Don’t Worry.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XXIII, 7 December 1901, Page 1103

Don’t Worry.

—- ——- •J • The usual way people set about stopping- worry is a wrong one. That is why it is so unsueeessful. If a doctor tells a patient he must stop worrying, the patient is likely to say, impatiently: "Oh, doctor, don't 1 wish that 1 could! But 1 can't. If 1 could have stopped worrying a year ago 1 would not be ill now!” —all of which is probably perfectly true. And the doctor does not always know how to help him, because both doctor and patient have an idea that it is possible to repress worry through an effort of the will. This is a mistake. You have got to replace it with something else. Let me illustrate this. Suppose you were to go into a completely dark room, wishing it to be light, how would you set about the work? Would you try to scoop the darkness up in buckets, and carry it out at the door? Not at all. You would just open tlie windows and shutters, and let in the blessed sunlight. You would replace the darkness with light. So it is with worry. The onlypossible way- to get rid of it is to replace the worry attitude of mind with the non-worry attitude. And this can always be done when tlie person is sincere and patient in his desire to bring it about. All he has to do is to be passive, and let nature have her own way.

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