Worry - 85% of the things people worry about never happen.

A study from the University of Cincinnati found that 85% of the things people worry about never happen.
Of the 15% that do, 79% of people said they handled the situation better than they thought, or it wasn’t as bad as they expected.

There is no word “D’agah,” or worry in the Torah

 The Torah, the five books of Moses, is the cornerstone of Judaism. It may be surprising, but in the Torah there is absolutely no mention, in any form, of the Hebrew word “D’agah,” or worry.

The Torah, the eternal lesson in life from the very Source of life, seems to be intent on teaching how damaging and how devastating it is to worry. And so, the Torah just ignores it!

And there are many instances and cases for people in the Torah to have legitimate causes of worry. 

Reb Zushe - I don’t have anything difficult in my life

 The story is told about a follower of the great Rabbi Dovber, the “Maggid” or the Rebbe, of the Ukrainian town of Mezritch. The saintly Rabbi (who passed away in 1772) was the second leader of the Chassidic movement. The follower who came for a visit was poor, lived a troubled life, and struggled with maintaining a positive demeanor and attitude, and constantly worried about his plight in the unrelenting poverty and other challenges of Eastern Europe.

The Rebbe, the great Maggid, directed the poor man to the Ukrainian village of Anipoly, home of a star student of his, Reb Zushe, to receive guidance and direction in the art of being satisfied with his lot.

The man duly arrived at Reb Zushe’s home, and it was not a pretty sight. The residence was not much more than a rundown hovel at the edge of the town. A few rickety chairs around a very old table were the only pieces of furniture in this shack. The walls were wobbly, and the roof leaked. It was hard to imagine people living there. Poverty screamed from every corner of this shanty. I personally visited this village recently, and running water is still absent there. Some of the homes in this village seem to match the one in our story…

After spending a day or two in the presence of Reb Zushe, the follower shared with his host that he had been sent at the Rebbe’s suggestion, to learn how to deal with difficult situations. “Oh,” said Reb Zushe, “it is such a great honor that the venerable Rebbe thought of me. I just don’t quite understand why the Rebbe would send you to me to learn how to deal with difficulty when I don’t have anything difficult in my life to deal with?”

"now that your future is assured, what about mine?"

 Cyril was 80 years old and was visiting his psychiatrist. "Doctor, I'm suffering from a lot of anxiety. What's going to happen to me? I'm very worried about my future." "Cyril," said the doctor, "don't worry, I can help you. All you need do is come and see me twice a week for the next 3 months. My charges will be $100 a visit and you'll need to pay in advance, of course." "Okay doctor," said Cyril, "now that your future is assured, what about mine?"

Worry

1. “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
   – Leo F. Buscaglia
2. “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.”
   – Swedish Proverb
3. “If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
   – E. Joseph Cossman
4. ”People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.”
   – George Bernard Shaw
5. “Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.”
   – Dale Carnegie
6. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
   – Elbert Hubbard
7. “If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.”
   – George F. Burns
8. “When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
   – Winston Churchill
9. “Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.”
   – Arthur Somers Roche
10. “If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you’ll die a lot of times.”
    – Dean Smith
11. “When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.”
    – Joseph Joubert
12. “That the birds of worry and care fly over your head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.”
    – Chinese Proverb
13. “Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.”
    – Cullen Hightower
14. “Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere”
    – Erma Bombeck
15. “There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.”
    – Harold Stephen
16. “People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching a cold.”
    – John Jay Chapman
17. “Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.”
    – Nelson DeMille
18. “The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
    – Robert Frost
19. “Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
    – Henry Ward Beecher
20. “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”
    – John Newton
21. “If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.”
    – Dale Carnegie
22. “I never worry about action, but only about inaction.”
    – Winston Churchill
23. “Rule number one is, don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it’s all small stuff.”
    – Robert Eliot
24. “A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.”
    – John Lubbock
25. “Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.”
    – Mary Hemingway

“Every evening I turn worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway,” said a wise man.

Worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles.

Worry pulls tomorrow's cloud over today's sunshine. Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

joke: sleep like a baby

hile the U.S. stock market was at an all time high, the ups and downs frightened a lot of small investors. A guy went to his financial adviser at the bank and ask if he were worried. 
       
      He replied that he slept like a baby. 
       
      He was amazed and asked, "Really? Even with all the fluctuations?" 
       
      He said, "Yes. I sleep for a couple of hours, then wake up and cry for a couple of hours."

The mouse who was afraid

There is a legend which says that there was a mouse who was very afraid of cats. She wished she could become a cat, her wish came true and she turned into a cat. Then she saw a dog and became afraid again and wished she were a dog. Her wish was granted and she turned into a dog. Then she saw a lion and she was terrified by his power and strength and wished she could become a lion so that she would not have to be terrified of the lion. Her wish was granted and she became a lion. Then she saw a man with a gun about to shoot her with his gun. You can imagine what happened next. She wished she could become a human and she did. But when she was sitting in her house she saw a mouse and she was scared of the mouse. The little mouse frightened her.

