Sometimes when we worry about a situation, it is a substitute for responsible action.

A passage from The Answer is You by Michael Bernard Beckwith:

Sometimes when we worry about a situation, it is a substitute for responsible action. We fool ourselves into thinking that if we are worrying, it means we are analyzing the situation until we get a sense of direction. Worry is not an empowering response. Worry is a rehearsal we conduct to prepare our reaction to what we fear might happen. Oh my god please don't let this happen! We desperately cry. But just in case. Toxic chemicals spill into our nervous system blocking our receptivity to the inner guidance and insights that would lead us out of what we're stuck in. 

In contrast, affirmative placeholder is a tap on your shoulder that says Hey now's the time to pull up that insight you had last week about how life is on your side supporting you, carrying you, cheering you on. Remember life is trustworthy because Spirit is trustworthy. and affirmative mindset expands our ability to see creative responses to our challenges. It enables us to take actions that result in the highest outcomes for all concerned.

This reminds me of two weeks ago, when I was flying a plane for the first time with my CFI (certified flight instructor), I was so nervous. Since we were flying out of Santa Monica, there were small mountains on the north west. There have been so many aviation accidents lately that I became worried my situational awareness was playing tricks on me. 

“Are we gonna hit that mountain?” I asked my CFI, a little panicked.

“No. The mountains are over there, we’re here. Don’t panic. If Luke’s engine caught fire and he was going down, you wouldn’t hear him screaming on the radio. You would hear him calmly say ‘Mayday Mayday.”

The moral of the story is never panic. Stress makes your brain unable to think properly and process information. What you’re stressing over can materialize when you’re handing over your mental reins to anxiety.

On the flip side, affirm to yourself that you are picking the lens of love, gratitude, and calm self-assurance today. 

Watch how everything works out for your best good. Things fall into place, you're creative, unbothered, radiant. But why isn't this a default for humanity?

Perhaps domestication has created fears and shames that are not yours, but these negative beliefs are suckling vitality through you. Negative beliefs will do anything to keep themselves alive. They distort reality and drain your energy.  Your mind is a logical system, therefore it will find all the evidence it needs to back up this negative belief. Beliefs are living energies, and just like us, they self-preserve. That's why you feel stuck. It's nothing more than a negative belief try to self-preserve through any means necessary; it just so happens to be using your fears, anxiety, and stress to do so.

It is up to you, an all powerful being, to say, 

"I choose not to act from a place of learned behaviors. I choose to slow down. All the generational curses die with me today. I choose to do nothing if it's not from a place of love, calmness, and self-assurance. I no longer care about how other's perceive me, because I know with the whole of my being, my greatest asset is being lovingly present in the now."

Try it for yourself, run a little experiment. What would happen if you chose to reframe all the typical negative beliefs you carry day to day by affirming to yourself that life always works out for you. Insert any negative belief you have been carrying, no matter how heavy, and see what happens when instead you choose to act from a place of love and possibility.