Life can feel like a roller coaster ride, and I want you to climb into the front seat, throw your arms in the air, and enjoy the ride! There’s no getting away from the fact that life is full of ups and downs, as well as twists and turns, but success depends on how you choose to approach the ride. One day we can be sitting on top of the world and the next day we can be hit with a major problem that we do not know how to deal with. You feel that you are swaying unsteadily on a tightrope between one extreme and another, the good moments and the bad. Let’s accept that life is like a roller coaster ride. You start moving forward; a little bit hesitant and shaky as you set off on the journey. Next, you start climbing up, then drop down, up again, then down. In fact, there are a lot more ups and downs on this ride. There are some wild corners and you even get turned completely upside down a few times. Some parts of the ride will be frightening. Other parts of the ride are exciting and exhilarating. You begin to wonder whether you’ll ever reach the top. Soon you start to think, “Oh God, when will this end?” I can’t take much more. Believe in you is one of the first step to success. If you don’t have confidence in yourself, it will be difficult to succeed in anything. Self-belief is the point at which everything begins and without it, it is difficult to succeed. To do better for yourself, you must believe in yourself that you can succeed at what you are planning to do and that you are worthy for that success. Always think positive because negative talks kill your opportunities and create a doubt on your capabilities than it seems like an impossible goal to begin believing in yourself. So, it’s necessary to believe in yourself to overcome your doubt and disbelief in yourself. A famous psychologist asset that, “fear is the most disintegrating enemy of human personality and a prominent physician declares that “worry is the most subtle and destructive of all human diseases.” Thousands of people are ill because of dammed-up anxiety. These sufferers have been unable to expel their anxieties which have turned inward on the personality, causing many forms of ill-health. The destructive quality of worry is indicated by the fact that the word itself is derived from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning to choke. If someone were to put his fingers around your throat and press hard, cutting off the flow of vital power, it would be a dramatic demonstration of what you do to yourself by long held and habitual worry. You do not need to be a victim of worry. Reduce to its simplest form; it is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit. You were not born with the worry habit. You acquire it. And because you can change any habit and any acquired attitude, you can cast worry from your mind. Since aggressive, direct action is essential in the elimination process, there is just one proper time to begin an effective attack on worry, and that is now. So,let’s start breaking your worry habit at once. Dr. Smiley Blanton, an eminent psychiatrist, states, Anxiety is the great modern plague.
Do not be discouraged, for you can overcome your worries. There is a remedy that will bring you sure relief. It can help you break the worry habit. And the first step to take in breaking it is simply to believe that you can. Whatever you believe you can do, you can do, with God’s help. Here, then, is a practical procedure which will help to eliminate abnormal worry from your experience. Practice emptying the mind daily. This should be done preferably before retiring at night to avoid the retention by the consciousness of worries while we sleep. During sleep, thoughts tend to sink more deeply into the subconscious. The last five minutes before going to sleep are of extraordinary importance, for in that brief period the mind is most receptive to suggestion. It tends to absorb the last ideas that are entertained in waking consciousness. This process of mind drainage is important in overcoming worry, for fear thoughts, unless drained off, can clog the mind and impede the flow of mental and spiritual power. But such thoughts can be emptied from the mind and will not accumulate if they are eliminated daily. To drain them, utilize a process of creative imagination. Conceive of yourself as actually emptying your mind of all anxiety and fear. Picture all worry thoughts as flowing out as you would let water flow from a basin by removing the stopper. Fear is the most powerful of all thoughts with one exception, and that one exception is faith. Faith can always overcome fear. Faith is the one power against which fear can not stand. Day by day, as you fill your mind with faith, there will ultimately be no room left for fear. This is the one great fact that no one should forget. Master faith and you will automatically master fear. Empty the mind and cauterize it with God’s grace, then practice filling your mind with faith and in due course the accumulation of faith will crowd out fear. It will not be of much value merely to read this suggestion unless you practice it. The time to begin practicing it is now while you think of it and while you are convinced that the number one procedure in breaking the worry habit is to drain the mind daily of fear and fill the mind daily with faith. It is just as simple as that. Learn to be a practice of faith until you become an expert in faith. Then fear cannot live in you. The importance of freeing your mind of fear can not be overemphasized. Fear something over a long period of time and there is a real possibility that by fearing you may actually help bring it to pass. Surround your mind with healthy thoughts. Thoughts of faith and not fear and you will produce faith results instead of fear results. Strategy must be used in the campaign against the worry habit. A frontal attack on the main body of worry with the expectation of conquering it may prove difficult. Perhaps a more adroit plan is to conquer the outer fortifications one by one, gradually closing in on the main position. To change the figure, it might be well to snip off the little worries on the farthest branches of your fear. Then work back and finally destroy the main trunk of worry. Fill the mind with thoughts of God rather than with thoughtsfear, and you will get back thoughts of faith and courage. Worry is a destructive process of occupying the mind with thoughts contrary to God’s love and care. Basically, that is all worry is. The cure is to fill the mind with thoughts of God’s power, His protection, and His goodness. Many people fail to overcome such troubles as worry because; they allow the problem to seem complicated and do not attack it with some simple technique. It is surprising how our most difficult personal problems often yield to an uncomplicated methodology. This is due to the fact that it is not enough to know what to do about difficulties. We must also know how to do that which should be done. The secret is to work out a method of attack and keep working it. There is value in doing something that dramatizes to our own minds that an effective counter-attack is in process. In so doing we bring spiritual forces to bear upon the problem in a manner both understandable and usable.
(The Author is Research Fellow at United Nations World Peace Institute. Views are exclusively his own)
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