Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye.

Worrying, we do it all the time without even realizing it. And as the saying goes, worrying is like sitting in a

rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. A friend of

mine recently fell down some stairs in her home, which completely changed the trajectory of her life, but in a good way, at least in part, because up until she fell, she spent her life worrying about things like having her identity stolen from shopping online,

forgetting the stove turned on and burning down the house,

boarding international flights lest they crash and so on.

But she never worried about the stairs in her home, which actually turned out to be the only

clear and present danger to her well-being.

Mor honestly, the stairs themselves aren't necessarily as dangerous as mindlessly descending them turned out to be.

We worry about our appearance, missing deadlines, and things like quicksand of all things,

shark attacks, killer spiders, and getting mugged.

I think we watch too much TV.

It makes me think of the quote, I have lived through some terrible things in my life.

Some of them actually happened. Well I don't know if we can ever

completely stop worrying. I do know we can let go of our worries the moment they come up.

You've heard me define mindfulness as the gap between impulse and action, but it can also be a gap between thoughts. This way, thinking you may have

forgotten to close the garage door when you left for work in the morning,

doesn't lead to worrying you'll be robbed of all your belongings.

Returned to a gutted house and worrying your insurance company would deny your

imaginary claim because there was no sign of breaking an anry, so you would end up

bankrupt homeless and alone all because one thought spiraled out of

control.

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