Worrying… Useless. Free your puppy...

Did you ever give attention to this word itself? For me this happened last Tuesday during the morning meditation on the beautiful hill where I live in Thailand. A kind of call to pay attention to it.

At home I started thinking about, well actually I was sitting behind my laptop and my fingers wandered away. Read the results below.

The word itself already gives understanding when you look deeply. Worrying is a verb. You always take the action to worry. The worries were not there before. You create them yourself in your head. And when you stand still and if you look back from the place in your life where you are now, you will experience that all the worries you ever had did not really offered something for you. They only took and consumed energy. Bringing you nothing and nowhere. They kept you in a kind of personal created prison.

Worrying is giving way to anxiety or unease. To allow your mind to dwell on difficulty or troubles.

There are different meanings of the word ‘worry’. For example; torture, harass, bother, obsess, tease, etc..

Worrying is working. You do the work to get care for upsetting yourself. In a strange way you inspire yourself in fear and anxiety. Torturing yourself.

And you go beyond worries on your head only. You're going to be concerned and thereby take the worries created by yourself on your shoulders and puts them in your head. You walk around with them, you walk away with them, robbing yourself of energy, get yourself out of creativity, balance and resilience and 'infect' with your fear and anxiety also your surroundings. You do not only torture yourself but also bother quite a few people around you.

At the Buddhist University again I got a great guide and in-sight during a lesson. The monk said to us: 

"You are always worrying. You forget to surrender to the adventurous child in you, part of your soul, your inner playful puppy. This one does not worry about the past or about the future. This child discovers the now in the now.

You get so excited about everything. Trying to arrange everything the best for you. Realize that you just temporary take a tiny little space on this planet among millions of other planets. Why are you so busy worrying or anxious? It's useless. Be more a puppy and accept what life brings. Apparently you already know you understand the art to fix things in your life, otherwise you would not be here. You worries did not really support you with that. Fear and anxiety are usually bad counselors. Leave your worries behind. Even better, stop making them.” 

How?

First of all, by getting the insight that worries do not solve any problem. They are only devouring energy. You can use your energy better. Then to allow the art of standing still and connect with inner silence more. Be sure all the necessary answers you need are already in yourself. You only have to listen and open up to connect with your source. You do not even have to ask. The answers will come at their own right time. Be aware that your life can not go wrong. Think less far ahead. You can be sure that you reach a destination tomorrow again. The future always is different than you can imagine now. It is a waste of effort and time to even think worrying will help you to create the future you want. Free your inner puppy. Use the example of a puppy. Explore, enjoy now, play and do what you are supposed to do here, called living and sharing your unique gifts with the world around. Give less attention to what (only you) think the world around you thinks of you. Live life – it’s coming to you and inviting you every day again - and perform in your natural way as it unfolds to you. Be sure you will succeed. No worries needed about that.

Frans Captijn
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