Eradication of Worries

What is Worry?

Worry is a mental disease based on wrong calculations. A worried person may

succumb to depression so that he is even driven to the extent of committing suicide. We have to realize the destructive power of this emotion called worry and take steps to totally eradicate it from our lives.

Worries should be completely eradicated as it slowly kills a person. It is a slow poison. When we have lots of expectations & desires in life & if they are not fulfilled, first it turns out as disappointment & when we keep on thinking about the same thoughts, it gets stagnated & turns into a physical disease & mental worry. There will be an imbalance in the energy level because of the thoughts. The chewing of the same thoughts which affects a person , will avoid the flow of 

fresh energies & the body becomes too weak to be active even to do the daily routines. We won’t feel hungry & slowly the body becomes diseased.

There are many kinds of problems that we come across than can cause worry.

Problems that can be endured:

 There are some problems that must be endured. We cannot postpone them, ignore them or solve them. Example. If a child in a family has been born defective and remains handicapped even after all possible medical treatments. It has to be accepted worrying cannot be of any help.One has to strengthen and calm the mind and endure the problem.

Problems that could be ignored:

For example nagging from elderly people. Just ignore them.

Problems to be kept in abeyance , knowing the fact that they will be solved by the society or by the law of nature in due course:

Under this category comes most of the problems. These problems cannot be solved by an individual effort but by nature & community when the time comes. Example :Son is unemployed he may be trying his best, but in a country like ours where there is excess population. Everyone cannot be absorbed by the economy immediately only the society and the government can solve this problem.

Problems that could be solved immediately:

 There are certain problems for which immediate action is necessary 

Example ; a tumor should be checked for malignancy. If surgery is advised if should be carried out without delay.

If one can keep the mind calm always , then any problem could be solved effectively before it turns out into a worry. If the mind is well balanced you can understand the circumstances,accept the situation &then face the reality without hurting your body & the mind. So, for everything, whether it be desires, anger or worries, the best solution is meditation &introspection.

I would like to conclude this chapter explaining about how I eradicated my worry of being fat.Actually my spiritual journey started before this problem taking shape into a worry. I had an expectation that I might get fit and slim because of my interest in spirituality & practicing the sadhanas regularly. The more I went deep in spirituality, I felt that to be fat is not at all a big issue to be worried. I knew that the purpose of life is not to be fit and health fanatic alone but to put an end to ones karma & get back to the original place from where the conscious started its

 journey.

If I had taken this as a life long worry, then I wouldn’t have progressed in spirituality & I would be physically & mentally diseased. I totally understood this & I accepted my situation & I faced it rather happily and had the firm belief that continued practice of sadhanas will eventually make me and any person fit and healthy.

I enjoy myself with my cooking, reading spiritual books, watching programmes in TV spending time surfing the net , visiting friends & relatives & I never feel bored. All the while I keep watching myself so that my harmony within me is not at all disturbed. If I get disturbed I at once introspect & get rid of any unwanted thoughts.

PRACTICAL EXERCISE TO ERADICATE WORRIES

 Allot half an hour for this exercise. Take a piece of paper and pen and sit in a calm place. The

problems are listed and categorised by writing ( more faculties of mind involved) and then the

problem are analysed for solution.

List all your worries.

Classify them into the following four categories:

(a)Problems to be endured: e.g. incurable disease, death, loss of wealth, etc.

(b)Problems to be faced with patience: e.g. unemployment, etc.

(c)Problems to be ignored: e.g. negative speech and actions of others, unnecessary comments from others, etc.

(d)Problems to be acted upon immediately: e.g. emergency health situations.

Work Sheet : Eradication of Worries

1.Problems to be endured 

2.Problems that will be solved over time by nature or society 

3.Problems to be ignored 

4.Problems to be solved immediately

then10 steps of thoughts process in Mind

 They are:

1.feeling,

2.need,

3.zeal or effort,

4.action,

5.result,

6.enjoyment,

7.experience,

8.research,

9.realization & 

10.Conclusion.

Any thought, that arises first is due to some kind of a feeling physically or mentally. Once the feeling forms, for e.g. If it is a physical feeling, it might be hunger, thirst, pain that is due to an imbalance in the body energy , the need for satisfying it comes to balance the energy level. Then we take an effort to fulfill it which automatically will lead to do an action& we know the result after the action is performed as enjoyment, which becomes an experience. So when we think back it is a research & through it we know the solution for the feeling & that is the

conclusion we make.

So, now through experience we know that when we are hungry we have to get something to eat, which should be something healthy, pleasant & tasty, instead of something only tasty.What we do is, eat just to fill up the stomach. Again if we have a strong desire to get things like buying a car or building a house. we first think in terms of need & then make effort as to what one should do & then we put in action to fulfill it. If we have fulfilled it without getting loans, the result will be enjoyment. Instead if we buy loan then the result will not be enjoyment until the loan is over. This is how one should analyze the thoughts.

Thoughts come as desires,when not fulfilled it leads to anger & worry.That’s why we need to introspect