CONSTANT WORRY
CONSTANT WORRY How can we ease off from constantly worrying about our children? Many of us feel exhausted by our anxious hovering over their lives. We feel totally responsible for protecting them from every imaginable adversity. We worry about accidents, muggers, sickness, kidnappers, molesters, thunderstorms, electrical outlets, radiation, germs, violence on TV, playground bullies, household cleaners, dogs, pesticides, drugs, and nuclear war - just to name a few possibilities! We want them to be happy, well adjusted, and optimistic, without worrying about their physical safety or emotional security. Yet we know that keeping them safe and secure in a precarious and dangerous world is impossible, in spite of our constant vigilance. We cannot guarantee that nothing bad will happen to them. Not only are we preoccupied with worries about them, but we sometimes persecute ourselves with the fear that our worries will turn them into hypochondriacs and neurotic worriers. Thankfully, we are learning to trust our higher power. We are gradually letting go of the illusion that we are alone in the universe - the only ones assigned to our children's safety and welfare. We first learn to trust our higher power in our own lives and we are now learning to entrust the safety and welfare of our children to our higher power. We no longer feel alone and overwhelmed by the responsibilities of protecting our children. I am learning to trust my higher power to both protect my children and calm my worried mind.Click here to listen to this meditation.
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