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SPIRITUAL ESSENCE
iii) When we find ourselves worrying about some future event it is the same habit of mind which wanders away from the present. Worry is catastrophic thinking; it is about imagining the worst possible outcome to a current or future situation. Thanks to the cultural feed of notions of security and safety our minds tend to excel at catastrophic thinking.
Once we recognize that we are engaging ourselves in these types of thinking it is necessary that we should remember the present. In the present we were either attending to meditation or purification or prayer. We should gently revert back to that present refusing to indulge in the patterns of thinking developed in the past. Once we come to the present moment our mind has not much to do except to attend to the task on hand. Mind then has nothing to do and that is the precise reason why it is so fond of keeping us stuck in the past or dwelling on the future.
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