We all get overwhelmed with worry sometimes. Big or small, there are nagging and spoil our everyday life.
Like everyone, it affects me too. So over the years, I have endeavoured to train my mind to put those worries aside by reminding myself that:
- If the ‘problem’ is really just an inconvenience, dismiss it.
- If the ‘problem’ is an imaginary-possible-future one issued from a ‘what if’ thought, dismiss it. You may plan ahead to avoid problems, but you can’t control the future.
- In 5 years, most of these current worries will be of no importance and forgotten/dismissed as a thing of the past.
- Everything is temporary and everything is relative.
- If you can act on it, simply organise yourself and deal with it, then move on; if you can’t act on it, then chill, wait and see how things evolve. More often than not, a solution comes up naturally or the stress-free mind will find an original approach to handle it.
- Going for a long walk and breathing always makes it less daunting.
Here is a summary of this thinking process:
Thank you for reading!
Take care, Virginie
