How To Stop Excessive Worry
Archaeologists and other scientists suggest to us that civilization really began once we humans developed imagination.
The earliest cave paintings that have been found are dated to around 40,000 years old.
It was around this time that human beings enjoyed a sort of industrial revolution by developing very refined tools and weapons and generally changing the world around them.
But how does imagination come into all this? To make or create anything at all, it must all start in the mind.
We must 'see' it in our mind's eye first before it ever takes on any physical shape.
Once our ancestors found they had this ability to 'see' things in their mind's eye and then follow through and make them, there was no stopping them.
Anything was possible.
Since 40,000 years is a pretty short time, historically speaking, it may be said that not only is imagination a relatively new phenomenon on Earth, but once discovered, took off like a rocket! Other animal species seem to have this ability, but nothing approaching our level.
And to paraphrase Shakespeare; "What a piece of work is imagination.
" Without it, where would be our wonderful books.
Our palaces and buildings.
Our roads and cities.
Can we doubt that imagination is our finest psychological tool? Most unfortunately, though, imagination may be sadly misused, a subject we've touched upon before.
It must be said, though, that even worrying has its place, like panic attacks and anxiety.
That's why the article's entitled; "How To Stop Excessive Worrying," with the accent on 'excessive.
' When you're suffering the latter two you certainly don't think there's a place for them, but of course there is.
As far as worrying's concerned, suppose some chap walks up to you and tells you that if you give him $1,000, he'll quadruple that in six months.
The difficult part is that you know this has happened to other people.
Naturally enough, then, a nagging worry will be set up in your mind.
Should you or shouldn't you give him that $1,000? Worry goes hand in hand with imagination, doesn't it? In fact, our word 'worry,' comes from the old English word for 'strangle.
' But do you see where all this is leading? All the way back to our old friend 'imagination.
' It's a very fine line.
The negative part of imagination, which is really worrying, can hold us back from doing so much that either we feel we should do or would like to do.
We'd like to apply for that job.
We know we have the qualifications for it, but being an eternal worrier, we feel we'd mess it up somehow.
The truth of the matter is that the person who always worries throws him or herself into a state of self-hypnosis.
A form of paralysis.
There isn't a great deal of point in worrying if you don't plan to do something about it.
We'll go into this in much more depth in the next article.
The earliest cave paintings that have been found are dated to around 40,000 years old.
It was around this time that human beings enjoyed a sort of industrial revolution by developing very refined tools and weapons and generally changing the world around them.
But how does imagination come into all this? To make or create anything at all, it must all start in the mind.
We must 'see' it in our mind's eye first before it ever takes on any physical shape.
Once our ancestors found they had this ability to 'see' things in their mind's eye and then follow through and make them, there was no stopping them.
Anything was possible.
Since 40,000 years is a pretty short time, historically speaking, it may be said that not only is imagination a relatively new phenomenon on Earth, but once discovered, took off like a rocket! Other animal species seem to have this ability, but nothing approaching our level.
And to paraphrase Shakespeare; "What a piece of work is imagination.
" Without it, where would be our wonderful books.
Our palaces and buildings.
Our roads and cities.
Can we doubt that imagination is our finest psychological tool? Most unfortunately, though, imagination may be sadly misused, a subject we've touched upon before.
It must be said, though, that even worrying has its place, like panic attacks and anxiety.
That's why the article's entitled; "How To Stop Excessive Worrying," with the accent on 'excessive.
' When you're suffering the latter two you certainly don't think there's a place for them, but of course there is.
As far as worrying's concerned, suppose some chap walks up to you and tells you that if you give him $1,000, he'll quadruple that in six months.
The difficult part is that you know this has happened to other people.
Naturally enough, then, a nagging worry will be set up in your mind.
Should you or shouldn't you give him that $1,000? Worry goes hand in hand with imagination, doesn't it? In fact, our word 'worry,' comes from the old English word for 'strangle.
' But do you see where all this is leading? All the way back to our old friend 'imagination.
' It's a very fine line.
The negative part of imagination, which is really worrying, can hold us back from doing so much that either we feel we should do or would like to do.
We'd like to apply for that job.
We know we have the qualifications for it, but being an eternal worrier, we feel we'd mess it up somehow.
The truth of the matter is that the person who always worries throws him or herself into a state of self-hypnosis.
A form of paralysis.
There isn't a great deal of point in worrying if you don't plan to do something about it.
We'll go into this in much more depth in the next article.
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