1. Worry Book 2

V o l u m e 2

THE SUPREME PONTIFF OF HINDUISM BHAGAWAN SRI NITHYANANDA PARAMASHIVAM

The inner chattering which is continuously giving you a shrinking feeling, the negative feeling, is what is called worry. If you look deeply into worry, as to what it means or what it does, you will see that it is sort of a shrinking feeling. It is playing words in your mind, the words that make you depressed, again and again..

Worry is nothing but giving words to yourself thinking you will not fulfil the words you gave to yourself. Words like " whatever I do I will not be successful, I am going na, that's all. I am going na, let's see what will happen?" No these are the words constantly you give for you. This is what is worrying.

Greed is a positive problem. Fear is a positive problem. Worry is a negative space, it is not a positive problem because you carry on the hangovers of the past. Like darkness is lightlessness, worrying is unawareness. The moment you remember it disappears.

you don't remember the solution when you worry. That is one more worry . You worry thinking that you are not going to remember the solution why you worry.

A unique component is added in THE navel centre to create worry. Inauthenticity and NON-Integrity alone does not create worry. You need to add forgetfulness to it, then worry is cooked. Worry is the combination of inauthenticity, lack of Integrity and forgetfulness. When you remember your inauthenticity and out of Integrity, you reach peace. When you forget your inauthenticity and out of Integrity, you worry. So basically When you are non integrated , inauthentic and have forgetfulness you are worried!

Worrying is locking your Manipuraka and throwing the key in the ocean

Worry is when your Manipuraka is locked and key is thrown in the ocean because you don't even remember that you have gone wrong somewhere you just start panicking , see if you kept the key in the locker, at least at one point there is a possibility you can open the locker, and remember the locker and get the key back and open. You have just thrown the key in the ocean means, the only way is to break the manipuraka chakra; that can be done by initiation.

Manipuraka Chakra deals with worry. This chakra is placed just above the naval center, This chakra is locked due to worry and depression. This opens when you go beyond worrying, when you transcend the worry. If you don't worry about the worries, the worry will start worrying how to make you worry! This chakra gets locked because of worries.

If you have noticed, the world over, if something untoward happens, people normally say, 'I can't digest it!' This expression exists in all the languages. 'I can't stomach it!' How is stomach and worry connected, why do you sometimes feel that there is no hope left and everything is somehow going the wrong way? Both are deeply connected. So, when you throw out your worries, your stomach will be completely relaxed. You will enter into a new world. Your sufferings, worries, depressions, everything will be simply thrown out. You will not be worried about worries. So when you have a painful stomach, you have worries!

If the outer reason can be the real cause for worry, how can that come for all of you?! Everyone of you say you have worries., one person may say, I don't have children. Because of that I worry. The person sitting next to you will tell, I have children, that is the great worry for me! One man may say, I don't have money, that is the worry for me. But the very next person will tell, I have too much money. I don't know how to keep it secure, how to preserve it. All my relatives, all my people are waiting to see me die, so that they can snatch away this money. That is my worry! The reasons vary from man to man. But the truth is that YOU are the cause for worry

When you commit with you and others... do not honour - that is incompletion. Those incompletions become hangover in you... when the incompletions become layer and layer, you become forgetful even about the incompletions. Forgetfulness happens to you when you are overwhelmed by constant incompletion of thoughts happening inside you and that leads to constant worrying to happen inside you. What leads us

When you repeat these DEMOTIVATING DISCOURAGING (LIKE "OH I CAN'T STUDY, MY LIFE IS A FAILURE ETC.) words unconsciously, these words will be a weight, a hangover on you. This will be continuously disturbing and haunting you, without your knowledge, without your consciousness. From the unconscious it will be a terrible disturbance to you. Only such words are ' worry '. These words, when they are repeated again and again, without your consciousness, without you awareness, without your knowledge and notice, they create a feeling, which is called ' worry '. If they are solidified, if they become solid in your being, that state is what is called 'depression'. You are completely in low mood. Not even a single ray of hope, a single ray of light is in your being.

The continuous thought flow happening in you, even though you don't want to have it is worry. There are 2 types of conversation - Outer conversation and inner conversation. You can always stop outer conversations. outer conversations creates your identity in the outer world. Inner conversation creates your identity in the inner world. When there is a conflict between these two, your whole life is in conflict. When there is a tuning between this 2 your whole life is living enlightenment. Either you start creating the inner conversation tuned to the outer or tune the outer to the inner. one of the

biggest suffering human beings create for themselves, is the outer conversation and inner conversation not being in tune. Tune the outer conversation and inner conversation, you are free. All worries disappear.

