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Let it go!
It is quite enticing to believe that if you worry over a situation long enough; that if you put all your time and energy into a certain problem, you will resolve it. Unfortunately, the opposite is true.
Thinking non-stop about a problem gives you a false sense of illusion that you're fixing the problem. But you're not. What you're really doing is making the problem worse and deepening your anxieties.
Remember, that thinking and worrying about something that may or may not happen (most of the time it doesn't) in the future, creates a great deal of anxiety. Fear is usually based on imminent danger, anxiety on future ideation. But good news ... the thing the you fear in the future, can only happen in the present--a present that will allow you to handle whatever it is just fine because you will have the tools you need (in the present). You can't fix anything in the future, nor the past, for that matter.
So, chill. Center your energies on the present. If you start to feel anxious, ask yourself, "What is happening right now? What is the problem right now?"
You will notice that you don't have a problem "now." And whatever it is that is happening at the time, you won't be worrying about it because you'll be handling right then and there.
So, let go of things for a while and see what happens. You might just feel better and more relaxed.
Well Street
Feel better and more relaxed—who couldn't use more of those?
Ruminating on an issue in hopes of finding a positive solution mirrors the false belief that if we beat ourselves up enough, we'll be inspired to take positive actions.
Sanatana
Well put! You are absolutely right!