The Worry Habit

Before I go, here's something for you (students and teachers alike) to ponder:

edited extract from

http://www.anxietyculture.com/worry.htm

Once acquired, the habit of worrying seems hard to stop. We are raised to worry and are not considered "grown up" until we perfect the art.

Teenagers are told: "you'd better start worrying about your future".

If your worries aren't at least as frequent as your bowel movements, you're seen as irresponsible, childish, aimless. That's a "responsible adult" game rule.

Worrying is never useful. Worrying only appears useful because problems are often solved after a period of worrying. Perhaps we make a (false) connection between the worrying and the problem's solution.

The more it triggers the FOF with imagined threats, the more it prevents clear thinking.

[The "Fight Or Flight response" is our body's primitive, automatic, inborn response that prepares the body to "fight" or "flee" from perceived attack, harm or threat to our survival.] http://www.thebodysoulconnection.com/EducationCenter/fight.html

Minor worries may seem harmless. But the effect is cumulative, known as "stress".