"The noted writer, Thomas Carlyle, once built a soundproof room in his home in London. He did it so he could do his work without interference from outside noises. His neighbor had a rooster that crowed and the crowing bothered Carlyle. Carlyle protested to the neighbor, but the neighbor answered that his rooster crowed only three times a day...and surely that was not a great annoyance. "But," Carlyle said to him, "If you only knew what I suffer just waiting for that rooster to crow!!" (Dr. Jim Moore, "How To Worry Creatively", February 5, 1989, p. 4).

That tells the story. Many of us spend our lives waiting for the rooster to crow, waiting for the hammer to drop, waiting for the next shoe to fall. We wait and worry, certain that something bad is going to happen. We deplete our energy need…