How We Can Stop Creating More “Problems” for Ourselves

Use awareness to create no more problems, no more pain

Zen Michael
Change Your Mind Change Your Life
6 min readJan 9, 2021

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We often like to complain that our life is full of problems. We say that every time we solve a problem, several other problems immediately arise to complicate our life.

However, if we look closely at what we call “problems”, we will conclude that many of these problems do not just happen to us, they do not just have external causes. In fact, many of them ended up being expanded, enlarged by our habits of complexifying situations, by our accelerated thinking. This accelerated thinking also leads us to create, to invent, many other problems, problems that are created by the constant flux of thoughts in our mind.

If we can learn to identify the problems that we create without any need and without real adherence to reality then we will understand how we can avoid many situations with which we waste time and energy. We will learn how to stop creating more problems.

A good way to identify these types of problems that we have created for ourselves is the one mentioned by Eckhart Tolle in his book “The Power of Now”. In this…

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