Do you find yourself dwelling on
the unimportant, stressing on the unintended, and freaking over the unknown? When
you do this does it work for you? I doubt it, dwelling on the unimportant, or
freaking out over the unknown simply doesn't work. I know because when I was younger,
I did this from time to time and I found it was like lighting a match, in a
dark room, to make sure no one spilled any gunpowder on my bicycle, under the
stairs, near the back porch, in the dark of February.
Actually, some of what I just said
was intentionally unimportant, to hopefully distract you from feeling any
stigma for freaking out over earlier unknowns.
Why
do we think stressing on the unintended or freaking out over the unknown will
work, perhaps it because it allows us to be distracted from doing something
rather than doing nothing? If we attempt to do something and something
unintended happens, this means we have not considered all aspects of our plan
so we are now faced with something we had not thought of that has happened. One
way to face this issue is to embrace it, learn from it and incorporate it into
what we do next. The other way is to stress about it, run from it and reject it,
or we could just stress about it and do nothing. The best way to prevent this
from happening is to think about what you want to do and consider all possibilities
and how you will react to them.
What
does freaking out about the unknown do for you except to increase your blood
pressure, your anxiety and cause grief for people around you? If you don’t know
what is happening or there is an unknown confronting you, get information about
it before you act. Asking questions is a good method and a good way to start to
find out what is going on, try it, it works.
Dwelling
on the unimportant things in your life is a coping mechanism to help you hide
from dealing with the important aspects of your life. We all know what is important
to us and we need to deal with these first.
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