Full video: Reducing overthinking and anxiety || Acharya Prashant, with IIT Bombay (2020)
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00:00There is a subtle pleasure in worrying.
00:03The opposite of this self-centered worry is immersion in action.
00:09Immerse yourself in the right action, and then where is the space and the time to worry?
00:14Surely you are stealing time away from work so that you can indulge in worries and anxieties
00:21and fancies of all kinds.
00:23If the future, as per your imagination, is really threatening to be terrible, then that's
00:29all the more incentive for you to immerse yourself in the right action right now.
00:36Or would you squat and brood?
00:37Four hours, they are coming.
00:39You know what they'll do?
00:40They'll rape.
00:41They'll plunder.
00:42They are coming.
00:43Is that what you'll do?
00:44If the threat is indeed real, then work.
00:45And if the threat is not real, then slap yourself and find some work.
00:49What's the point in getting trapped in circular thought?