Worry much?

I don’t know much about Mark Twain to be honest.  I’ve never even read one of his books (adding it to bucket list now).  But this post is inspired by one of his quotes – matched and mirrored by several personal events over the last few weeks.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.   ~ Mark Twain

Worry = Dis-ease.  It’s simple. 

The number one best thing that you can do for your health is to just stop worrying. 

Let me repeat on behalf of the late Mark Twain, “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”   ~ Mark Twain.

Now, let me share my worries from the last two weeks.  I feared that my yoga classes for the teachers were going to suck. They didn’t.  I was worried I wouldn’t finish my progress reports in time.  I finished them.  I was worried that I would’t be able to talk to my room-mothers about what I wanted them to do in my class (since I had no clue).  The meeting lasted 70 minutes.  I worried that my trigeminal nerve was going to hurt like a mo-fo Tuesday night.  It did.  I was worried that I wouldn't finish everything I needed to.  I didn't.  Now it’s Thursday night, and I am cannon balling into the weekend.  Worry-free.

Here is what I have in terms of ditching the anxiety. 

1.    Let go of not good enough.  You are perfect just as you are. Baron Baptiste would remind us of this as we eagerly entered our teacher trainings.

2.    Drop what do they think of me? They’re not.  They’re spending most of their time wondering what you (and everyone else) is thinking of them.

3.    What you focus on grows.  Think happy thoughts.  If they are too hard to muster up, go sit in a park and observe. 

4.    If you don’t like how something is going, change it.  Don’t wait for it to change itself.

5.    Practice yoga.  There is nothing like dialling into your body and buffing up your lorry.

6.    Let go of your expectations.  Attaching to them is a one-way ticket to suffer-ville.  Things seldom turn out as we imagine/expect they will.

7.  When you sense a gossip session coming on, run.

8.  Read Robert Frost

9.  Trade your worry in.  In your own pseudo swap-shop, exchange your concern  for one that fires you up to act with passion.

10.  Let go of your need to change others.  There is no should be.

11.  Let go of the things you cannot change. 

12. Inhale love.  Exhale worry. 

13. Listen to piano music.