Get out of your comfort zone
If you really want to come out of your worries, you will come out right now, without trying to justify any of your worries.
The thing is, our very worries become our comfort zone. We hide in them. Hiding and merely talking about them helps us to remain lazy.
Someone asks Mahavira, an enlightened Jain master from Bharat, 'Who is the one who has worries?'
He beautifully replies, 'The person who is worried.'
They ask him, 'What is the cause of worry?' He replies, 'Laziness.'
Then they ask him, 'Who ends worries?' He replies, 'Man himself.'
They ask him, 'How can worry be ended?' He replies, 'By dropping laziness.'
If you drop laziness, you fall into right action. And when you fall into right action, you drop worry. Your comfort with worry can be understood even from the way you react to other people's worries. If you keenly watch, you will observe that whenever a person talks to you about his worries, you first tell them, 'What can you do … That's just the way it happens …' You never straightaway give a solution to them. When you do this, be very clear, you are not only encouraging them, but you are also encouraging yourself to remain comfortably in the worry zone.
If you really observe, we love to worry and talk about it. It makes us feel that we are shouldering a lot of problems. It makes us feel important, like the world can't make it without us to take care of it.
When you see a problem, if you want a solution, you never dwell upon the problem even for a second. You simply switch to the solution, that's all! In the same way, for every worry there is an instant solution. You have to want it; that is the key.
Most of the time, you prefer to stay in the comfort zone of your worry. It keeps you settled. For example, let's say you are visiting your child at college. You see a few students keeping their rooms all messy, or exchanging clothes and wearing them. You record the whole scene in your mind and assume that is the way of life in the dorm itself. You advise your child to keep her things neat and not to wear others' clothes. Even if she tells you her things are in order and that she doesn't wear others' clothes, you will not readily erase or reprogram your recording. You stick with the earlier recording of what you observed.
There probably were many other beautiful things to record in the dorm – like the joy of the students, the campus itself, etc., but every time you think of your daughter, only this one recording comes up and you worry about her. Not only that, anyone you meet, you talk about how things are a mess in her dorm and how everyone exchanges clothes and wears them! The recording itself is not the truth. But you choose to have it as your comfort zone. You reinforce it.
Even your worry related to wealth is like this. If making money is the worry, then it clearly means, somewhere laziness is pulling you back into the comfort of worry. If you discard laziness and move, you make money. There are a million opportunities in today's world to make money.
Drop Worry, pick up health
When you create more thoughts inside you through worry, the load on the navel region increases. It is from the navel region that thoughts or worries arise. When you create more and more thoughts, you feel the heaviness in your stomach. There is an energy center in the navel area called the manipuraka chakra. This energy center starts shrinking with the heaviness of worry.
This energy center responds directly to worry, and affects the stomach. That is why when you worry about something your stomach starts becoming uneasy. Or when you hear shocking news you say, 'I can't digest it …' Any disturbing news causes your stomach to churn. The stomach is very sensitive to thoughts.
There was a doctor famous for his extraordinary and effective treatment of arthritis. He always had a waiting room full of people.