I have found the Emmet Fox procedure of quarantining works for everything:
- Hurt feelings
- Grumbling anxieties
- Alarming preoccupations
- Superannuated glooms
- Acute plights
- Fetid gripes
One could carry on the list ad infinitum.
My AA programme take on the formula:
Do a simple inventory (mistakes, selfish, self-seeking, dishonest, afraid, blame, faults, and wrongs), which takes a few minutes and identifies where I'm creating my own problem.
Share it with someone.
Give the whole topic to God.
Do not think about the topic.
Then, the next morning, ask for corrective attitudes and actions.
Then implement and quarantine the topic again.
Zero by mouth, zero by thought, no long face, no poring over it, nada, zip, zilch, zippy da lippy.
And each day, reread the corrective attitudes and actions and see if God has improved them.
Within a day or two things will improve.
Even the largest structural life problems start to undergo major transformation within two weeks.
Rarely will anything take more than six weeks.
There is nothing God cannot do, and there is nothing He cannot do quickly.
All that requires is my surrender and compliance with the system.