STOP WORRYING

If you want to stop worrying, then you need to stop thinking so much. Thinking is a good thing of course, but when you focus a lot of time over analysing things, it can cause a lot of stress. Sometimes worrying can be beneficial  because it’s your mind’s way of acknowledging the importance of the situation. However, many times we worry excessively for invalid reasons.      I would tell you a couple of different ways to help you to worry a little bit less.

When we worry, what we are actually doing is projecting our mind out into the future. We picture negative scenarios and images. We think about the worse possible situations. Students may spend a lot of time worrying about how they did on the test they just took. The person who is running late and is stuck in traffic,is worried about what people will think of him when he shows up to the meeting late. 

In all of these situations, the person is worried about something that hasn’t happened yet. Not only that, they are worried about something that they have no control over at the present moment. If you want to know how to stop worrying, then you need to learn how to be in the moment. Realize that the majority of things people worry about coming true,(negative things) never come true. You can spend a great majority of your life worrying yourself to the point where you start to lower your happiness level. You may even start to draw back from life because you’re afraid of every possible negative situation that you have imagined in your head coming true.

So how do you just stop worrying about everything? Here’s a simple rule. If you can’t do anything to improve the situation at the moment, let it go. Stop worrying so much about things that you have no control over. The student who is worried about what score he got is just wasting his time because what’s done is done. Whether he spends his time worrying or having fun, it’s not going to change the outcome. A student who applies for a study permit and keeps thinking whether his documents are in place, whether or not the documents are in place he/she would still get a response from the embassy.    

You can try writing down the things you are worried about and find out what percentage of those things actually come true. Once you realize that there was really no point in stressing over things you can do anything and once you stop worrying about everything, you will start to enjoy life a lot more.