{"id":7096,"date":"2023-09-01T21:31:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=7096"},"modified":"2023-09-01T21:31:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T14:31:31","slug":"how-to-stop-worrying-11-effective-ways-according-to-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=7096","title":{"rendered":"How To Stop Worrying: 11 Effective Ways, According To Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindbodygreen-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_0,y_247,w_1787,h_1003\/c_fill,w_700,h_400,g_auto,q_85,fl_lossy,f_jpg\/org\/69er9sysbk1mf59rr.png\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Worry, as a noun, is defined in the Oxford dictionary as, &#8220;A state of anxiety and uncertainty over actual or potential problems.&#8221; As a verb, it&#8217;s defined as, &#8220;To give way to anxiety or\u00a0unease; allowing one&#8217;s mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And we can think about worrying as a sort of maladaptive coping mechanism, at least when it&#8217;s left unchecked. As clinical psychologist <a href=\"https:\/\/drkaitlin.com\/\">Kaitlin Harkess Ph.D.<\/a> tells mindbodygreen, &#8220;worrying&#8221; does have some practical roots. After all, how would accomplish anything if we didn&#8217;t have a <em>little<\/em> stress or concern pointing us in the direction of what we want?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a species, we would not be where we are today without problem solving\u2014the ability to look to the past, which some might call rumination, or look forward, which some might call worry,&#8221; Harkess explains, adding, &#8220;These are things that actually allowed us to learn from things that have happened to us and anticipate what could happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In this way, the right amount of worry can help us with problem solving and planning ahead. But when we move out of problem-solving and into catastrophizing, spiraling, and dwelling on problems, that&#8217;s when worrying becomes unhelpful. And while it happens to the best of us, the old adage that &#8220;worrying doesn&#8217;t solve today&#8217;s problems, it just takes away today&#8217;s peace,&#8221; couldn&#8217;t be more true.<\/p>\n<p>And there are a number of reasons you might be prone to worrying or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/ways-to-stop-overthinking\">overthinking<\/a>, whether you&#8217;re experiencing heightened emotions, you observed your parents worrying a lot as you grew up, or you&#8217;re dealing with mental health concerns like depression, anxiety, or PTSD.<\/p>\n<p>The key is being able to bring yourself out of the worrying headspace, and back into problem solving mode. &#8220;When we move out of the zone where we can actually do anything to support ourselves, that&#8217;s often when we would label the cognitive experience as a worry,&#8221; Harkess notes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1675549\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worry, as a noun, is defined in the Oxford dictionary as, &#8220;A state of anxiety and uncertainty over actual or potential problems.&#8221; As a verb, it&#8217;s defined as, &#8220;To give way to anxiety or\u00a0unease; allowing one&#8217;s mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles.&#8221; And we can think about worrying as a sort of maladaptive coping &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[60,135,58],"class_list":["post-7096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-anxiety","tag-empowerment","tag-stress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}