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No Worries: Two Instant Strategies Anyone Can Use to Get Rid of Worry A skeptical, hard-nosed New York banker saw a church advertising their next sermon, “You Can Get Rid of Worry.” He sneered at the announcement but decided to attend because he was looking for the answer to his anxiety and worry. His past actions, negative thoughts and resulting personality had drained him of happiness. They were also threatening his business achievements and position. His anxious, tense and nervous ways were compromising his performance. The minister suggested to the congregation a private “worry cleansing.” He instructed each person, in the privacy of their own home, to write their worries, old and new, on slips of paper. Then, study each slip to determine how real these worries were. It was surprising to all what a high percentage, over 90%, of what they worried about had never come to be. They were instructed to look at statistical averages of how likely current worries were to happen. As the banker was looking at his slips of paper, in a sweep of his hand, he pushed into the garbage the worries he deemed worthless wastes of his time saying, “Thank you, God, for your amazing power to help and change even a person like me. I feel different and better. And I know it.” Achieving No Worries Then he took the remaining slips of paper back to the minister the next week. With the minister at his side, the banker studied the few slips on which real concerns were written. The banker confided, “God and I together can take care of these matters.” As the banker spoke, the minister pulled a card from his pocket and read it to the banker. It said, “God, help me to remember that all which may happen to me today can be handled and resolved by You and I together.” A spiritual exercise and conversation had the power to remove worry from this man’s life. When the banker found his connection to a Higher Power who was able to provide him solutions for all problems, the banker had no worries. Add Up Your Blessings and Subtract Your Worries Psychologically and spiritually this is a sound exercise. Write out your blessings and count them. Your worries will begin to fade away as their power disappears. After a speaking event to a large group, I was signing autographs and answering questions. A man waited around until others were gone out of earshot. He approached me desperately saying, “Excuse me, Lori Prokop, may I speak with you? Everything in my life is going badly and I am worrying myself sick.” He continued, “It’s all over. Everything is washed up. Nothing left but a terrible mess that can’t be fixed.” I compassionately replied, “I am so sorry to hear your wife has run off with someone else.” To which he retorted, “My wife has not run off. She loves me and would stick through thick or thin with me.” “Great, get out a paper and pen,” I said. “Let’s write that on a list of what you have going for you, your Blessing List. We’ll make a list of what you have lost and what you have left. So first, let’s write what you have left.” Then I continued, “I am so sorry to hear your children are murderous drug dealers who are hurting others.” Annoyed, he defended, “Lori Prokop, my children are wonderful. They have both said they support me no matter what. They love me dearly.” “Wonderful,” I said. “Let’s include that on your Blessing List of what you have going for you, children who love you.” Then I continued, “I’m real sorry to hear your house was leveled by a tornado and your insurance expired because you didn’t have enough money to get by. He replied, “We don’t get tornados here. Lori Prokop, where are you coming up with this stuff? My house is fine. My insurance is paid. Even though times are really tough, we find enough money to get by.” “Great,” I said. “Let’s write no tornados, house fine, insurance paid and enough money to get by.” By this time, the Blessing List was becoming visually apparent. He said, “I can see I’ve been wrong. I have more going for me than I realized. And much of it is the most important things like the love of my family. I’ve never really considered those assets, but I guess they are.” We finished the Blessing List. His worries and fears lost their power to the point he felt it was not even necessary to write them down. We gave a prayer of thanks and gratitude for what he did have. He kept in touch letting me know his turn from negative thinking to positive created victory over worry. He stopped worrying and started living.
About Lori Prokop Lori Prokop produces and presents leading-edge workshops on how to heal from abuse and create what you want in your life. While presenting workshops nationwide, Lori Prokop has created more than 300 books, CDs and DVDs. How to Heal Abuse is based on experiences witnessed by Lori Prokop of how abuse is created and can continue through generations and how the cycle of abuse can be broken and healed. Many abusers deny they are abusive and many people are hurt by behaviors they don’t know are abuse. A prolific researcher and skilled trainer, Lori Prokop’s How to Heal Abuse is consistent with cognitive psychology of the mind and leading neuroscience research on the effects of emotions and environment on the brain. Lori Prokop offers systems that answer people’s questions about the meaning of their lives and helps resolve the struggle between good and evil. How to Heal Abuse is astonishingly simple and usable by people of all ages and backgrounds and requires nothing more than a few minutes and an open mind. The first step for healing is to clearly identify, without judgment, shame, blame or guilt, what abuse really is. Identifying and defining abuse has become simple and clear by using Lori Prokop’s 12 Rules of Abuse TM which are easy to understand and remember. In her workshops and training, Lori Prokop heard from people that they wanted a guaranteed system to heal their lives and find their own right answers to their tough questions. The first people exposed to Lori Prokop’s system reported the experience had transformed their lives. Soon Lori Prokop began receiving invitations to teach the process publicly. Over the course of more than 15 years, Lori Prokop has developed, perfected and called this the Better Life System TM. It is now taught in How to Heal Abuse workshops nationwide. Free Report Including Lori Prokop’s 12 Rules of Abuse TM and the Life Guidance SystemTM
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