Words from the Master

What do I mean by not worrying about the worry? Just see the worries and don’t get perturbed by them. It is only when you get caught in repeating your worries to yourself in a worried fashion, does the actual worry take root. This is what I mean when I say ‘stop worrying about your worries’. Just let them be. Don’t start giving them life. Don’t feed them with flesh and blood.

When you say, Control the mind, Don’t think negatively – it is just like tightening the knot in the rope. Your mind becomes more tense and constricted. This will not help in anyway in untying the knot.

When you suppress, the memories of these suppressions go directly to your Manipuraka chakra. When the Manipuraka is poisoned, your actions will have an unconscious violence – like plucking at something, destroying things, misbehaving with your body, fighting with yourself and with others.

These are all subtle expressions of suppression. That is why, people say that their stomach is burning with anger or they are feeling heavy in the stomach. There is so much of suppressed anger in you; so much of negativity in you, which in turn gives rise to more and more negativity.

What is negativity?
Supposing you suffer from a business failure due to some reasons, how will you react? You will feel sad that you met with failure; that is ok. But you will not stop at that. You will feel frustrated and angry and you will allow all sorts of things to enter into your head.
Oh, this is my bad period!
Everything I touch is sure to be a failure!
I am good for nothing!
Why am I always so unlucky?
What am I going to do? … and so on!

This is what is negativity; this is what is the root of worry. The thing about our worry is, 99% of our worries are never true. 99% of our worries are totally unreasonable.

Gradually, this negative attitude, this negative chatter solidifies in your Being permanently, and becomes a sort of negative influence in everything that you do. And you are so unconscious of this solidified thing in you; this is the greatest danger. To make you acutely aware of this current in your system itself is a big task because it has become your very nature. You cannot see it as something different from you. You have become a part of it.

The clinical name for this negative attitude is Depression. Some people are less depressed, some people are more depressed, that’s all. The more you allow this chatter to consume you, the more depressed you become. The people who are less depressed feel it only at times and that too at a lower degree whereas the people who are more depressed feel it most of the time in a severe fashion. But the current is always there for both.

So depression or negativity is nothing but a collection of negative thoughts, which you speak to yourself. And once you allow such thoughts to enter into your mind, the same thoughts will keep playing back every time you suffer a small failure. It will keep reinforcing this attitude. After all, worrying is only a highly reinforced habit.

But it is a mere habit and so you can kick it like any other habit! But you don’t think that it is only a habit; you think that it is a solid and serious reality. That is the problem. That is why you are not able to kick it.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.