Worrying about something that hasn’t happened is borrowing trouble from the future. Because you don’t have as much information as you will when and if the dreaded scenario happens, you don’t actually know what your options will be at that time. Anticipatory suffering not only diminishes this moment, it reduces your ability to creatively solve problems. The fear itself often causes more suffering than the event will, if it ever does happen. When fear arises, acknowledge it and give it its day in the light by consciously feeling it. When you do…
It dissolves.
