Worries

As humans, our brains are much more advanced than other mammals'. The human mind has infinite potential. There are still large parts of the human brain we don't use - imagine what we would be capable of if we used our minds to its full potential.

The human mind with its infinite potential has its negative sides as well that affect most of us.Our minds like to wonder and oftentimes it's not easy to recognize that the reality we're living in is not real, but created by our minds.

Most people don't live in the now. Because it's very easy to stay stuck in the past or worry about the future, creating "what if" scenarios that quickly become our reality.

When we are not in the best financial situation and live month to month, losing our home or anything equally horrible can become something that is on our mind a lot - and if something is on our mind a lot, it will become our reality, something that is no longer an event that has a very slight chance of happening in the future, but something real. Even though it is not happening right now and it will probably never happen, we still feel as horrible as we would feel if it was happening right now.

Anxiety is based on this feeling. We fear that something will happen to us - health problems, financial problems, relationship problems, basically anything - that has no reality in the present moment. We fear something, because it has not happened yet. Fear is always of something in the future.

Anxiety and fear is what we feel when we believe that the problems we think about are actually real in this moment.

We all do this. Some people more, some people less, but we all do it, it's part of modern human behavior. It is very important to recognize when we are worrying about the future. When we feel like we can't see clearly, most likely we are not living our real reality. So ask yourself if what you're worried about is real right now. No? Well then, why are you living like it's your reality? When you recognize this, a burden so huge will be lifted off you that you will feel like you're able to fly.

When recognizing that you have been living in the fake reality of your worries, you should also ask yourself what your reality really is, because living like this makes us forget what our reality is. It makes us blind to our real world and when we realize how we've been seeing the world, we will see how blinded we were. So just go over what you really have in your life, you can even write it down to help it stick in your mind. You are healthy, have a loving family, partner or friend, have a nice home, have food on the table etc.

When you do this all the troubles of the world will be lifted off you and you will feel how easy life really is. We create most of our problems in our minds, we never really have them. And we create all of our suffering in our minds. Always remember that suffering is optional and when you feel overwhelmed with worries and anxiety, sit down and discover your real reality. See the world how it really is. There is so much beauty around each of us and life can be so easy, our minds simply insist on making it complicated.

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it. Be aware of the thoughts you are thinking. Separate them from the situation, which is always neutral. It is as it is.” - Eckhart Tolle

"If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

"It is always the false that makes you suffer. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Contributed  by
Sh Girish ji