Just because something takes up a lot of space in our mind doesn’t make it important. How often do we amplify the trivial? Make mountains out of mole hills? Stir up tempests in teapots?
The fact is, we all do it a lot. We weave stories into the future of a given problem or situation as a way to assuage our fears, calm our nerves and prepare ourselves for the worst case scenario. The irony is that worst case scenarios usually catch us off guard, they happen unexpectedly. And the thing we’ve been working ourselves into a lather over, turns out to be nothing at all.
Amplification is exhausting. Surely we can use that energy more productively. The truth, as Martha Beck says, is that, “[e]verything always passes, and everything is already okay. Stay in the place where you can see that, and nothing will resist you."
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