thoughts?
It is not possible right?
Negative and positive thoughts don’t mix. Sure it is possible to go back and forth from one to the other, but they cannot dwell together.
The medical profession is becoming more and more alert to the relationship between what goes on in your mind and what is happening in your body.
Overcoming worry:
Your mind is like a muscle just the same as other parts of your body.
When you do not take care of those muscles, what happens?
Here are two more questions:
Are you in good physical condition? In an emergency, how fast could you run?
Of course in an emergency you would have a little help from your adrenaline, but nevertheless you would need to be fit to sustain a long run.
In the same way your mind needs to be in good condition.
Now, how do you get your body into shape? It takes daily exercise and right diet.
How do you get your mind into shape?
1. Consistent right diet
- This includes what you are listening to, watching and reading every day, as well as right food diet that will nourish your brain and keep it alert.
- Watch and listen to motivational and inspirational recordings and videos every day. Read from a non fiction book every day!
2. Consistent right exercise.
- Aerobic exercises are good for the brain.
- Read at least 10 pages of a non fiction book every day. Make notes from what you read.
- Meditate on words that will build your faith. For example The New Testament, Psalms or Proverbs in the Bible, the notes your made from your daily reading.
- Determine to speak only faith building positive words. Your brain responds to your voice!
Get your mind and your brain into shape and you will not fall into the futility of worry.
Then you will be equipped to conquer worry and focus on positive solutions.
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Did you notice that there are only two letters different between the two words worrier and warrior?