Life Sayings

A lot of these life sayings really go to the heart of the human condition. Anxiety and worry is one of them.

If you spend your life worrying, you are misusing your mind.

You will probably start worrying about that now …

Your mind is a precious resource. You can use it to bring anything to your awareness.

You could, if you wanted, bring happiness and joy to your mind.

You could, if you wanted, bring love and truth to your mind.

You could, if you wanted, bring peace and serenity to your mind.

All of that is available. All of that is within your realm of experience.

But, no, you bring worry to your mind. You bring anxiety to your mind.

How it happens seems innocent enough. You will be feeling okay with yourself. Life will seem like it’s turning over well enough.

And it’s at that point that some part of you questions this. It says: “Yeah, sure, you feel fine, but what about those pangs you felt in your chest last night? And what about all that stuff you bought online? Just think, all of those sites have got your credit card details. Can you really trust that all of those sites are secure?”

And on and on it goes. As you become more and more trapped in the worst case scenario.

Heck, life can be so frightening at times that you don’t even want to get out of bed. You want to wrap that duvet around you and shut that nasty, horrible world out.

Until, that is, you remember that more people die in bed than anyplace else …

This is how absolutely insane us human beings are. That, somehow, we think that we can worry ourselves into happiness. That we can frighten ourselves into peace of mind.

Not only that, but we expend so much energy worrying about things that, in all probability, will never even happen.

And we make such a drama, such a fuss about people and events that we cannot even control.

That’s how creative and imaginative us human beings are.

That’s what sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom:

That we can conceive of things that don’t exist.

That we can invent all kinds of realities.

That we can look at the stars and we can invent machines that take us there. Or we can simply go there in our imagination and in our hearts …

And that’s the tragedy that lies at the heart of the human experience. That we conceive of things that we don’t want. That we invent realities that trap us and limit us and make our journey through life bleak and oppressive.

Delight in your wonderful mind. And use it to better effect. That is all.

Here are some more life sayings.

And here are some articles which look at anxiety and stress in society today:

• I Feel Like Everything I Do I Fail – Lately I’ve been feeling like everything I try to do I fail. I don’t know why this is… maybe it’s just stress. Maybe it’s the new year frazzles or the post-Christmas blahs. Though I didn’t really do much for Christmas so I don’t know …
• Failure to Transition | Life Learning Today – Failure to Transition Do you find it difficult to get ready and out of the house in the morning? Are you frequently late to appointments? Do you have.
• natural stress and anxiety relief – all of us experience stress and anxiety in our lives. we are all familiar with the sources of stress and anxiety. they include financial concerns, work deadlines, providing for our children, countless tasks to do and errands to run, …
• Do You Have Borderline Personality Disorder? | Anxiety and OCD Exposed – In the past several decades, we’ve watched the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) evolve from a virtually hopeless status with no clear answers.
• our feral youth: let’s exploit their stupidity, cowardice and rape … – news that britain has witnessed its second pedal-by shooting in as many months should give cause for alarm, hand-wringing and hyperbole. just not for the reason desperate politicians and newspaper editors with their eyes on the bottom …
• expanding your comfort zone like a champion: fear and anxiety cures – i remember my first day on the job. i was teaching website design at a local college, and i was so nervous i nearly fell over. my skin was cold and clammy. i stuttered as i spoke. memories of how, as a pre-pubescent boy, …

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