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Excerpt From: | Living Enlightenment |
Chapter 1: | You Are Your Emotions |
Section 2: | There is nothing to worry – Living enlightenment is enjoying life without worry. |
Part 5: | Worry and dilemma – our inner software |
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One man got up from deep sleep with a jolt. His friend asked him, ‘What happened?’
He replied, ‘I suddenly remembered that I forgot to take my sleeping pills.’
Worry is a deeply embedded pattern in us. It happens independently, without any solid, valid reason to justify it. It is an addiction like smoking and drinking. I read about some recent research conducted at the American College of Chest Physicians. It said that the proportion of people classified as highly nicotine dependent has increased by thirty two percent in the last eighteen years!
Any addiction happens because we want to maintain our patterns. The same is true with worry. You worry to maintain patterns. It becomes your nature.