The-Conquest-of-Happiness-by-Bertrand-Russell

you will find that your worry disappears
altogether, and is replaced by a kind of
exhilaration.
This is part of a more general technique for the
avoidance of fear. Worry is a form of fear, and all
forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has
learnt not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily
life enormously diminished. Now fear, in its most
harmful form, arises where there is some danger
which we are unwilling to face. At odd moments
horrible thoughts dart into our minds; what they are
depends upon the person, but almost everybody
had some kind of lurking fear. With one man it is
cancer, with another financial ruin, with a third the
discovery of some disgraceful secret, a fourth is
tormented by jealous suspicions, a fifth is haunted
at night by the thought that perhaps the tales of hellfire
told him when he was young may be true.
Probably all these people employ the wrong
technique for dealing with their fear; whenever it
comes into their mind, they try to think of
something else; they distract their thoughts with