Paramahamsa Nityananda

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Integrate and come out of the worry cycle by Paramahamsa Nityananda

The Economic Times – Thursday - 30 July 2009

 

Intelligence is the only way to get freedom from anything that bothers you. If

you are sweating about the small staff, then there is something wrong somewhere.

Be very clear that all miseries arise because of self-contradictions. You

yourself are not fully clear about what you want to do and so you are unable to

do it. For that clarity to happen, you need to nurture your own intelligence.

 

When intelligence surfaces, self-contradictions will disappear and you will

start becoming integrated. When you start becoming integrated, your intelligence

will further grow. This is the cycle you need to get into. This is the cycle

that can clear your worries also. Understand that you have given a lot of power

to your worries by simply talking about them more and more.

 

For example, when a housewife picks up the telephone, she will start by telling

her friend that the maid did not turn up for the day. That is her depression for

the day. If you are really depressed about the maid not coming and are really

interested in coming out of it, then you should simply drop it and finish doing

the work yourself! Doesn't this sound more logical?

 

If you are really interested in dropping your inner chatter and worries, you

cold try a small exercise. Think of all the things that give you joy. Make up

your mind that you will allow your mind to linger on only these things and

nothing else. Anything else, you will give just enough energy to get it done and

then forget about it. If you try this exercise, you will see that you conserve a

lot of energy. All your worries simply disappear and you will acquire a new

mental set-up altogether.

 

Do an honest check for yourself and find out if you are secretly nurturing your

worries. When you stop going behind your worries, you will be able to see how

others are helplessly caught up in that cycle. You will be able to see how they

magnify their worries by endlessly talking about them to people. This talking

about worry is what I call `worrying about the worry'! Only when you are able to

watch this, will the worry cycle break. Until you become the watcher, you are

caught up in the emotions, giving so much of power and control to them. Check

yourself to find out if you are starting to feel comfortable with your worries.

This is the scale to see if worries controlling you or you are controlling your

worries.

 

If you are feeling comfortable talking about them repeatedly without taking any

action, then worries are controlling you. If you don't linger on them and

address them correctly, then you are controlling them! Be Blissful!