Be a Warrior not a Worrier

Do you consider yourself a Worrier or a Warrior? Do you fight anxiety or does it consume your every breath and lead you to worry about every little thing? Worry appears to be the old school for stress. It has one thing in common whether we worry or stress over something it affects our mental health exponentially.

Wikipedia says " Worry refers to the thoughts, images, emotions and actions of a negative nature in a repetitive, uncontrollable manner that results from a proactive cognitive risk analysis made to avoid or solve anticipated potential threats and their potential consequences.

For me worry has a best friend she is called over thinking and hand in hand they can create the most unrealistic scenarios of negative toxic thoughts. These thoughts if not kept in check can spiral out of control until we are left overwhelmed by a belief of what is or has happened unrealistically. We find that we have created a vision or a scene that has not yet happened and most likely never will happen yet we are now at crisis level because we believe this is the truth. We have single handedly created something to worry about through our fear of the unknown.

FEAR - False Evidence Appearing Real

All of this would have been averted had we become warriors and faced the fear head on. In Fact the chances are that the worry that we initially began with was most likely quite a small issue, however our overthinking grew this tiny little

snowflake into an enormous snowball and by adding more negative thought and building scenarios we gave that snowball momentum, now even the tiniest piece of information false or otherwise is adding to that snowball and now we can't control it, we can't escape it and we can't confront it because our imagination has created this monster that we are in fear of.

How do we prevent this thought process from gaining momentum?

We must become a warrior. Our focus must be on a positive outcome. To look for resolution when challenges face us rather than burying them deeper, so deep that negative thoughts take over and force us to worry.

1 Timothy 1:7 says " For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and love and a sound mind."

Just as the worrier accepts doubt and allows doubts to corrupt our thoughts we must become strong like the warrior, we must physically stop thinking . Re group our mind, believe in our own abilities and steer our thinking to a path of self belief and the pursuit of facing the challenge, dissecting the problem and freeing ourselves from the issue not creating an imaginary war within our own minds.

We must stop worrying. We must pursue what we believe in. We must fight for our own belief, for our truth and for our dreams. If at first we don't succeed , get back up as Warriors, we are not here to face just one battle, life is a continual conflict, we must arm ourselves with the necessary tools. The question is not " why is my life so difficult?" It should be " How do I find the skills to deal with the challenges I am faced with." Be brave, be courageous, be a Warrior.

THE GREATEST GLORY IN LIVING LIES NOT IN NEVER FAILING, BUT IN RISING EVERY TIME WE FAIL. - Nelson Mandella