I always liked the thoughts expressed in that song,“Don’t Worry. Be Happy” If only life was that easy, right?
There’s another saying I learned from my friend David “Yeah Dave” Romanelli the wellness guy, “Neurons that fire together wire together.”
Pack Up Your Troubles
If you worry a lot, you become a world champion worrier who scans his or her mind to figure out something to worry about, even if you are on a beach in the tropics.
Rewire Your Brain With Meditation
To escape that place of worry, it takes a concentrated effort to focus on the positive and change the neuro-circuitry. To all you worriers out there, meditation is the best practice to initiate change and tilt your mind in a new more positive direction.
Worried you don’t have time? You can start by meditating for no more than five minutes at a time. Setting aside a short amount of time every day can get you started. Take a few quiet minutes to clear your brain and re-train it to go down that daily path to happiness. If you don’t know how, just search for guided meditation sites on the internet to get you started.
Need more ways relax and find calm amid everyday chaos?
Jim Brickman’s Soothe has ideas and music to help you de-stress.
For me, the best way to combat worry in the short run is to do something “left brained” like find-a-word puzzles, Solitaire on my phone, anything analytical to squelch my right brain”s creative doomsday scenarios. To fight worry in the long-run, I look outside myself and see and recognize all of the other caring beings in this universe – other people, angels, pets/animals, God – and know that there are other “good guys” doing what they can to fight injustice and spread aloha who are also looking out for me, too.. Knowing you are “never alone” is a huge comfort! ♡