How to come out of it? Just use the same key! The same key can be used either to lock a door or to unlock it. Now you have understood only your inner chattering. Talking to you yourself, the inner talking is the main problem. That is the thing that creates worry.

You can verily change the inner chattering. You can verily change the words that are continuously being displayed in your being. Whenever you are conscious, whenever you are aware, just start changing the words! Just start putting the right words! However, it is a process that takes some time. You need to work on this process. You need to work little bit on your Manipuraka Chakra, with your inner chattering. But when you have worked on it, when you have cleared it, you will see that you are in heaven. The suffering just disappears at once! This very understanding will clear your Manipuraka Chakra.

The key, the mantra, to open your Manipuraka Chakra is this: have positive thinking, positive words, continuously. When you utter the positive words, the mind which is trained already in negativity is not going to agree. It is not going to allow you to be in peace. Don't bother. Don't worry. In one corner of your mind, your mind will be telling, in one corner of your being, your mind will tell, "Just by uttering a few positive words, do you think that I will become silent?!"

In the next state, neither 'I' consciousness nor the flow of thoughts exists. This is deep sleep. This is called suṣupti. The three states are jāgrat, svapna, suṣupti—conscious, subconscious, unconscious.

Cribbing is the first stage cancer, chronic worrying is the last stage cancer, that's all. But last stage cancer always starts as first stage cancer. In the first stage if you don't do the chemotherapy of integrity and completion, the first stage is going to become fourth stage. Understand, worry is nothing but giving words to yourself thinking you will not know the words you gave it to you. Worry leads to hypocrisy.

The moment you bring authenticity into your thinking, worry disappears. As long as you don't bring authenticity into your thinking, integrity into your thinking, worry continues to rule you. How many of you cognise, you want to get out of this cute cribbing, worrying? Now bring authenticity into your thinking, integrity into your thinking.

Bring remembrance to your Authenticity and Integrity, inauthenticity and out of Integrity, worry will disappear. straight, crisp solutions. It will not be there. When you honour your commitments to you and others with Integrity, you achieve reality. When you honour your life with Authenticity, you go beyond fear, you become fearless, courageous, authentic. When you explain to yourself with the remembrance, Integrity and Authenticity, your worry disappears. So the simple straight solution to be out of worry is Remembrance.

Only from outside, we think that others are not worrying. When you come near, share with others, when you share your life with others, when you share your worry with each other, you will have a very clear understanding that your worries are much better than others worries.

Once, in a kingdom ruled over by a very benevolent king, many people came to the king and reported to him that they were in very deep worries. They were reportedly unable to come out of their worries. However the common refrain was that the other person was not worrying! Only he was worrying. This naturally disturbed the king a bit, and he decided, "If everybody says so, why not have an exchange offer? Let us have an exchange offer!" He hit upon an idea and gave the instructions – whomsoever wants to exchange their worries with the others can come and participate.

The function was elaborately organized. After all it is not everyday that one gets to exchange ones worries! In the center of a big plain ground, a big pot was placed, a ' worry pot' as it were. Into this pot, each willing person could throw his worries, tied up in a bag. But he had to pick up some other bag. After all it was an exchange offer. They were free to throw in their worry bag and pick up any other bag.

The whole kingdom gathered and there was a festive air, an air of expectancy. Who would start first? They saw each other and started talking to each other, and when they shared their worries with each other, shared each other's problems, the king saw that at the end of the allotted time, nobody was ready to throw in their worry! Nobody had come forward to put his worry into the pot!

The king asked, "What happened?" Everybody said in one voice, "The worry that we already have itself is enough. Now at this stage if we get some new worries, we do not know how to face it! At least we are acquainted with our existing worries. We are comfortable with it. We can pull or push and drag our life along with the known worries. But if we are to get new worries, we will have new worries, just thinking about how to deal with the new worries! After all, a known devil is better than an unknown angel! We will have to get settled with the unknown devil. Because surely the new worry will not be an angel. Who knows whether we will be able to get settled at all? No, we don't know!" So, nobody wants to even exchange the worries.

WORRY ONLY COMES FROM INSIDE, WHEN YOUR NOT ITEGRATED AND AUTHENTIC TO YOURSELF.

