Show WORRY worry is an unhealthy condition of normal mind nad is is a direct manifestation of fear probably one of the richest drifts rifts with which we are endowed is the power of imagination yet imagination is a most prolific source of fear the chronic worrier usually has an overactive over active imagination an imagination out I 1 of control our specific worries may be slightly different but in the main they have the same basic c characteristics I 1 listen to the troubles of af others and they seem to be largely imaginary and trivial vial then I 1 think of my own and I 1 realize that my troubles can be correctly classified about the same dav T we do not rid ourselves of worra by evading our responsibilities nor by crawling out from under our til normal ormal load the first step away from worry is to courageously i ageous ly and honestly face our problems and to segregate the rea real effrom from the imaginary As the pr prospector os must learn I 1 ito to distinguish between gold and fools gold so must we learn to distinguish bet between aen real problems and worries thus we take stock of oual so called balled troubles and see how many we ve can dis discard i c ar first in this list should I 1 come the worries worries in anticipation of events possible to I 1 happen and which usually do not the remainder can be classified in the order of their importance and eliminated as fast as possible there is a message for us in the parting words of advice of the aped aged father to his son 1 I have had a great ideal deal of trouble in my life agrest a great deal of trouble but most of it never happened irrespective of ages most of us are like that old man Int in these bese times the successful hihn man has no time to worry he is too busy thinking and working out constructive ways to solve his problems lie he has learned to control his thoughts which is the secret of the elimination of worry john J thomas if I 1 |