The BEST Way to Punch Your Anxiety In The Gut

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Apr 7

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Yesterday I spent part of my day giving my mental energy away. Yep, not good. And I should know better.Every time you or I get anxious, we are mentally trespassing in someone's affairs.We're meddling in either God's business or someone else's and using up mental energy we need for our own issues.Living as a mental busybody happens when our inner monologue takes us into areas that are none of our business. Suffering is the result.

“But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people’s matters” (1 Peter 4:15 NKJ).

Dang! A busybody is grouped with murderers, thieves and evildoers! You can see how that might cause some suffering.

I am responsible for me, not you.

So tension, stress, anxiety and suffering arrive when I am being a busybody with my thoughts—mentally living outside of what is my own responsibility and business.When my thought life is consumed with how wrong I am being treated or what someone else should or shouldn’t be doing, then I am being a mental busybody.If I am worrying about tomorrow, then I'm meddling in God's business.All of my thoughts concerning other people may be true; however I have no control over other people

I only have control over me.

I cannot change people. Heck, I have a hard enough time changing me!This doesn’t mean that I condone or approve of other people’s choices. What it means is that what they do, or don’t do, is only under their own control.So why am I wasting MY brain cells thinking about something that I have no control over?

“If you are living your life and I am mentally living your life, who is here living mine? We’re both over there. Being mentally in your business keeps me from being present in my own.” -Byron Katie