Worry takes root from your own thoughts or words. There are two things that continuously happen in you. The first is dialogue, and the second is monologue or what I call 'inner chatter'. You either talk to people outside or you continuously chatter within you. In any case, words and thoughts are the 'building blocks' that make up worry. When you speak to others, what you say is strictly governed by societal rules

You automatically don't use prohibited or 'politically incorrect' words. But what you say inside yourself, no one except you knows. The thoughts that you generate inside constitute your real worries. Khalil Gibran , a Lebanese poet, beautifully says, 'You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts!' and 'Our very verbalization is because we are not able to handle ourselves peacefully within us.' It is like this: there is a continuous current of chatter happening in you twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. From this current a few spikes rise.

These spikes are what you feel and express as worries. Worries are nothing but spikes in the current of thoughts constantly moving within you. These thoughts are mostly negative. That's the problem. If I ask you to write your life story in a few pages, you will write a few incidents highlighting how and when you struggled.

You will not highlight the many joyful incidents that happened in between. The mind is trained to record only negative things. Even when something joyful happens, you remember only the moment when it ended, never the moments when you felt joy. Because even when you are at the peak of joy, you are always worrying about when the joy will end! The mind is trained from a very young age to think that life moves from one worry to the other or from one pain to another, never from one joy to another.

To make them aware of the causes of the worry about negative thought, how worry differs from person to person

• v Why do we worry?
• v When do we have negative thoughts?
• v How is inner chatter related to worry?
• v What are the building blocks of worry?
• v Do worries differ from person to person? Is there any big worry better than small worry?
• v Does worry speed the process of solving our problems?
• v When do we start worrying?
• v What can change worrying?
• v What does a black dot on the white board signify?

Conclude the topic by reinforcing the fact - start looking at the happiness around us instead of thinking the minute worries. Try not to allow your mind to wander to the past/ future.

• Plain sheet,
• Worry chakra picture (Manipuraka)
• Sketch pen or
• Pencil
• Poster colors

Give each child a plain sheet and ask them to draw the worry chakra by seeing the picture or give them the chakra picture and ask them to color with poster colors or crayons.

The Manipuraka chakra is located in the navel region. In Sanskrit, Manipuraka means 'The City of Jewels'. This chakra is locked when you constantly worry and it flowers when you stop worrying about your worries!

Most of the time, we talk in the air without getting down to the actual facts. If we get down to the bottom of our so-called worries, we will understand that we are simply magnifying things that are not so bad at all.

Alright, now let us analyze what actually happens inside your mind when you are worrying. Just watch your mind when you are worrying about something.

You will see that a continuous stream of thoughts is being generated in your mind - totally disconnected thoughts - and usually negative thoughts. An influx of negative and repetitive words will be like a current in your mind.

MATERIALS NEEDED: One balloon per person

PREPARATION:

Gather everyone together and give each person a balloon.

• Ask each child to blow the balloon as big as they can and then tie it. If they want they can also create a face on the balloon using a sketch pen.
• Now explain that they are going to shout, rant and scream at the balloon, talk in gibberish about all the nonsense that is stored up inside. Then take the balloon and burst it. This is letting out with it pop all the built up stress in us and we feel free. While they are getting out all the negativity, they can be standing in separate corners in order to lessen the feelings of self consciousness.

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If we keep adding on more stress, eventually it will break our system. Burst the stress and be free from worry and any thoughts, get it out of your system and you will be instantly lighter and more clear. After that let them talk about how they felt and what was their experience. Lots of noise is stored in our mind and this helps us let it out.

What was your feeling inside your stomach?

• Pieces of paper
• Pencils
• Container or Jar

Have enough pencils and small pieces of paper for everyone. Make a label "WORRY-JAR" for the Jar and stick it on. PRESENTATION & DISCUSSION:

Talk about how we are always carrying around our worries and it blocks up the path to happiness. How can we be in bliss if we are thinking like "Oh I'm so blissful! But Tommy really made me angry yesterday by calling me names!" We are constantly thinking about the past or the future, but what about now? Let's focus on what we are doing today and leave the past behind and we'll cross the bridge of the future when we get there.

Show the worry jar and give each person a paper and pencil. Ask them to write something that is bothering them right now. Ask them if it is a real worry or something that is not worth worrying about. If it is not worth worrying about, write it down and drop it in the worry-jar and don't worry about it again!