WORRY - how to deal with it.

Hullo everyone, and welcome to my blog.

Today I would like to share with you about the emotion of worry.

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine the emotion of worry is connected to the Earth element,the spleen and stomach. Many of us are very good at worrying...I think worrying is about not being able to think of anything else except the issue at hand.

Let's look at a few examples of worry:

Your teenager has gone to the city  - a nightclub - he won't be back til late.  He doesnt want you to pick him up - he's already 18 after all!!!! So you go to bed at 10 p.m. but you cant sleep, and you toss and turn and imagine all the worst things that could happen to him.

Another example:

Your grandson has pneumonia, he's only 11 months old and lives many miles away.  You imagine him lying limp in his mother's arms and all your greatest fears arise.  You keep thinking about him and can't think about anything else. You feel sick in your stomach.  You dont go out for the day because you're too worried. You keep ringing your daughter but she doesnt answer. So you think something terrible has happened.

This is worry.  How can we deal with worry so that we can get on with our lives even though there are things happening to our loved ones or ourselves?

Master Sha, my spiritual teacher has many wonderful spiritual practices in his books to help us with worry.

Here's one you may like to try:

Use the Four power techniques:
Body Power: Sit up straight, put your tongue to the roof of your mouth. Put one palms on your lower abdomen and the other on your spleen, just under the rib cage and on the left side of the front of the body.
Mind Power: Focus on the first soul house - or first chakra, at the base of the torso in the middle of the body. Imagine a golden ball rotating there.
Sound Power: Chant or repeat silently or aloud: Gong Ya You Tao ( pronounced gawng ya yoe dow)
Soul Power:
Dear Divine, Dear Tao
Dear Heaven, Mother Earth and countless planets, stars, galaxies and universes,
Dear all my spiritual fathers and mothers in all layers of Heaven and on Mother Earth,
Dear Tao Song
I love you honour you and appreciate you.
When I sing the Tao song mantra for the Earth element, please clear soul mind body blockages from my Earth element and heal my emotion of worry.
I am very grateful.
Thank you thank you thank you.

Chant for 3-5 mins - or much longer - the longer the better.

Notice how you feel now!

This is a wonderful way to heal worry and leave you feeling relaxed and accepting of what is for the moment. If worry arises again, do the practice again.  Of course sometimes we can take action as well, for example, we may insist on picking our son up around the corner from the nightclub, or fly to be with our daughter and grandson to help them.

As Master Sha says: "If you want to know if the pear is sweet, taste it."
If you want to know if this works, try it!

Love you and wishing you all the best in your journey to healing your emotions.
Love Julia