I'd like you to try and experiment.
Invite a few friends to dinner.
Then, feed into the conversation as many worries as you can think of.
Tell your guests how worried you are about the country.
That there are a lot of communists and that they gonna take over.
Tell them that there is certainly gonna
Be a war and that we'll never recover from.
Assert that the juvenile problem is all going to the dogs.
Then tell them of all the cases of
Illness and adversity you know about.
You can imagine what this kind of conversation will do to your guests.
You will have infected all of them with your worries just as
Surely as if you had a bad cold and spread virus all around the room.
Now, continue the experiment by deliberately
Infecting your friends with faith, hope and optimism.
Observe how their moods go up and down depending
Upon whether you affect them with faith or with worry.
Of course you'll have more trouble with some and with other for some
People have strong faith and it will be
Hard to shake them with worries and negativisms.
That is another evidence that when one fills his
Heart and mind with faith worry doesn't easily take root.
An important question to ask yourself is this.
Am I an important factor in the world or am I spreading mental
Spiritual ill health by my constant
Worry talk to my friends and family.
Don't be a spreader of fear decease of mind and soul.
Don't be a worry infection center.
How then can one be a healthy factor in life:
First, determine to always say
Something constructive in every situation.
Second, keep a score card of the number of
The worry remarks you make during the day.
You'll be amazed by the number.
Each one and itself may not be very important but they quickly add up
And their sum total can have a very
Bad effect to some people and to yourself.
For the backlash of worry thinking is terrific.
On your score card, mark everytime you think a worry thought.
But do not utter it.
As you get to the spirit of this
Game of reducing your worry statements.
You'll be surprised on how your popularity increases.
You'll have become a constructive
Force and people like constructive friends.
See how many of the little negatives
You can drop out of your conversation.
Then go under the big negatives.
Undercut worry at it source,
Go around building people up by optimistic statements.
Incidentally, this will build you up to.
Always try to leave a person feeling better than when you met him.
Infect the minds of men with faith hope optimism
And love and they will love you very much indeed.