Worry
is like a virus. It will arise. You can’t stop it from arising in you. But you avoid
being led by it!
Yesterday, while
copying some files from someone else’s computer via a pendrive, both my
pendrive and laptop got infected. Luckily the person who I was with is a geek.
And he noticed the infection in a nano-second. But it took him quite a while to
fix both his own machine and mine. He told me that the only way to deal with
viruses is to be “extra vigilant”. “Don’t trust any source,” he said, adding,
“Just install a gateway check before you allow any data into your system – via
email, internet or offline transfers.”
What the gentleman suggests as a possible method to
keep out computer viruses, applies to our lives as well. Most of us are,
subconsciously, constantly, worrying. We are led by our worrying. From
relationships to our children to our finances to health to careers to the state
of our countries and world, we worry about anything and everything. Now there’s
no logic or pre-qualification required for worrying. The human mind thinks
60,000 thoughts a day. And if unchecked, if untrained, the mind simply keeps
spewing worrisome thoughts among several other debilitating ones like anger,
grief, guilt, fear and such. So a worry is like a wave in the ocean. If there
is an ocean, waves will arise. If there is a mind, a worry will arise. But you
have to realize that you have the ability to prevent that worry from affecting
you. You may be touched by the worry, but you can choose to be unaffected.
Being able to do this consistently is what intelligent living is all about.
One way to be untouched by a worry is to simply
postpone it. Most of us do just the opposite. We miss the beauty and magic of
living in the moment by postponing living, by postponing happiness. We indulge
in worrying almost 24x7. Instead try postponing worrying for a change. Let’s
say, you have to pay a bill and you don’t have money. A worry arises
dramatizing the consequences of being unable to pay that bill. Just postpone
the worrying and instead focus on what you can do, within your means, with your
abilities, to earn the money to pay the bill. Simple. And if you can’t pay the
bill, on the D-date, well, face the reality then. How could worrying have ever
helped you pay off the bill? Think about it!
The other way to deal with worry is to practise ignoring
it. When it arises, just ignore it. Your ability to ignore worry will be honed
when you consistently remind your mind that worrying is of no use. Truly, no
situation in your Life, or even in the world for that matter, can be solved by worrying.
Only concerted, focused action leads us to solutions. So why worry? When worry
arrives, ignore it.
So, install a worry-check gateway in your mind.
Keep the worry virus out. Postpone worrying to start with. And you will
instantly, magically, start enjoying the moment. This
ability to enjoy what is, is happiness!
No comments:
Post a Comment