"Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.”

Worry Never Works.

NEVER...Worries waste your valuable time and energy; worries drain you.

Even if worries are a natural characteristic of human nature they are also one of the most well-known stressors.

Worries start to affect us in a negative way when they become chronic: the worries repeat, go on and on all the time, in never ending circle.

Cyclic worries lead to the serious wreck of the nervous system, phobias, obtrusiveness neurosis, anxiety and fear.

Lets take a closer look how chronic worries affect you.

• Keeps your mind focused on looking for problems, difficulties or disasters
• Leads to poor concentration
• Focuses your attention onto yourself and your own concerns
• Makes it more difficult to make decisions
• Makes you tend to predict the worst, due to negative thinking habits
• Makes you more problem-focused as opposed to solution-focused

• Makes you less efficient
• Interferes with your performance
• Makes you self-reliant
• Makes you less confidently

• Reduces your ability to relax
• Reduces your ability to sleep well
• Makes you weary and tired
• Makes you tense
• Gives you headaches
  
• Take toll on your heart

• Makes you feel confused
• Makes you feel apprehensive or afraid
• Makes you feel out of control
• Makes you feel that you can’t cope

There are many ways we can get rid of worries.

I want to show some simple techniques you could start applying right now.

- Start with never criticizing yourself

- 'Box' your worries

- Plan in some ‘worry time’

- Refraiming

Start with being gentle with yourself, approve of yourself and keep encouraging yourself. ‘You can heal your life’ states Louise Hay in her book You Can Heal Your Life.

Imagine putting all our worries, one by one, into a box and closing the lid – or encase them in a bubble and watch them float out of sight. The more strongly you imagine this the more effective it will be.

Practice it regularly. If you are worried about forgetting something important, write it down before trying to forget about it.

If you are overwhelmed by your worries, set aside a regular half hour every day to worry.

If you start to worry at other times, postpone the worry to the ‘worry time’ and focus on what you are doing.

When the worry time comes around, deal with each worry in turn, tackling it as a problem to solve.

This strategy affects the worry in two ways: it builds a wall around the process and stops it from spreading and it turns the worry into something more constructive.

This is another strategy for getting bad events into perspective.

One way to reframe events is to reevaluate them as 'disappointing', 'concerning', or 'uncomfortable' rather than 'awful' or 'unbearable'.

Another way is to see that even negative events almost always have a positive side to them, listing all the positives you can think of.

"Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining"...while refraiming your worry try to find that silver lining.

Change isn't always easy, especially when you doubt about where to start.

Stress management coaching enables you to identify the sources of stress in your life and equips you with techniques to manage stress more effectively and reach the permanent stress reduction and stress relief results.

Are you ready to manage stress before it manages you, your health and your professional and personal life?

Don’t hesitate to contact me at info@action4balance.com to find out how I can best help you.

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