Worry is like your carryon bag - it's full of all those things you don't want to be too far away from for long.
idea that you’re alone in your pain and humiliation. You open to the possibility that your experiences are universal so you can be more empathetic to others and more loving to yourself.
“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow,
it only saps today of its joy.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
“Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.” ~ Dale Carnegie
Worry is all about the future. Like regret brings past pain into your present moment, worry pulls in future pain. When you abandon the right now by jumping into an imaginary psychological future you disempower yourself and worry takes hold because you feel vulnerable and power- less.
SO HOW TO DO YOU SHRUG OFF YOUR BACKPACK FULL OF WORRIES?
• Face Your Worry Worry is a facet of fear – fear that
things won’t work out the way you want, fear that you will experience some sort of pain or fear that you will lose out some- how. So to face your worry is to notice when you spin out into your future mind. In that future space doing takes prece- dence over being because you feel you can control more through your actions. You believe you can make good things happen and keep bad things at bay. As Eckhart Tolle, author of the best-selling books The Power of Now and A New Earth, says, “Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more impor- tant than the present moment.”
• Understand Your Worry Worry’s job is to bring you back to the present moment. It is like those new alarms that cars have that beep when you begin drifting off the road. It is signaling you that you have drifted away from the now and have created stress out of thin air. The fu- ture doesn’t actually exist – we live in a perpetual now, so when we continually disassociate from our now by focusing on how things should be we drain our energy, joy and ability to grow.
• Fix Your Worry You fix your worry by coming home
to your present. Whenever your worry alarms go off stop and ask yourself, “Am I OK right here, right now?” Most of the time the answer will be a resounding YES! Be- cause in your now you’re fully in your power. You feel able to make choices, get support and to focus on what’s going well in your life.
You can also fix worry by accepting the fact that life is a complex path of hills and valleys. If we didn’t have the contrast of positive and negative or sweet and sour our lives would be flat and drab. So this month take a vacation without
your inner baggage by changing your perspective instead of your location. Focus on leaving one of these bags behind for the month and see how much lighter you feel. Or maybe rotate each week which one you leave behind and see what changes for you. The most important thing is to open up room for more fun this June. Create space for joy to come by and visit for a while. And remember, there’s no extra points for doing it all by yourself. Reach out and get support because you really only have four choices: getting it done easily, getting it done, doing it the hard way or not doing it at all. This month my wish for you is that you feel constantly on vacation and all things come to you with ease.
Desire a results-oriented holistic solution? Do you yearn to: Create more balance in your life; Stop feeling so exhausted; Un- cover your life’s passion; Attain clarity about what’s next for you; Revive your relationships; Craft a deeper spiritual con- nection; Access a place of health & hap- piness? Donna can guide you from here to there, call for your free 15-minute consultation and discover a different ap- proach. 336-540-0088. Please visit www.
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