“Stories of the future can be very fearful. And to live right here, right now, is always where you are supported.”
Byron Katie (http://www.thework.com/index.asp)
Many people have difficulty relaxing because of money, relationship and/or career worries.
But consider: There is literally nothing to worry about. If you’re worried, it’s because you regret something you did in the past or you’re concerned about what might happen in the future. Both are, as a Buddhist might say, no thing. Nothing. They don’t exist. As the (Buddhist?) singer Conway Twitty reminds us, “It’s only make believe.”
The difference between children and adults is that children know when they’re playing “make believe.” Many adults don’t.
It’s the stories you tell yourself about the future that worry you, not the future itself. The future can’t worry you. It hasn’t happened yet…except in your imagination. You create your experience through your imagination, but imagine that the experience is creating you.
Consider the possibility that the quality of your life is determined by what you say, to others or to yourself. For example:
Do you talk about your complaints or exciting possibilities?
Do you talk about what’s wrong or what’s right?
Do you talk about what you lack or what you are grateful for?
Do you talk about regrets and fears or pleasures and delights?
Every time you talk about the items before the “or” in the sentences above, you are creating that very life for yourself. Change what you talk about (to yourself and others) and you will change your life.
It is, literally, that simple. People have known this secret well before the book “The Secret” was written. The first verse of The Bible contains the phrase, “In the beginning was The Word” (what you say) and the 14th verse reminds us that, “the word became flesh” (what you say creates what you have).
In 2009, this has come down to us as, “Be careful what you wish for, you may get it” to which I would amend, “Be careful what you say, you will experience it. “
So relax. There is, literally, no thing to worry about…unless you say otherwise.
