Worried Wednesday

Thank you Google for providing us with a well written definition of Worry: give way to anxiety or unease; allow one's mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles. Ummm....Hello! I don't know if anyone else reads this and see's the words "allow one's mind to dwell"...I did not invite the worries to dwell anywhere, particularly in my mind. They state it as if it were that simply, right!??!?! Worries are sneaky little creatures that take over your mind before you have time to recognize and take action which usually leads to your mind being consumed before you begin stressing about those worries. If putting up an eviction notice to those worries in our minds were that simple we would all have done it yesterday and be living worry and stress free. SO, because it is not that easy and our automatic thoughts creep on in without invitation, how do we disinvite those worries to the party in our minds. I am sure there are a million and one ways to do this but the one I find most effective is the voice within my head that I refer to as my voice of reason. I coach this voice to reason with my irrational fears and worries that I have no control over. Why spend my day worried about something I can't do anything about?!?!? When I state it like that, it makes a world of sense. However, when I let those worries ruminate...its hard to see that they are irrational and that worrying is pointless. To worry is like waiting for rain in a drought useless and disappointing. So I have trained my voice of reason to remind me over and over to stop waiting for it to rain and begin disproving those worries or simply start focusing on what I do have control over and let go of what I don't, I et a lot more done that way.