Death was walking toward a city

Death was walking toward a city one morning and a man asked, “What are you going to do?”

“I’m going to take 100 people,” Death replied.

“That’s horrible!” the man said.

“That’s the way it is,” Death said. “That’s what I do.”

The man hurried to warn everyone he could about Death’s plan.

As evening fell, he met Death again. “You told me you were going to take 100 people,” the man said. “Why did 1,000 die?”

“I kept my word,” Death responded. “I only took 100 people. Worry took the others.”

This interesting tale portrays so well what the US National Mental Health Committee reported a few years ago - half of all the people in America’s hospital beds are constant worriers. Mental distress can lead to migraine headaches, arthritis, heart trouble, cystitis, colitis, backaches, ulcers, depression, digestive disorders and yes, even death. the mental fatigue of nights without sleep and days without peace, then we get a glimpse of the havoc worry plays in destroying the quality and quantity of life.

Worry is, and always will be, a fatal disease of the heart, for its beginning signals the end of faith.

Release the regrets of yesterday, refuse the fears of tomorrow and receive instead, the peace of today.

FREE YOUR MIND, YOU WILL BE GLAD YOU DID.

The physicist

A physicist is giving a lecture at a Jewish seniors residence and explaining
that in 4 and 1/2 billion years the sun will exhaust itself of fuel and burn
out and all life at we know it in the solar system will end.
Upset, Saul Epstein yells out, "Is there anything we can do professor? Can
we form any congressional committees, or donate money for research?"
The physicist responds, "Sir, why are you so upset? This won't happen for 4
and a half billion years?"
"Oh, thank God," says Mr. Epstein. "I thought you said it would happen in 4
and a half million years."

Is ANYTHING alright?

you know the question of the waitress at every table in a Jewish restaurant: Is ANYTHING alright?

"Begin worrying. Details to follow."

You know the classic Jewish telegram: "Begin worrying. Details to follow."

HOW TO STAY SAFE IN THE WORLD TODAY:

HOW TO STAY SAFE IN THE WORLD TODAY: Avoid riding in automobiles because they are responsible for 20 % of all fatal accidents. Do not stay at home because 17 percent of all accidents occur in the home. (that's 37 % already) Avoid walking on streets or sidewalks because 14 percent of all accidents occur to pedestrians.(now that's 51%) Avoid traveling by air, trains or buses, 16 percent of accidents involve these forms of transportation. (that's 67%) Of the remaining 33 percent, 32 percent of all deaths occur in hospitals. Above all else avoid hospitals. You will be pleased to learn that only 0.01 % of all deaths occur in a synagogue, and these are usually related to previous physical disorders. Therefore, logic tells us that the safest place for you to be at any given point in time is in Synagogue. Torah Study is even safer. The number of deaths during Torah Study is too small to register. For safety's sake, go to Shul as often as possible, and attend Torah Study. It could save your life! Author Unknown PS: You don't have to be Jewish to go to shul. You may not understand what the old guys are saying but sometimes they serve wine in paper cups.

stress management

A lecturer when explaining stress management to an audience,Raised a glass of water and asked'How heavy is this glass of water?'
Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.
The lect urer replied, 'The absolute weight doesn't matter.It depends on how long you try to hold it.If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem..If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my rightarm.If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.'
He continued,'And that's the way it is with stress management.If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later,As the burden becomes increasingly heavy,We won't be able to carry on. '
'As with the glass of water,You have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again..When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden.''So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow.
Whatever burdens you're carrying now,Let them down for a moment if you can.'So, my friend, Put down anything that may be a burden to you right now. Don't pick it up again until after you've rested a while.
Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:
* Accept that some days you're the pigeon,And some days you're the statue.
* Always keep your words soft and sweet,Just in case you have to eat them.
* Always wear stuff that will make you look goodIf you die in the middle of it.
* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be"Recalled" by their maker.
* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again,It was probably worth it.
* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to be kind to others.
* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time,Because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
* Nobody cares if you can't dance well.Just get up and dance.
* Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
* The second mouse gets the cheese.
* When everything's coming your way,You're in the wrong lane.
* Birthdays are good for you.The more you have, the longer you live.
* You may be only one person in the world,But you may also be the world to one person.
* Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
* We could learn a lot from crayons... Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.
*A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.
Have an awesome day and know that someone has thought about you today...I did ...
"Health is not everything, but without health, everything is nothing.

There is a story of a mother who calls her Rabbi late one night in a panic. ‘Rabbi, what should I do when my son has trouble making friends or has difficulty with tests, how will he adjust to college?!’ ‘Don’t worry my dear friend.’ the rabbi replies when suddenly he hears the sounds of a crying child in the background. ‘How old is your son?’ the Rabbi asks.

‘He is two years old,’ comes the mothers reply.