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This is optimal living daily episode 1219 letting go of the thoughts that make us worry by Allison Carmen of Allison Carmen dot com. And I'm just a mollock.

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Letting go of the thoughts that make us worry by Allison Carmen of Allison Carmen dot com. A few years ago, I submitted an article to a large online magazine.

I was friends with one of the editors and thought it would be a great piece for them to publish. Before I submitted it, I spoke to my friend and she seemed a little resistant to the idea of a self-help piece running in the magazine.

I told her not to worry about it if it wasn't a good fit. After I submitted it through my friend, I did not hear from anyone from the magazine for weeks.

When I saw my friend, she did not mention it to me and seemed distant and cold. Every time I saw her after I submitted the article, she continued to be a Louvre.

And I started to be anxious and worried that I had done something to offend her. I went over it in my mind again and again trying to remember what I said and what I did that could have upset her.

I was left with the uncertainty of never hearing back from the magazine and my friend avoiding me. After weeks of suffering with these thoughts, I remembered the following Buddhist story.

A hunter is trying to catch a monkey that is stealing food from his town. Even after a very long time of chasing after the monkey, he still had no luck.

The monkey was quite clever and would run fast, climb and jump from tree to tree. The hunter began to feel it was nearly impossible to capture the monkey.

Just as the hunter was about to give up, a wise old man gave him some instructions on how to accomplish the task.

He was told to get a rope, a coconut, some sugar, and some peanuts. Following the old man's instructions, the hunter cut a portion off the top of the coconut, leaving a small hole in the center, just big enough to fit a monkey's hand.

He then placed peanuts with sugar inside the hole and tied the coconut to a tree with the rope.

Since it was getting late, he then called it a night and went home to get some rest.

The next morning when the hunter woke up, he went to check on his coconut.

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