Stop Worrying and Start Living

An all time favorite teacher of mine is Norman Vincent Peale.

Allow these timeless words of this wise man of God encourage you, from an excerpt of his booklet "Stop Worrying and Start Living."

"Your physical mechanism is sensitive to whatever goes on in your mind. And since worry is located in your mind, it can have a devastating affect on all parts of your body. This is how it works.

A worry thought first cuts a thin trickle or rivulet across the consciousness. Repeated, it deepens into a channel of fear or anxiety. Presently almost every thought comes up tinctured with worry or fear. As a result, you become a person of fear,  a confirmed worrier.  You have, by this process, created a mental climate in which worry thrives and grows and finally takes over, dominating your whole life experience.

To arrest this tragic process, the first step it to revamp your worry-conditioned mental climate by gradually substituting a spiritual climate. That can be done by inserting into  consciousness a fresh new system of thinking. To correct an unhealthy physical condition, the doctor often prescribes medication in the form of a pill which dissolves in the blood stream. It fights the infection present in the body, finally destroying it so that vigorous well-being prevails.  In similar manner we may prescribe spiritual medication in the form of a healing thought.

The physician's prescription uses the symbol Rx, "Take thou." So we suggest, "Take thou" the great Word of God into your mind. Let it dissolve deeply into your conscious control center where your life pattern is formed. It will, if tenaciously held there, drive from your thoughts the infections which have for so long fed the disease of worry. This spiritual "medicine" will definitely result in the attainment of healthy-mindedness through freedom from worry." (unquote)


Be IN Courage!

Linda Michelle