"There are questions we can ask ourselves to help us escape a situation that we find vexing. Just focusing outside of a limited perspective helps us to see ourselves delivered and well. We must see it by using the same what-if that is so easy for us in negative ways. We need to use all our mental and spiritual resources to see ourselves free. It is never that we are sick and trying to get well - but that we are well and something is trying to make us sick."
Many people spend a ton of time focusing on the negative. I know I do. And I've come to understand that an awareness of potential dangers and problems can be a very effective survival technique. People that never worry have a tendency to walk into running buzz saws. But I also believe that we can get into the habit of worrying too much about unimportant things or imagining terrible disasters involving the important things in our lives that are not likely to happen. So the next time you hear an emergency siren maybe not imagine that it's an ambulance rushing a dying loved one to the hospital. The chances of that being the case are vanishingly small. Worrying about them is not productive.
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