Overwhelmed with worries? Even worry about not worrying? Make a box for yourself. Take time putting energy into the little box, decorating in an attractive motif and thinking healing thoughts while you do it.
You can write “worries” on it if you want to, but you will know it’s your worry box either way.
Whenever you have a worry, especially one you can’t let go of, write it down on a tiny strip of paper, roll it up and put it in the worry box. At the end of the week or month open them up and see how many of them actually happened. You will find that most of them did not happen. And of those that did, you handled them just fine.
This really helps if you keep at it. It’s easy to feel relieved then stop doing it. Sometimes things like this are very good medicine if taken regularly.
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lovely idea
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Thanks! It really does help me if I stick with it.
I would need bigger box… A much bigger box…
Understood – and you can make the box bigger and the paper small. The key is having some small strips of paper ready and quickly jot them down and put them in the box. Mine was stuff like this:
*I will fall asleep and not wake up in time to pick my daughter up from school.
*I’m worried the emergency vehicles that just went by the house are for my daughter’s school.
*I wish they would put a fence around the playground because of the stray dogs lately – I’m worried a kid will get very hurt.
*I’m worried that the kids will get the flu if they don’t let them wash their hands before lunch and it could turn to pneumonia or worse.
*It’s about to storm and my husband is late and I’m worried he’s in a terrible wreck.
I have worries all day long and sometimes worries when I don’t worry for a while about not worrying. When I am meditating. When I am deciding to turn the worry into a wish for something wonderful instead. When I put the worries in the box – that all helps alleviate some of the worry torment. It’s one tool. Try it. What if it helps?