Worrying

[fraggle]

@Jobuys

Isn´t it also that a mind that is constantly worried ( in the most common sense, as it is put forward in the thread) is not able to see sthg clear, let alone sthg new?

True

@Jobuys

why do we do it ?

Maybe we should start by looking at it in terms of reward/punishment.

@Jobuys

Has it to do with conditioning?

For me the answer is yes.

@Jobuys

Aren,´t we told to worry,?

Not explicitly, but implicitly. That is: to me it is a self-conditioning based on experiences (our own or heard from others) of reward/punishment that we (or others) have had from any previous action.

For example, let’s say a child breaks something for the first time that he doesn’t know is valuable to others, so he doesn’t think anything of it. Then, when his parents become aware of it, they admonish him and punish him for it. At that point the child is not directly told to worry next time, but most likely the next time he breaks something he will worry in anticipation of possible punishment. If that happens, the pattern/self-conditioning is already stored and will emerge in due course in future life situations (whether as a child or as an adult, and whether one has experienced a similar situation oneself before, or has heard the experiences of others in similar situations).

Does it make sense to you?

[hermann]

this is a description of thoughts structure and activity . @fraggle
and you pointed out different Situations of it’s arising

) : german language : hilft es dabei das Denken jetzt zu fühlen ?
Does it help to feel the thinking now?

the structure of thought at work
.and because it’s always going when awake
it schould not be rare .

[SylviaG]

Adding more from K, for predictable or unpredictable, whatever…:
He says, “Why do you live with problems?”
Act promptly and never postpone.
K’s advice helps to deal with problem(s), one at a time, no accumulation… God!..