Worry

Worry can make you sick. Yes, each highly negative thought permeates your body, causing your immune system to be compromised. Any effort to eliminate worry is a step in the right direction.

The next time you are faced with a heavily negative thought or problem, ask yourself these questions: What is good about this?

How can I turn this situation into something positive?

What can I learn from this?

Is it really that important?

Obviously, each problem you humans face in life is different, but if you look long enough for a positive solution, and still can’t find one, then the very act of thinking positive while searching for a solution is in itself a good and mentally healthy exercise.

If no immediate action is possible, create a plan, then forget about it until you need to take action. Stewing over things that cannot be immediately resolved is a waste of time, especially if you find out later that your concerns were over nothing at all.

There is positive energy for all negative energy, which is in step with the scientific theory that the energy of the universe is a constant that only changes form. Thoughts are energy. You can find positive things hidden in all negative situations if you look hard enough.

Even if you can’t find the positive in a situation, the act of searching will in the end make you a happier person, simply because positive thoughts are positive energy. Here is a real life example of a positive born of a negative:

While in pilot training a budding navy fighter pilot was in a horrible auto accident that required the removal of his spleen accompanied by a long and painful recovery. He eventually won his wings and went on to fly F-8 fighters off an aircraft carrier.

On a particular mission, there was an explosion in his fuel system that caused the plane to tumble uncontrollably, and oh yes, catch fire. His ejection seat malfunctioned and he had to jump out, risking hitting the tail as it raced by. He cleared the tail, only to find that when he pulled the D-ring that would deploy his parachute, his tumbling caused the chute lines to tangle around the canopy, rendering it useless. The pilot hit the ocean at high speed, sustaining major injuries that the flight surgeon told him would have killed him—if his spleen had not been removed years before.

Things that initially seem bad have ways of not being that bad later, or are catalysts that cause a person to move in a better direction, or as in the case of the pilot, the auto accident in training allowed him to survive a failed high speed ejection years later.

Is there an event that you have gone through that initially seemed like the worst that could possibly happen, only to find out later that it caused another positive event that would not have transpired without the “bad” experience? Think a while. Use the plan of action method mentioned above, whether your worries are financial, medical, marital, any kind of worry at all. All you have to do is try. Hey, stop worrying you knucklehead!

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