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<\/p>\nIt is 2 p.m. on a rainy Thursday afternoon. I am sitting at my desk, occasionally glancing over to the window to watch the rain pour down.\u00a0 In some ways, I needed it to be a rainy day today.\u00a0 Rainy days are always symbolic of cleansing to me.<\/p>\n
The past few weeks have been full of worry over a lot of things\u2026big and small.\u00a0 This week’s worry is my sick Beagle, Bella.<\/p>\n
Worry is something that is hard to escape.\u00a0 So many things happen in our lives\u2026things that have the tendency to flip the switch from calm to worry\/anxiety\/uneasiness (whatever you would like to call it).<\/p>\n
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Over the years, I have learned many things about myself.\u00a0 One of these things is that I worry and that as hard as I try, I’m not sure that I will ever be able to escape worry.<\/p>\n
Now, to be fair to myself, I have learned how to curb a lot of it through deliberate mindfulness.\u00a0 I try my hardest not to sweat the small stuff.\u00a0 And when I do find myself worrying about something minor\u2026I thump myself on top of my head (metaphorically).\u00a0 The small stuff is truly small.\u00a0 Time passes and tends to fix all of it.\u00a0 It’s not worth the energy.<\/p>\n
The big stuff is another story.\u00a0 I do worry about it and it does follow me around.\u00a0 That’s the part that I have embraced.\u00a0 The part that I have worked really hard on, however, is realizing that while worry will happen and will follow me around, it will be temporary.\u00a0 It will go away.\u00a0 Things will get better.\u00a0 When I think that way I feel as if I allow a cleansing downpour to sweep over me.\u00a0 It is a much needed release.<\/p>\n
Worry is universal. We all experience it.\u00a0 Some more so than others but we all do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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