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Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast

Timber Hawkeye

Spirituality, Buddhism, Awareness, Calm, Society & Culture, Meditation, Mindful, Buddhist, Philosophy, Awake, Minimalist, Innerpeace, Selfhelp, Spiritual, Education, Aware, Mindfulness, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 4 February 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

A worry that comes up in your mind is like getting a phone call from an unknown number. When you don't have all the information, you can just hit the red button to make it go away. They will either leave a voicemail and you will deal with it later, or they will hang up. Either way, there is nothing to worry about.

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0:17.0	Welcome to the Buddhist Boot Camp Podcast. Our intention is to awaken, enlighten, enrich, and inspire a simple and uncomplicated life. Discover the benefits of mindful living with your host, Timber Hawkeye.
0:32.0	When I receive an email, I either reply to it right away if it requires a response, I immediately archive the message if it doesn't.
0:35.3	Thus keeps my inbox free of clutter which is also how I organize my thoughts.
0:39.6	It's an efficient filing system of sorts that keeps me from ever feeling overwhelmed or buried
0:44.4	by incoming messages or by intrusive thoughts. But every once in a while I get an email that requires
0:49.6	a response for me but I don't have all the information, so I can't reply to the message right away.
0:54.8	Ignoring the message is not an option, so I can't just delete or archive it, but I don't want it in my
0:59.7	inbox taunting me either.
1:01.7	That's when the newish feature from Google to Snoo's incoming messages
1:05.0	comes in really handy. I hit the Snoo's button and the message disappears from
1:09.2	my inbox until a chosen day in the future when I will be better able to respond. This snooze feature perfectly illustrates how I also deal with worries and concerns that come up in my mind.
1:20.0	Whenever I'm worried about something, I first determine whether I have all the information to address the concern right away, and then I either deal with it immediately, dismiss it altogether, or I snooze my worries until more information becomes available.
1:32.0	I mean, it's pointless for me to worry about it in that moment anyway, right?
1:36.0	So I give myself permission to worry about it later,
1:39.0	knowing full well I probably won't need to.
1:42.0	It's kind of like saying we will cross that bridge when we get there, but many of us worry about bridges that may or may not even exist.
1:49.0	Turns out we can just snooze our concerns until we find out. In my experience the pause between the impulse
1:54.8	to worry and actually worrying ends up eliminating most worries. I simply refuse to
1:59.8	react without having all the data, so I wait.
2:03.0	In my mind's eye, I visualize a redacted document
2:05.9	where key information has been crossed out.
2:08.4	There's no way to make sense of it
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