Day 11
What worries are running your life? In the forefront of your mind and the background?
Worries about money, time, energy, resources running out, aliens invading Earth and not taking you with them back to their home planet, your check engine light being too expensive to investigate.
Many cultures have a practice of expressing worries in a way that feels like handing them over to someone else. One example of this is a “God box”, where you write your worries down and give them over to God. Another is “worry dolls”, little handmade dolls that you place under your pillow while you sleep so they can take the anxiety away.
It can be freeing to put your worries down on paper. Get them out of your head. Give them to your journal.
Do you worry more about the past or the future?
Do you rehash the things you’ve done and think of all the ways you should or could have done them better?
Do you think about the future and how everything can go wrong?
Do you think about the present, worrying in real time and allowing that to interfere with your current choices? Do you interpret other people’s actions and words through a fearful lens, to the point that you don’t have peaceful conversations?
Write everything down that comes to mind. If a negative thought comes up but it doesn’t seem like a worry, ask yourself what the fear or concern behind it is. Write that down.
Melissa Reddick 
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