What is worry?

One might worry about the happiness or well-being of oneself, or of another, or of one’s community, or of the world. One is worrying about the outcome of the future. All worry is to do with the future. One does not worry about the past or the present, but only about the uncertain future.

Worry is also tied to desire and hope. Essentially we are worrying about the fulfillments of our desires and hopes. This might just be selfish desires and hopes, but they might also be desires and hopes for the well-being of others or of the whole world. One might even worry about the whole planet and humanity, as to if this world will ever become free of unnecessary fighting and unnecessary suffering. And to some extent, this worry seems justified. Because the future of our world is uncertain, and things do not always get better, and problems can happen. This is also true of our own little lives and circumstances. And so people sometimes worry… worrying about the future and if this will be good or bad.

It does seem rational and even appropriate that we would have concern for all of this, and concern for the future in general. But concern is different from worry. Concern has a kind of reasonableness to it. But then it can turn into worry - which has a kind of manic emotion to it - and this is what will now be discussed. Worry is one of the emotions gone overboard, and often has lost control. Worry takes off on its own emotional trip, as it were.

So the first step in healing worry is to consciously begin to rein in the wild horses of this emotion, and this is done with intellectual reasoning. That is, the cure to worry has to do with the intellect and reasoning; until the worry is intellectually realized to be unnecessary, or overblown, or some cases without any real ground.

The other 2 cures of worry are:

Metaphysical scientific prayer

Faith in the prayers

What is irritation?

Things not going to plan. Things not going how one would like. Mistakes made.