Worrying.
does it help us to solve our problems?…..
“One of the approaches that I personally find useful is to cultivate the thought: If the situation or problem is such that it can be remedied, then there is no need to worry about it. In other words, if there is a solution or a way out of the difficulty, you do not need to be overwhelmed by it. The appropriate action is to seek its solution. Then it is clearly more sensible to spend your energy focussing on the solution rather than worrying about the problem. Alternatively, if there is no solution, no possibility of resolution, then there is also no point in being worried about it, because you cannot do anything about it anyway. In that case, the sooner you accept this fact, the easier it will be for you.” — His Holiness The Dalai Lama, December 31, 2010
Extract taken from an article originally published in the Hindustan Times, India, on January 3rd, 2011. See the full text here: https://www.dalailama.com/messages/compassion-and-human-values/countering-stress-and-depression
We can spend a lot of time and energy on worrying about things which ‘might happen’ or which are often beyond our control. We tend to draw on past negative and unpleasant experiences which prime us to over-react and influences our perceptions and feelings to create ideas in the present. This process happens very quickly and is a habit which we have formed over…
