How to Handle Fear and AnxietyWritten by Garland Van Dyke
What About Fear? Fear can be one of worst experiences for mankind. Prolonged fear can lead to chronic health conditions and chronic health conditions can ultimately lead to a shortened life. Fear can be real or imagined. When a bear crosses your path you feel objective (real) fear. Thinking there may be a bear waiting for you when you open your door is an imagined fear (usually). Anxiety deals with a fearful feeling of some anticipated misfortune. It is difficult for some to say what they are anxious about. Anxiety is often unknown or ill-defined. Either way, anxiety is a very strong, negative emotion. What if I am unable to Function Due to Fear? This is an easy answer but may be difficult to carry out by some: get medical attention immediately. Can I Really Control Fear and Anxiety? Yes. Try these steps to lessen or overcome your fear and anxiety: 1. Pray from Depths of your Heart - Pray each time you experience fear, worry or anxiety. Find closest, private place and pour your heart out to God. If you have committed your life to Him and are living in ways He finds acceptable, He will listen to your needs. Never forget it, never doubt it; believe it with all your heart. 2. Trust God - One of hardest things in visiting with God is that He doesn’t verbally respond to us. How to trust Him? Look at care, love, compassion, and forgiveness that Jesus gave to thousands. That is a picture of God caring for His people. Look in Bible to learn how to trust God. The three fellows to be thrown in a fiery furnace trusted God explicitly and they were saved from death.
| | PERSISTENCEWritten by Glen Hopkins
One of keys to being successful in anything you do is persistence. Once you have determined exactly what it is you want to accomplish, you must take massive action on a consistent, persistent basis in order to succeed. Think of it like building a muscle. If you have never weight trained before, first time you walk into a gym, chances are you will not be able to bench press 250 lbs. However, if you are persistent, and you consistently go back to gym, you will find yourself getting stronger and closer to your goal with each and every visit. One of things you’ll notice on your journey towards your goal, are roadblocks. That is, you will encounter obstacles that seem to jump out of nowhere in an attempt to halt your progress. Count on these obstacles. They are a part of life. Everyone would have every success they ever wanted if there were no obstacles. Your job is to be persistent and work through those obstacles. If you find little or no obstacles along way, chances are you are not really challenging yourself. And when you do reach your goal, you won’t experience feeling of ‘sweet success’. Make your goal a challenging one! If you take time to study any successful person, you will learn that vast majority of them have had more ‘failures’ than they have had ‘successes’. This is because successful people are persistent; more they stumble and fall, more they get right back up and get going again. On other hand, people that don’t get back up and try again,
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