![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/F1C6CFE9-E7CC-4BCA-A6B1-CA891CE29B62-1024x1024.jpeg\")
<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nThis is my theory about worry. \u00a0 Creative minds are really good at it. \u00a0I mean really<\/b> good at it. \u00a0You might think of worry as a side effect of a creative, imaginative brain. \u00a0An idea pops into our minds and before we realise it we have created a whole long scenario of what might happen, what could happen, and we end up scared.<\/p>\n
I recall many episodes like this when I was a kid, when I took an idea and ran with it until I scared myself silly. \u00a0It always mystified me that the adults didn\u2019t understand. \u00a0They looked at me as if I was hopelessly from another planet. \u00a0Who knows….?<\/p>\n
Anyway, as I grew up I gradually learned to handle worry. \u00a0I still have a weakness for it to be sure, but now I work hard to stop myself when I notice fear is building. \u00a0I can see that I am afraid of what might happen, what could happen. \u00a0To counter those thoughts I focus on what is right in front of me right now. \u00a0Then I can see that none of my elaborated thoughts are here in the room with me. \u00a0The trick is to set fear aside. \u00a0That is an act of will. \u00a0Time to focus on something else. \u00a0Time to corral my thoughts and imagination and do or think something positive. \u00a0Dwelling in fear doesn\u2019t help anything.<\/p>\n
Making stuff works for me\u2014whether it is following a recipe, a knitting pattern, or writing my thoughts out in this blog, it turns a key that gets my mind busy solving something I can handle.<\/p>\n
Creative minds tell stories, we make good things, we turn negatives into positives. \u00a0Socks or tortillas, apple pie or art, making stuff, fixing stuff, cleaning stuff\u2014it helps. \u00a0Though I am not terribly enthusiastic about the cleaning stuff part…<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/FD331A45-2884-4461-9283-4A3F27476784-e1600966741598.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BDE16A5F-2E62-459A-9E84-BDDCC6D36030-e1598455830188-1024x1024.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/61D26DE0-6BD4-4A9D-ADA7-E743C7E45961-e1598455787946-1024x1024.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n
I could worry about the fact that my tortillas came out too small, and maybe I did for a little while… \u00a0 Even little worries can be toxic.<\/p>\n
The worries are many\u2014social injustice, environmental, political, personal health and well-being. \u00a0Finding our way through all the worry is our job right now. Keeping our spirits up so that we can respond to what needs doing is our job right now.<\/b><\/p>\n
Hold on, hold on.
\nAnd thanks for sharing time with me in my coffee drinking station.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/AE99F636-B54C-4089-A210-997FFD92AD5B-e1568563567483-768x1024.jpeg\")
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Thinking out loud…in my coffee drinking station. This is my theory about worry. \u00a0 Creative minds are really good at it. \u00a0I mean really good at it. \u00a0You might think of worry as a side effect of a creative, imaginative brain. \u00a0An idea pops into our minds and before we realise it we have created … Continue reading “A Chat About Worry”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}