Positive Reflections - Releasing Stress And Worry

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Releasing Stress And Worry

 

There is a subtle difference between concern and worry. Concern is

reasoned and purposeful, based on a logic of cause and effect. We

might shut all the windows before we leave the house, concerned that

someone might break in, or that the wind might blow in and knock over

a vase of flowers. Through concern we avoid discomfort, and hence

feel more relaxed.

 

Worry, on the other hand, lacks the logicality of concern. Instead it

tends to concentrate on pointlesss wishing that we could change the

past, or on dwelling on unavoidable aspects of the future. Moreover

the mind becomes infected with free floating anxieties, which

accumulate and become habitual and which soon we begin to regard as

normal. Specific problems may resolve themselves, but its anxious

effects remain in our minds.

 

Before we can fully relax, we must silence this unnecessary anxious

hum or noise of our lives, and tune in to the pure silence where our

personal quest for contentment may be fulfilled