Control Stress by Paul McKenna

Author:Paul McKenna
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2017-08-07T16:00:00+00:00

Remember, it is not important that you get a clear answer. Simply by viewing the problem from the perspective of the future, it will begin to change!

CHAPTER SEVEN

Making Peace with Your Mind

What’s the Use of Worrying?

“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”

THE DALAI LAMA

Although we have already seen how most worry is simply a halfway house on the way to a creative solution, sometimes knowing what can be done still isn’t enough to stop the train of worry thoughts in its tracks.

For example, I worked with a lady recently who was constantly worried about her young children getting out onto the street and being hit by a car. She was being tortured by her own mind, living through 30 road accidents a day in her head and constantly obsessing over whether the front gate was locked.

Although her “worry habit” was consuming her life and had begun to affect her health, when I asked her if it would be okay with her if we took her worry away, she looked terrified.

Because I know that all behavior has a positive intention, I asked her in what way she believed that her worry was serving her. She told me, “I worry to keep my children safe.”

Now, we all can recognize that there’s a huge difference between being a good and caring mother and stressing yourself out to the point of exhaustion. After making sure that she was already taking every reasonable precaution to keep her children safe, I pointed out to her that although the intention of her mind was positive, it was overdoing its job.

One simple way to get a better understanding of the function of worry is to look at where it sits on the following scale:

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