When you are living a bad outcome before it happens, you worry and cause suffering for yourself. If you think about it vividly and put emotion behind it, your mind and body don’t know the difference between the real event and your imagined one. You are doing damage to yourself.
Instead, resolve to accept the worst. This is different than expecting the worst. Just say “If the worst happens, I’ll accept it, I’ll live, and I’ll move on.” Then you don’t have to be afraid of it anymore.
Then work to make sure the worst outcome does not happen and create a good outcome instead.
“Die first. Then you can go on with the business of living.” – Eckhart Tolle
Thanks for this. I’m always fighting the urge to worry like my late mother used to do. It is so unproductive.
Worry is a very bad word.