A SMALL STORY🔗

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.

DROP WORRY

AND TASTE

THE

SWEETNESS

OF LIFE!

The thoughts we generate per second is directly related to stress. Your thoughts are always about your past or your future. You can only think about what happened in the past or what will happen in the future. Your thoughts of the past are usually regrets about what you did not do or guilt about what you did. Thoughts of the future are about what you wish to do. Neither the past nor the future is real. The past is gone. All we try to do is use our past to steer the future. The future is even more unreal, it has not happened. Your have very little control over future.

Your thoughts are nothing but the movement of your mind between past and future. If only you allowed the mind to rest or even persuaded your mind to rest, you will find that you reach a blissful state. The state is the present moment. When thought frequency or thoughts per second or TPS comes down, we naturally rest in to the present movement.