Live More, Worry Less

Instead of allowing ourselves to be crippled with fear, we can instead choose to make the temporary nature of all lives a motivating force to be the best we can be in this life.

- Rena Greenberg

Do you know what is really toxic to your immune system and your overall health? Worry. That’s right! Even though a certain amount of fear is normal and may even have the positive benefit of motivating you to take right action, too much worry can actually have harmful effects on your health.

As just one clinical example, in 2010 The Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) reported a study of 249,846 persons over more than 11 years that concluded: “Anxiety seemed to be an independent risk factor for incident CHD [cardiac heart disease] and cardiac mortality. … The results show an association between anxiety and incident CHD with a 26% increase in risk. Anxiety was also specifically associated with cardiac mortality, with anxious persons having a 48% increased risk of cardiac death.” (See the full article at: http://www.onlinejacc.org/content/56/1/38.)

So how can you lower your anxiety level despite the coronavirus panic that’s filled our world the past few months? Here are five steps:

1. MAKE A CONSCIOUS DECISION TO REDUCE YOUR STRESS LEVEL.