THIS IS FOR ALL YOU WORRIERS OUT THERE!
Rev. Lady Diannia Baty © 2009
There are so many of you that are suffering, confused, scared and worried. The changes that are taking place in our world are a bit over the top. I am aware of that and I am not suggesting a Pollyanna approach to life. It is not my intent that you pick daisies while the mountain is spitting fire. I think it is more important in these times for everyone to come to know how their mindsets affect their lives. Most people are conditioned to worry and this leads to confusion, suffering and fear. I have been asked how I remain so calm and unruffled.
The answer is because I choose to.
Yesterday I received the news that a brother has been diagnosed with bone cancer in his arm. It is advanced. When I heard it I was not surprised as I do know that illness is a part of life and so is death. One of my other brothers has been out of work for months. A friend of mine is about to lose her home. The list goes on. If I were to worry about all of this I would be a basket case. There is just no point to worry. Worry takes away peace in a heart beat and shoves it into the darkest recesses of your mind.
Worry is something you start to share with everyone you meet when they ask how you are and even when they don’t. If you are miserable you spread it around like the flu and no one wants to catch the flu. There is an old saying about how misery loves company. This is what it means. Are you spreading a lot of misery around? I would rather you bring me a smile and a positive attitude. You can still share what is going on with you. Just do it in a different way. Give me hope not hardship.
Have you considered that when you start heaping all of your life woes on others and whine about what are you going to do about it that you are making them feel terrible too? Pretty soon they share with you all of their troubles and you both feel worse instead of better. Would you like a little cheese with that whine?
Thank you, the world just got a little gloomier because
you wanted to share your misery!
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. The winds of adversity blow on everyone’s head. We all get a hole in our boat so to speak and the best thing to do when that happens is to bail water. Looking at the rising water and worrying about it is not the ticket to dry feet or dry land.
Your thoughts have intense energy even when you aren’t articulating them. When you take a thought and wrap it in emotion you have increased the energy of it. When you put words on it, it becomes the most powerful of all. Sent out into the universal energy soup it becomes something that attracts right back to you what you are putting out. This is the law of attraction at work.
If you have been a worrier for a long time, it has become a habit and habits can be broken. Just become aware of your thoughts. If you identify your thoughts as worry then put a different twist on it. For every worried thought replace it with something you are blessed with. Be grateful for something instead. Just keep doing this every time you are worried about something. Do it consistently for twenty one days. Why twenty one days? Research shows that if something is done for approximately twenty one days it becomes a habit. The habit of gratitude will replace the habit of worry. As far as I am concerned a gratitude habit is a far better habit to have.
My mother was a master of worry. We used to say to each other not to worry about something because our mother would do the worrying for us.
By the way, most people in your life will stop sharing things with you because they don’t want you to worry about it. Have you noticed that even when some good news is shared with you that you will still find something to worry about? Is this really how you want people to perceive you? Ask people around you if they see you as a chronic worrier? If the answer is yes then make some changes. My point is that is is perfectly fine to share with another your burdens and your concerns but it is not okay to do this as a lifestyle. You know if you are a chronic worrier or not. Imagine that you start turning this around and then imagine that your days are peaceful and calm. Imagine that all your relationships are changing for the better. You will notice that people are gravitating toward you and not away from you.
God never meant for you to suffer this way. There are far better things to do with your thoughts and far more beautiful ways to empower yourself and others. Worry does no good! Taken to the extreme this negative emotion can make you very ill and possibly kill you. The chemicals your brain is releasing into the body from worry is debilitating and is feeding your cells some nasty stuff. Ever heard of cortisol? It is produced by stress. It causes a lot of serious health issues. If you are a chronic worrier you more than likely have chronic fatigue. I encourage you to goggle the word cortisol and find out for yourself what you are doing to your health and make some big changes.
If you think that worry is nothing to worry about, think again.
Worry also muffles Gods voice and presence in your consciousness. Maybe God is sending you the answers and the guidance you so desperately need but you don’t recognize it or hear it. You are too busy worrying. I imagine God got call waiting.
I implore you to take this seriously. The world and your family need you whole and peaceful. This is just something for you to think about. God wants you to soar and not wear the lead boots of worry.
Worry says in part that you do not trust that God is there for you. Worry sends the message that you refuse to give over your suffering and pain to your Source.
Now I ask you, if I were to tell you that there is a way you can put an end to being a chronic worrier easily and derive overwhelmingly good benefits from it, would you take it? I can feel you nodding your head "yes." The answer is SURRENDER! Get your Websters Dictionary out and look up that word too!
SURRENDER!
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