THE WORRY HABIT.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 20 January 1912, Page 10

THE WORRY HABIT.

Worry frequently robs us of our happiness, while it masquerades in the name of discretion,. carefulness, and conservatism. The common practice of repressing fean, doubt, suspiciofa, -Aixjd worrgr will never lead to their overthrow. The proper method of removing these mental states is to surrender the mind to their ppposites, to displace fear by faith, to dispel doubts by trust, to replace worry with confidence, cheerfulness and happiness. In business, too, courage and confidence are essential to success, and panic, the wholesale disturbance of commercial confidence, the keystone of business life, is fathered by* fear, mental, moral, physical, and commercial. Some unfortun9+c* ssouls have got into a chronic habit of believing themselves "constantly rushed.," It makes no difference where or ivhen you meet them, "they are simply rushed to death," "haven't time to think,", "so glad to see you, but haven't time to talk it over now," etc. This unnecessary and abnormal rushing through life is generally due to exaggerated ideas of one's importance, or, sometimes, it is due to an over-estimation of the importance of the work they are doing. Most of us need, indeed, to learn to take ourselves less, seriously, and even some ought.to learn to take their work less seriously. Fear and worry are incompatible with mental peace and physical health. Deliverance from the thraldom of fear is essential to the mental, moral, and physical emancipation of the human race.