Worry is an unpleasant, upsetting activity that we'd like to stop but we can't; sometimes we can hardly think of anything else and can't sleep.
Worry is not a simple reaction, it is complex, including conditioned emotional reflexes possibly learned even in childhood, ingrained habits of responding, and cognitive processes that exaggerate the dangers ahead, set impossible or unrealistic standards, and reflect low self-confidence.
One could also reduce worrying by changing one's thoughts, such as correcting unwarranted negative expectations, reducing tendencies to falsely view current situations negatively ("awfulizing"), giving up overly demanding perfectionistic standards ("I must always be right") and by correcting the refusal to accept the lawfulness of all behavior ("It's got to be different").
Worry is blind, and cannot discern the future; but Jesus sees the end from the beginning.
The children of God are to cease worrying, cease looking at themselves; they are to take an earnest interest in others, and seek to lead the feet of the straying in the narrow path cast up for the ransomed of the Lord to walk in.
They will realize that they are to become agencies through which God will convey the truth to other minds, and that they are never to be left alone in their efforts; for heavenly angels will work with them, and impress the hearts of those who hear.
