PROBLEM:
You’ve been worrying about __________ (fill in the blank).
SOLUTION:
Don’t waste your energy on useless emotions.
Worrying is one of many in a long list of emotions. It doesn’t accomplish anything. We can worry about everything from the
weather, to how well we do on a test, to what we find out by going to the
dentist. Does it change anything? No.
So why worry?
Anger is another useless emotion. You can get mad. But does it solve your problem. Usually anger just triggers a knee-jerk
reaction auto-response and causes MORE problems. And it gets you upset even more. So why do this to yourself?
Jealousy can also be added to the list. It is a negative emotion which is
non-productive – it does not solve anything, it just aggravates.
We as humans go through a variety of emotions every
day. We hardly ever take the time to
recognize the fact that worry, anger and jealousy simply bring us down. When we allow ourselves to be consumed by
these emotions and others which are not good for us, we can cause illness,
disease and toxic relationships with those we engage with by carrying these
emotions around.
If we take the time to think about what we feel and address
it, nipping it while it is happening before we allow it to get away from us –
we can prevent a lot of these negative feeling from surfacing into our daily
interactions.
Giving yourself the 10 second rule of pausing to think
before you speak and reflecting on what you say before you say it is a good
start.
But change requires much more than just that.
Change requires a conscious effort and shift in how you show up in life. You also need to think about what you are
saying from two perspectives: How does
it reflect on you vs. How does it make the
other person feel. Most people operate
from a one-dimensional place. Rarely do they think about what they ask or what
they state in how it affects others – they usually only operate from a selfish
place of how what they say or ask serves their own agenda.
If we stay in conscious-mode of being sensitive to our
environment, we have the ability to make changes in our daily interactions
which are much more productive and healthy.
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