5 ways to deal with guilt and worry

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2012

Updatedtrends.com: The two emotions of guilt and worry are not necessarily damaging. Guilt can encourage a person to make changes while worry can help a person not to make mistakes. But in this stressful life of ours, its all to easy for these 2 emotions to have an extremely negative impact on our life and in some cases, even cause havoc in our relationships. If you are stressed out and feel there is just no way out, here are a few ways to deal with your feelings of guilt and worry.

1. Know your worries – Try to calculate what exactly are you worried about. Many times the person might not even know about his/her worries. After discovering the cause of the problem, try working on a solution and make attempts to bring positive changes instead of negative ones.

2. Concentration & Meditation– Everyday, make sure that you spare time for concentration or meditation. This helps to relax the mind and also helps to make the person to keep their mind at ease and forget about those sensitive feelings of guilt or worry. Following this tip also helps in reducing the intensity of worries.

3. Spend time alone – Many times we see that emotions lead to uncontrollable situations and this might even cause embarrassments to you. So to avoid this, make sure that you tell everyone to leave you alone so that you can calm yourself while everyone is also less worried.

4. Keep yourself busy – This is the best remedy to deal with worries and guilt. Bring positive changes in yourself. Work always helps in a way to divert the attention of the mind in to other things. Get yourself involved in charitable organizations so that you can use your time in helping those who really need some assistance, instead of getting weighed down with worries.

5. Pray – Not many people are aware of the power of prayer. Speaking out your troubles to God and believing that you will have the strength to overcome them is a great way to deal with your worries in the right manner.