The Best Mantra I Ever Came Up With

It might help you too!

The best mantra I’ve ever come up with for myself is this one:

I don’t have to figure that out right now.

I know.

It’s very simple.

But I use it often. When I’m getting anxious about a particular thing - anything, really - stuff related to money, emails I need to read/write/send, decisions or phonecalls I need to make, things I need to do … whatever!

Often as not it’s true that I don’t have to figure it out right away. (Stuff usually just figures itself out anyway - or that’s the way it is for me. Let it percolate & an answer or decision will come to me later.)

Saying it to myself helps defuse anxiety - for me, anyway!

Helpful quotation to go along with it:

“Do you have the patience to wait ‘til your mud settles and the water is clear?

Can you remain unmoving ‘til the right action arises by itself?” – Lao-tzu

This one too:

“Be careful not to do something permanently stupid because you are temporarily angry, stressed, scared, tired or hungry.” – Karen Salmansohn

You’re welcome!

🙂

Janet

p.s. 2 other mantras I came up with along the way that also help me out from time to time:

“Cut your losses. Go where the energy is.”

&

“Stay on the path. Don’t look down.”