Our mind is our best friend and our mind is our worst enemy too. When the mind is present, it is our best friend. If it is not present – if it is confused or scattered, then it can put us into a soup.
The way to handle the mind is wisdom. Wisdom is seeing life from a bigger perspective.
Understand a little bit about the body, the breath, a little bit about our mind – how it oscillates between the past, future and worries.
Recent research says that 85% of our worries never happen. The remaining 15% -14.5% – we can easily handle. That last 0.5% – we always get some help.
So there is no real reason to worry, yet still we go on worrying. Intellectually we know it’s pointless, but the mind goes on and on- like an old gramophone record where the needle gets stuck and the same thing keeps repeating. People usually drink or get addicted to alcohol or other drugs – then the mind stops. But with all these, the repercussions on the body and the consciousness are huge. There are more effective and simpler ways to handle a worrying mind.
A worried mind is like a stuck record – wisdom is simply lifting the needle.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
