This article is one of mankind’s mistakes proposed by Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC-43BC) entitled “The Six Mistakes of Man”.
I believe that these ‘mistakes’ are as common today as they were over 2000 years ago and I am sure that you will notice parts of you that participate in these mistakes.
Mankind’s Mistake #2 is “The tendency to worry about things that cannot be changed or corrected”.
How often do you find yourself entertaining worry about something, person, event, time, situation or absolute fantasy?
Well, in fact worry is all fantasy.
The structure of worry is to create a situation in your mind out into the future and make it scary and bad and amplify it even more and then bring it into the now and experience it as thought you are right there in the future now – takes your breath away just to say it!
The act of worry sends vibrations of fear through your body. This can be useful if one is preparing for a difficult activity and one needs the necessary adrenaline rush to complete the contemplated task but all to commonly we do worry about the things that we can not influence or change or correct.
This is not only a fruitless mistake – it is dangerous to your health. It sets your heart into disturbed rhythms. Researchers at the Heartmath Institute, Boulder Colorado have collated powerful empirical data showing how calm, loving hearts connect with longevity. A heart focused on lack and fear brings about its own destruction.
A heart glowing with balanced love, gratitude and appreciation discovers the hidden caches of abundance that the worried heart will never find.
Be selective about your worry.
