Stop worrying. Easy to say, but not so easy to do. But why do we worry? What logical reason do we have for thinking of outcomes that we don’t want to see happen, or that frighten us?
Worrying is a type of survival mechanism hardwired into our brains thousands of years ago to help us deal with a dangerous environment. It is a way of remembering where danger lurks and learning to stay away from it. But in the modern world, where the threat of getting attacked by a wild animal is not a reality for most of us, our worrying has morphed into something less productive.
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