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No Worry
By Cornelia Powell | March 13, 2009
On this second “Friday the 13th” of the year — there are three in 2009, the most possible in one year — I’m reminded how much “worrying” is going on these days! Then that lead me to remember a greeting card received years ago that I posted above my desk in easy eye view. It said: “Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles. It empties today of its strength.”
Whew! I relaxed just writing those words.
I can always tell when I don’t give myself some quiet, meditative time each day. My mind is noiser, I get hooked by busy thoughts more easily, my body is more tense. And that “worrisome” feeling creeps in. As Conversations With God author Neale Donald Walsch said: “All the problems you face today are going to go away, unless you worry them to stay. Problems like worry. Worry is a magnet for them. ‘Let it be.’ If you worry enough about them, however, you can be sure that they will stick around.”
Now you know why all of those triskaidekaphobia folks — people who are afraid of the number 13 — are triskaidekaphobics. They worry about stuff so it sticks around. They attract 13-related problems ’cause they worry about 13-related problems. As my friend and teacher Cynthia Zaal says: “Where your attention goes, so goes your life!”
So I’m going to ease off and take some deeeeeeeeeep breaths as I gently stretch my body, have a cup of herbal tea, watch the mountain rain fall, count the birds at my feeders, put my attention on other things I love and listen to the Beatles remind me, Let It Be.
Topics: Empowering Girls, Inspiration, Meditation, Stillness & Relaxation, Women's Notes |