Worry

Worry is a useless emotion, yet it overtakes us with the power of an emotional tsunami, uprooting all attempts to be happy, to stay present with joy.

Sometimes it creeps into your day one thought at a time as your thoughts drift backwards into yesterday or ahead into tomorrow.

Other times it is a sudden unexpected emotional tornado spinning your emotional stability out of control.

Arthur Somers Roche describes it well “Worry is a thin stream of fear tricking through the mind.  If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained”.

We must pay attention to worry, we need understand our worry to be the destructive meanderings of our untrained mind.   

We need to notice our worry and release it, drawing our thoughts back into the present moment and deliberately seek out the joy that is present in our now.

Release worry -  image it as a balloon floating above you and with joy cut the string that is holding your worry and let it float away from you.

Yesterday has passed and there is nothing you can do bring it back or change any part of it, tomorrow is will never come for it will always be out of your sphere of influence.

Now is where you live and now is where you can find joy, if we train our minds to notice and then release worry in favour of joy in the now.

Grandma Snyder

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