Worry Is the Killer

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WORRY- THE SILENT KILLER It may surprise many people that a thing like worry can be a killer. It has been proved by all medical researches that worry is a major cause of heart ailments, raised blood pressure, rheumatism, ulcers, skin–problems, asthma and many other diseases. Worry is a slow poison. Now the trend to “cure the mind before curing the body” is gaining momentum all over the world. Hence the modern maxim: “a healthy body depends upon a healthy mind”. There are several causes of worry. The fast paced and complicated life style contributes largely to our anxieties. Shortages, fears, competitions, dissatisfaction, disillusionments, fears, failures - everything adds to the burden on our minds. Some of these factors may be uncontrollable, but others are within our control. Right from the time a child is three years old and is pushed into a nursery, a rat– race begins which lasts throughout one’s life. Expectations of parents and competition with peer groups to achieve better results chase the child. This leads to headaches which abound in children. Irritability, tension, fear of failure, ridicule, self hatred are some of the hitherto experienced emotions that besiege the younger children of today. There is a steady erosion of the carefree, untiring and happy state of childhood. If this trend continues, the day is not far when more children will suffer from ailments like high blood pressure, depression and stomach ulcers. Two major causes of worry that can be easily controlled by of most us are tomorrow and yesterday. So much involvement had gone into worrying about yesterday and tomorrow that the feeling of today has almost vanished. The fear of tomorrow looms large over people. They fret about their savings, securities and their future, forgetting the importance of today. Of what use is tomorrow if we do not live to see it? Only a

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