Many times we often take the good things in life and make them bad. We often turn blessings into curses without realizing what you are doing. In an old song, Dusty Springfield talked about “Wishing and Hoping”. That same wishing and hoping is what often gets twisted and perverted into fretting and worrying. Instead of hoping for good outcomes, and having faith that good things will come about, you instead place your faith in unpleasant outcomes and fantasize about the worst that can happen. In the aftermath, you are vulnerable. Vulnerable to feelings of inadequacy and being incomplete. During those times, it is often tempting to imagine bad things happening. Worry occurs when your faith in the negative is stronger than your faith in positive outcomes.
Wishes and worries both involve faith. The main difference is the outcome that you have faith in.
In my mind, worry shares some commonality with witchcraft. Both involve you trying to control things with your mind. You have faith in your ability to control people and events by thinking about them. With worry, you likely do not cast spells, yet if your worry includes chanting, there is little to differentiate what you are doing from witchcraft spell casting. You are trying to change events and people. The logic is that if you worry enough, it will change things. The logic is more worry = more control. Mentally, you may even plot and plan out every eventuality that could happen. The sad part is that what you imagined happening, the way you imagined it happening rarely occurs. There is a BIG difference between worry and experience. Experience is when you have lived through similar situations and you are familiar with the pattern. Worry occurs when you have not been through the experience before and are basing all your ‘mental possibilities’ on what your own mind has imagined. The more you give into the imaginations, the stronger they will become. So much like a diet involves changing what you eat and how you eat, overcoming worry involves changing what you think and how you think.
Best Regards,
Jeff Murrah
