Worrying comes naturally to me. I can worry about my responsibilities, guilt, family
and friends, my own or others’ safety, health, finances, challenges and
threats, problems, failures, enemies, pressures and the list rolls on… Some part of me is convinced that if I worry
about something, it will assure a happy ending.
After all most of what I worry about almost never happens. I realize this is a control fallacy and yet at
times remain irrationally reassured that my worrying has a magical power to
affect change. Usually the only changes
I experience are sleepless nights, stomach problems, headaches and tense
muscles, impatience and irritation, inability to stay in the present moment, increased anxiety and continual
low-grade fear.
Today, I choose to still the rumbling worry within me. I will speak words of reassurance and comfort
to myself and take time to breathe deeply and remember that in this moment
there is no danger or threat. I choose
to focus on the abundance that surrounds me with gratitude. I will patiently and gently redirect myself
as worry invades my consciousness and embrace this day and all it holds
moment by moment.
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