How to Crowd Worry Out of Your Mind
Dale Carnegie realised that it is difficult to worry while you are busy doing something that requires planning and thinking. ‘I am so busy now that I have no time for worry’. The great scientist, Pasteur, spoke of ‘the peace that is found in libraries and laboratories.’ Why is peace found that? Because the men in libraries and laboratories are usually too absorbed in their tasks to worry about themselves. Research men rarely have nervous breakdowns. They haven’t time for such luxuries.
‘Occupational therapy’ is the term now used by psychiatry when work is prescribed as though it were a medicine. It is not new. The old Greek physicians were advocating it five hundred years before Christ was born! Any psychiatrist will tell you that work – keeping busy – is one of the best anesthetics ever know for sick nerves.
The remedy for worry is to get completely occupied doing something constructive. Your blood will start circulating and your mind will start ticking – and soon this whole positive upsurge of life in your body will drive worry from your mind. Get busy.
