Wellbeing Wisdom Tiny Bites - Worrying About Worrying

Do you worry? Have you been called a worry wart? What the heck is worry, anyway?

Worry in a person with a normally-functional brain is a bad habit that the brain has created – that’s all it is. Our brains have a negativity bias, which means that it’s easier to think a negative thought than it is to think a positive one. Over time, you have let the brain focus on potential negative outcomes, which created the tendency to worry, because the brain developed the habit, or pattern, of focusing on potential negative outcomes.

Has worry ever fixed anything in your life? Probably not. And if you really think about it, the things you’ve worried about probably haven’t even come to pass.

When you worry, you flood your body with stress hormones as it prepares to deal with the bad situation. Put up your mental stop sign at the first sign of worry, and do your best to think of a potential positive outcome instead of a negative one. Get in the habit of anticipating good outcomes instead of bad ones and watch your worry wart tendencies fade away.

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