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Dharmapunx NYC

Why We Worry and Ways to Stop

Dharmapunx NYC

josh korda

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:buddhism

4.8938 Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2014

⏱️ 36 minutes

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0:00.0

So I like to start by presenting two categories of experience, some examples.

0:09.8

And the first category will be the tons in life when we become needlessly worried or activated for no reason.

0:17.0

And the second set of examples will be the times in life when we're completely caught off guard when we weren't in any way

0:28.2

vigilant.

0:31.2

So one example would be in say work where we might find ourselves worried at the slightest sign of there being any possibility that the job will end or a boss doesn't like

0:47.0

or doesn't like us, our personality or something.

0:52.0

As opposed to one of those situations where we're working and then out of the blue we get

0:58.6

downsized. In England they call it made redundant. I like that phrase a little bit more, although it's kind of awful to be told you're redundant.

1:10.0

But they find that a more humane way to refer to it.

1:15.0

So a second example might be in dating that awful arena where we might become activated because we've

1:29.6

been dating someone and they don't return a text message because I guess that's the way all communications are achieved these days.

1:38.0

No one using a phone anymore or talking face to face. So somebody might not return a text message and

1:49.5

we might become activated and think they're losing interest, as opposed to somebody suddenly breaking up with us when we're not in any way prepared for it.

2:01.0

And another example, you're walking on the street and you see somebody who looks for some reason, triggering, suspicious, and you become needlessly activated and anxious.

2:26.0

As opposed to a situation in life or suddenly out of the blue,

2:29.0

you might get attacked by a lunatic,

2:33.0

mugger and other, let me see,

2:36.2

a hooligan.

2:40.0

You get attacked by somebody for your iPhone

2:42.4

who runs away. So. you get the example

2:47.0

the example is between all the times in life we become needlessly activated

2:51.6

and those times in life are out of the blue, something bad happens

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