How TO WORRY SUCCESSFULLY

How TO WORRY SUCCESSFULLY—David Seabury
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Worry is a dissociation and deflection of attention, a confusion of mental focus by anxious concern for incidentals and neglect of the essential element." It is also "deliberation turned toxic." Most Oriental languages have no word for such a typically modern state of mind. Although "forethought is essential to intelligent living, it is only when apprehension is ruled by nervous anxiety . . . that worry injures us." Brooding, it follows, is "meditation made sick by fear." Confronted by situations that we do not know how to face, or do not want to face, our concepts of the kind of action possible for us are limited by patterns of thought formed in childhood by fears of consequence or opinion, by a morbid love for our own unhappiness, by distorted evaluations of the situation based on ingrown prejudice rather than fact. We thereupon begin to worry and "the moment a man begins to worry he imperils his mind." The symptoms are plain. "There is no isolation so poignant as that which worry brings. At such a time life slips from our grasp, average contacts no longer assure us, people become strangers, to whom we talk across an unseen gulf. Smiles that .'Drought comfort somehow mock us, as if the world had become a pantomime and our intimates the weriest shadows. The day's routine stretches like a solitary waste; there is fatigue in our souls." There are three stages: the first, or stimulating phase, when there is a fair chance of facing the facts; the second, or inhibiting period, marked by self-indulgence, wandering attention, faulty observation; the third, or paralyzing stage, when bodily disorders set in, ranging from stomach ulcers, hyperacidity, twitchings, tremors, stammering, to pyloric spasms, constipation, diarrhea, insomnia.

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts ~ David Seabury.

The Author: Dr. David Seabury's real name was Dresser until he legally changed it to his mother's maiden name. Born in Boston, he published How to Worry Successfully on his 51st birthday. Previously he wrote four volumes of the same type (Unmasking Our Minds, Growing into Life, What Makes Us Seem So Queer, Keep Your Wits). Educated at Boston's Chauncy Hall School, in Florence, London, Paris, Munich, Rome and Harvard, Dr. Seabury began practice as a psychologist in Manhattan at the age of 29, became consulting psychologist for New York City in 1921. Married, and lived in Ossining, N. Y., he was the founder of the Centralist School of Psychology.
Time Monday, Sept. 14, 1936
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Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others. ~ David Seabury

The Dresser parents were Julius Alphonso Dresser (February 12, 1838-May 10, 1893) and Annetta Gertrude Seabury Dresser (May 7, 1843-December 5, 1935) ardent students of Phineas Parkhurst Quimby. The 1st Family of New Thought?
Children of JULIUS DRESSER and ANNETTA SEABURY were:
ANNE SOPHIA DRESSER (1859 - 1859)
HORATIO WILLIS DRESSER (1866 – 1954)
Marriage 1898 Alice Mae Reed (1870 – 1963)
Children
Dorothea Dresser (1901 - 2000) Married Charles H. Reeves(1898–1988) in 1925 in Maine

Malcolm Dresser (1905 - 1985 ) Married Patricia Schlenker Seabury(1911–1997) in 1930
RALPH HOWARD DRESSER (1872 – 1873)
JEAN PAUL DRESSER (1877 – 1935; ashes spread in the Sierra Nevada Mnts) Minister
Marriage 1906 Faith Leah Storer (1880 - ?)
Children
Leonore Dresser (1913 – 1963)
PHILIP DAVID SEABURY [DRESSER] (Sep 11 1885 – 1960) Psychologist & Author
1Marriage ? Hildegarde unknown(1864 - ?)

2Marriage 1923 Florence Woolston Guy (1866 - ?)Florence Woolston Guy, editor of Woman Voter, was an ardent suffragist who supported labor and settlement-house projects. Author of “The Delicatessen Husband and Other Essays(1926)”, “Men Who Understand Women(1924)”, “"Marriage Customs and Taboo Among the Early Heterodites" and others.

3Marriage ? Evelyn Uhler(1868 - ?)
PARKHURST QUIMBY DRESSER (Sep 11 1885) Still born Sep 11