Banish Worry with these 4 Habits

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow.
It empties today of its strength.” – Corrie ten Boom

While you and I probably will not be facing the kind of issues that Corrie and her family faced, let’s agree that worry is not something that either of us want to hang onto.

1 SPIRITUAL HABIT TO BANISH  WORRY

You will not miss out on what Your God has for you.

Believe you will have good in your Life. Visualize positive outcomes. Worry and Abundance can not occupy the same space. You decide which one your mind gives priority to.

3 SCIENCE BASED HABITS TO BANISH  WORRY

Make an appointment with yourself to worry.

If its important enough that your mind keeps coming to it, then get out your calendar, and set aside a time and place to worry about it. Give yourself a full uninterrupted 15 minutes to do nothing but worry. Seriously, there is no purpose to half worry about anything, and you are busy. So if you catch yourself worrying at a time other than your designated worry time, you must make a point to think of something else. Use your “worry time” productively by thinking of solutions to the worries. Write the solutions down quickly, schedule additional time for a later date if it is not resolved and move on to your next task.

PRACTICAL TIP: Schedule the appointment at a time at least 2 days; there is power in letting things settle down and rest. Sometimes issues resolve themselves, and you do not want to use valuable worry time on something that , if you had waited a day, you would not have needed to worry about at all.

Accept the worry, and move on in life.

Do not suppress your feelings. You are entitled to have and feel emotions. Worry is initiated when your imagination grabs ahold of unprocessed emotions. So, experience and acknowledge how you are feeling ( even write it down so you won’t forget) and then move on. Do not let your imagination get ahold of your feelings. If you find yourself worrying, force yourself to fully imagine at least one other alternative ending.

Exercise.

Ugh. I know, I know…I hate this one. If you love exercising, then good for you. I am sincerely and utterly proud of you. Exercise makes serotonin , chemical that makes you happy and sleep well. So, if you are worried….Exercise.

If you do not like to exercise, exercise anyway. Aerobic exercise is probably best, but at least walk to the refrigerator 2 times more than you need to, hold onto the sides of the refrigerator and lean in real far, stretching your arms and shoulders muscles. Open and close the front door two times before you leave the house. Incorporate more moving into your day.