Had a conversation yesterday that send my mind on a time trip remembering my mother. She was a worrier. I think she worried herself to death.
The guy who “styled” my hair back in the 70s told me, “I’m a worrier. All of us German immigrants are. It’s part of the genes.”
Worry is the fear of what might happen.
Most things that might happen, never do. Some things that happen, you have no control over. Rationally, there is little reason for worry.
But most of us do.
This goes along with yesterday’s meditation on fear.
We fear so many things. We worry about much.
Jesus said, why worry?
I was a child of my mother. But I changed. I seldom worry now. Just like I’ve conquered about 98% of my fearfulness.
How?
- Deliberately choose something else to think about
- Start to work on a project
- If in the middle of the night, either set imagination on another topic–or–get up and read the Bible, a good novel, your Mandarin Chinese lesson
- Work though the one think among your worries that you can control and develop a project list of tasks to cover it.
Viktor Frankl, psychologist, developer of Logotherapy, survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, discovered it for himself, “The ultimate freedom is the freedom to choose my attitude in the face of uncertain circumstances.”
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