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Worry is the misuse of imagination.
Yet, we do it every day.
We worry about things we can control, things we cannot control, things that have happened, things we think might happen, things we would like to happen and everything in between. We feel as only if we worry enough, the scary thing might never happen.
In this process, we create our own, scary parallel universes and we spend a vast amount of times in there. In the meantime, life goes on, opportunities, ideas, and people pass us by. Our anxiety makes us myopic and stuck in old ways of thinking.
Here’s the thing, though. We are all endlessly creative. You can misuse your creativity or not create at all, but you cannot diminish your inherent creative ability and potential. Also, you can only focus on one line of thinking at the time: you can either create or misuse the creativity, but you cannot do both at the same time.
This leads to a simple conclusion: when we worry, our creativity is already used up to create projections and scary universes. We have…
