90% of Your Worries Are Optional: Choosing Not to Worry Is a Skill
Put your worries to test: challenge them
A lot of the things we choose to worry about never happen.
It’s normal to feel stressed and worried sometimes, but when worrying starts to affect your day-to-day life, there may be something more going on.
We can choose to worry less and replace the negative stress process with positive habits. It’s harder than it sounds, though.
Choosing not to worry takes effort, patience and a lot of work. It’s not impossible, though.
If you can do something positive about your worry habit, other areas of your life will improve significantly.
The human brain is wired to worry. It connects bad events and finds reasons to panic by default, which is why negative news sells.
“For better or for worse, worrying is part of how we’ve evolved as humans. Biologically, our central nervous system often responds to stress and fear by worrying,” writes Maggie Wooll of BetterUp.
If you watch the news, you will notice that 90% of their report is bad news. That’s how the media is designed to get out attention. And the best way to do that is to focus on everything wrong in the world.
