Do worries occupy your mind sometimes?
Why do you worry? You worry because you have fears or doubts or when you are uncertain about something.
Worries are thoughts that keep bothering you. You think, “What would happen if…”.
When you worry, various scenarios pass through the mind, but not all of them are real. Yet you suffer. Worries happen in your mind. This means that worry is a state of mind.
Worries are negative thoughts that keep repeating themselves. If you let them continue, they will get stronger and bother you more. They tend to grow if you don’t stop them.
Don’t Worry about What You Cannot Change
Do you often worry about things you cannot change? This is just a waste of precious time and energy.
You might say that you cannot stop worrying. That’s not correct. You can if you are earnest and persistent enough.
Sometimes, you can change situations and circumstances in your life. It would be best if you were decisive and acted. However, this is not always possible, and then you start worrying.
You cannot always change your environment and the events of your life, but you can learn to change your attitude toward them.
A change of attitude changes the way you see things, which positively affects how you feel. This also changes how the environment and events affect you.
Changing your state of mind has a favorable effect on your body, mind, and feelings.
It is always advisable to change your attitude to a more positive one. This would be easier if you associate with positive people, learn positive thinking, exercise your body, choose reading material that uplifts you, or find more reasons to laugh and smile.
You need to learn to calm down your mind. It would be best if you did so regularly and not only at the time when there are worries and problems.
Meditation, learning to focus the mind and relaxation, are also effective ways to calm the mind and avoid worries.
Imagine someone who doesn’t know how to swim falling into the water. He needs immediate help. You cannot start teaching him how to swim, but if he learned to swim before this event, there would have been no problem.
It is the same with being free from anxiety and worry. When you are undergoing a difficult time, you can use some first aid methods to keep your head above the water, but to remain peaceful and calm, unaffected by problems and worries, you should train yourself regularly.
How to Change Your State of Mind and Stop Worrying
- Engage in something interesting and which you love doing.
- When worried, get busy doing something.
- Never lose hope that the situation will improve.
- For a few minutes, think about your worries. Will they help you in any way or waste your time and energy? Do you want them? Of course, you don’t.
- Think about the fact that worries are just thoughts. They are negative thoughts, and therefore, you do not need them. If you keep thinking about them, they will grow and get stronger. Do you want that? No matter how difficult it might be, try focusing on solutions, not problems.
- In your mind, visualize yourself free from the problem causing the worry. If, for example, you have money worries, replace these thoughts with mental images of yourself having a job and money at the bank.
- Worry is a state of mind. When you change your state of mind, you relieve yourself of your worries and invite happiness and inner peace.
Here are a few articles that can help you get rid of worries:
12 Tips for Overcoming Anxiety
Peace of Mind Tips and Advice
