Here’s an exercise .
Imagine for a moment your
life without worry. Just for a moment, look at everything that you have,
everything you are doing, your plans for the next few days, weeks, month, but
look at it without the element of worry in it. Don’t worry about money or
security or whatever you worry about. Just look at your life at this moment
with only the worrying removed.
How does it look? Oh, and by
the way, don’t worry about not worrying, you can reintroduce worrying back into
your picture in a moment. But for right now, just a few minutes, think about
your life as if there was nothing to worry about.
How does it look? How do you feel?
When I do this, I realize how
good I have been at creating a very nice life for myself. I get to meditate a
lot during the day; we have a nice apartment in a cool neighborhood, in a very cool city. We go for a long
walk everyday with the dogs down to the waterfront, sometimes stopping to have a
drink overlooking the marina. We eat out a lot because Kim is blogging about Vegan
food in Portland. We have plans for traveling to visit family in the next month
and more.
Now comes the amazing part. I have been able to manifest all of this very cool life… all the while worrying about it
at the same time.
Now I wonder what would happen
if I didn’t waste so much time worrying and spent more time creating. How much
more productive could I be without worry taking up so much of my time?
Worrying doesn’t seem to be particularly destructive or dangerous; it just
takes up so much valuable creative time. How much more wonderful stuff would be
happening in my life if I didn’t waste ANY time worrying?
