Week 50 – How to make worry your new best friend.
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Topic of the Week
How to make worry your new best friend.
This morning I woke up worrying.
It didn’t start out that way. I opened my eyes to bright sunlight and smiled as I felt the warmth of Michael’s body next to mine and the familiar weight of Poupon cuddled on top of my feet.
My moment of bliss went to hell in a handbasket though, the moment my mind joined the party and created a racket!
I only have 17 days left to shop for Christmas.
I still haven’t shipped the gifts piled up in the pantry.
It’s too cold out to take them to the UPS store.
I hope Michael doesn’t freeze to death at the football game today.
How do those guys play ball in thirty-degree weather anyway? Don’t their hands go numb?
My hands hurt.
What if the arthritis is getting worse from all the typing I’ve been doing?
It’s probably my diet.
I need to drink more green juice.
And swear off dairy and wheat and anything white forever and ever.
Oh, and I have to give up chocolate.
But I still have more typing to do to get through all the email sitting in my inbox.
I’ve been lazy about responding to email.
Because I’m such a procrastinator
What if people think I don’t care about them?
Crap, they probably already think that.
I bet my friend Marie hates me because I haven’t gotten back to her about dinner.
Speaking of dinner, what the heck am I going to do with all the food in the fridge left over from the holiday party last night?
Ok, ok, I said to my mind in a firm, parental tone. Knock it off!
I rolled over, cuddled closer to Michael, and wiggled my toes to include Poupon in the love.
Then I closed my eyes and remembered…
I forgot to remember that worry is my prompt.
It’s a signal.
A request for my presence.
A reminder to come home to where sanity lives.
I breathed in slowly and repeated my mantra:
This present moment is peaceful.
This present moment is powerful.
This present moment is all there is.
And when that doesn’t work, I just remind myself that any day now I could die and none of these thoughts will matter.
At all.
Morbid, I know. But it works. There’s nothing more important than being fully alive in this moment.
A good thing to remember, especially over the next month when too many of us make worrying a full-time job … 
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Video
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Life Makeover For The Year 2013 (sm) is written and produced by Cheryl Richardson. If you have any questions or comments, or for reprint permission of this newsletter, please email:cheryl@cherylrichardson.com.
