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December 30, 2016

Good With Me – Worrying Will NOT Affect The Outcome

Worry and projecting — you can’t have one without the other.

Projecting means you think ahead to all of the possible consequences of being late — all of which were negative in the first example — even though none of them has yet occurred and might not ever occur. Haven’t most of us been taught to ‘think ahead’? Haven’t most of us been taught to project into the future, to look ahead, to be prepared for anything — usually anything bad?

Of course, it is okay to have a plan in case it’s needed, but with or without a plan ready, there is no value in thinking negative thoughts that lead to feeling worried about the outcome of some future anticipated event. Worry won’t affect the outcome. It will turn out the way it turns out. This is not to say that there is nothing you can do to affect an outcome, but only to say that whatever planning or preparation you might do, worry is not going to help. Worry paralyzes. Worriers become immobilized and are less likely to take the action that could fix the issue.

Something else happens when you worry. The subconscious mind has no concept of time in the form of the past, present, and future. It only recognizes the present. For that reason it cannot make a distinction between a thought about something that occurred in the past, something that is happening in the present, or something that might happen in the future. That’s why it reacts to every thought — whether about the past, present, or future — as if it is happening right now.

Recall things you have worried about in the past that never happened. Compare what you worried about in the past to what actually happened. Did you expend a lot of energy being worried for nothing?

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