Worrying is Not Caring (Part 1)

One of the most incorrect beliefs that we have acquired since childhood is that to worry is to care, that worrying is caring. Our parents are the people with whom we grow up and are closest to in our childhood. As soon as we are born, in fact even before we are born, even when we are in our mother’s womb, they start transmitting the energy of this belief through their thoughts and later on when we are physically present in front of them, through thoughts, words and actions; to us, which we catch, because we being a spiritual energy, not only transmit or radiate energy but also absorb energy.

As we grow up, this false belief keeps reaching us from everyone on a subtle as well as physical level, whom we meet and are close to, including our friends, siblings (brothers and sisters), spouse, etc. and slowly we start accepting this belief as being completely true and lead our lives according to it and even transmit the same to others. That is why it is extremely difficult to find a single person today who does not live according to this belief or does not bring it into their daily lives to some extent or the other.

A very common example of the above belief, which we all have gone through sometime or another, is when we are late by just a few minutes in coming back home from the office. On reaching home, we are asked many questions by our family members, perhaps our parents, spouse, or children, about where we have been and why we didn’t call, and also informed about many negative assumptions they had made during that time. Why? Because they had been worried about us.

We are normally surprised by the fact that they are worrying, because most of the time we are late because of a not-so-serious reason, but our family members explain that we were worrying for you because we care for you. But worrying is not caring. Worry is fear or anxiety, and care is love or concern; they are two opposite emotions that can never exist together at the same time.

In tomorrow’s message, we shall demonstrate how, on a subtle energy level, true love and concern are more beneficial than worry in coming out of negative situations, in which we find ourselves every now and then.