What Is Worry
Worry is the mental counterpart of anxiety, although worry often includes angry thoughts and images. That is to say, we worry about things we fear may happen. For the Type A/Hostile Personality, worry most definitely includes angry thoughts and images, since in this personality type, anxiety is usually immediately converted into anger.Worry And Imagery
What is Imagery ?Imagery is the making of mental pictures, it is visual thinking. Whenever we're having an internal dialogue, we're usually making up images of whatever it is we're talking about. So, if you are talking to yourself about a meeting you are going to host, you are making pictures in your head of the meeting room, the participants, the actions and reactions of the participants, yourself, your actions, your reactions.
If you are worried about the meeting, the pictures are going to be distressing ones, since worry will be about unpleasant and undesirable happenings.
Worry And Self Talk
Remember, self talk is simply an internal dialogue, conversations we have with ourselves. Usually, when we worry, we have conversations with ourselves about distressing things we anticipate happening. The keyword here is "anticipate."The worry is about something that hasn't happened and may or may not happen. Worry is always about something imaginary. Something that doesn't yet exist. Worry, in fact, is the process of becoming distressed about the nonexistent. Put in that perspective, it seems rather silly and useless.
