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can try to release those ideas quickly when they arise we can free our mind from suffering. It’s not that we don’t care about the source of the problem but when we free ourselves we can see with clarity rather than coming at it from a place of fear or even panic.</p><ul><li>If you are prone to debilitating yourself with worry, next time an opportunity presents itself, try to refocus the energy. By being mindful of this process and watching the mind at work, rather than spinning into more negative thoughts, you can begin to change the balance of power within your mind and rationalise to see whether a solution can be found and, if so, how. If it can, there is no need to worry. If it can’t, worrying is not going to help solve the problem, it is just going to bring about stress and suffering in the mind and result in negative problems in the body. This is a practice we can all work on which will help bring about increased peace of mind and well-being.</li></ul><p id="f6b8">May this teaching lead you to happiness; may it help you grow in truth. May you be freed from the suffering of birth and death.</p><figure id="071a"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/0*lyVtWt1GnRH3r_-8.png"><figcaption></figcaption></figure><p id="cb39">You may also like these Dhamma articles :</p><div id="c983" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/living-with-uncertainty-1ef3f2514762"> <div> <div> <h2>Living With Uncertainty.</h2> <div><h3>#WednesdayWisdom</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*8pC3okTc6ho9X5MucjtqKw.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="341c" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/how-to-actualise-bodhicitta-awakening-mind-every-day-60172a0e1dbc"> <div> <div> <h2>How To Actualise Bodhicitta (Awakening Mind) Every Day.</h2> <div><h3>and why we should want to put o

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Worrying.

does it help us to solve our problems?…..

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“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 many years and which we unwittingly perpetuate.

If we can try to release those ideas quickly when they arise we can free our mind from suffering. It’s not that we don’t care about the source of the problem but when we free ourselves we can see with clarity rather than coming at it from a place of fear or even panic.

  • If you are prone to debilitating yourself with worry, next time an opportunity presents itself, try to refocus the energy. By being mindful of this process and watching the mind at work, rather than spinning into more negative thoughts, you can begin to change the balance of power within your mind and rationalise to see whether a solution can be found and, if so, how. If it can, there is no need to worry. If it can’t, worrying is not going to help solve the problem, it is just going to bring about stress and suffering in the mind and result in negative problems in the body. This is a practice we can all work on which will help bring about increased peace of mind and well-being.

May this teaching lead you to happiness; may it help you grow in truth. May you be freed from the suffering of birth and death.

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