How to Stop Worrying
Fear and worry are future based, so when you catch your awareness creating a situation that has not happened, gently bring it back to the present and affirm to yourself, I am all right right now.
Dandapani tells a story his guru told about being seven years old in 1934, driving home through heavy snow at Lake Tahoe and worrying he would miss his favourite radio program. Watching his awareness travel into the future and come back to worry about something it had invented, he found a simple correction that Dandapani passes on as a practice.
What this talk covers
- As a boy in a snowstorm, his guru worried the whole drive that the car would get stuck and he would miss his favourite radio program.
- He saw his awareness go into the future, create a situation that had not happened, then come back to the present and worry about it.
- He asked himself, are we stuck in the snow? No. Are we still moving? Yes.
- From that he realized fear and worry are future based.
- When you notice your awareness going into the future to build something to worry about, gently and lovingly bring it back to the present and affirm, I am all right right now.
Fear and worry is future-based.Dandapani
Questions
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Notice when your awareness has gone into the future and created a situation that has not happened, bring it gently back to the present, and affirm to yourself that you are all right right now.
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Because fear and worry are future based. Your awareness travels forward, invents a situation, then returns to the present and worries about the thing it invented.
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Dandapani's guru affirmed, in the eternity of the moment, I am all right right now, after checking the facts of his actual situation.
Transcript
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Do you worry a lot? Let me share with you a story that my guru once told. When he was seven years old, in 1934, up in Lake Tahoe, his family was coming back in a car
and it was snowing really heavily. He was worried the entire time that his car would get stuck in the snow and he would miss his favorite radio program.
He said, what if we get stuck? What if we can't get out of the snowstorm? I would miss my favorite radio program. In that moment, he saw his awareness
going into the future, creating a situation in his mind that has not happened, then his awareness coming back to the present and worrying about the situation that he created in his mind. Then he said to himself, are we stuck in the snow?
He would answer no. Are we still moving? Yes. And he realized that fear and worry is future based.
And he realized also, right at that moment, that in the eternity of the moment, I am all right right now and that's what he affirmed to himself. Fear and worry is future-based. Every time you see your awareness going into the future and creating a situation that hasn't happened, that you're about to worry about, gently and lovingly bring your awareness back to the present
and affirm to yourself, I am all right right now.