worry jar

So I’ve been pretty damn stressed these past few months, as some of my rants have suggested. Anyway, I was getting ready for bed and I was fretting about like 10 different major worrisome things. My mind was racing and I thought I’d try to meditate to try to calm down. It wasn’t really working and then all of a sudden it dawned on me to let someone else take care of all my worries for me! To give them up to the universe so I don’t have to do it alone. And so I made a worry jar! Why the F not!

So I ran down stairs, grabbed a mason jar, taped a note to the universe on it, and then wrote out all my stresses on scraps of paper and then put it in another room – out of sight, out of mind.

Swear to god – it worked.

Almost everything I was wrote down, got resolved in the past two days. Even got a call about my major stress the very next morning – call woke me up and I got some good news!  Then the rest got knocked down throughout the day. There are still a few outstanding worries, but I’m sure they are being taken care of, I just don’t know about it yet.

I did this a while back too. About 5 years ago I had a worry jar. It was so cool to go back years later and read them – to realize how ridiculous some of my stresses were. Things I was just sick over meant absolutely nothing now.

Since it works so well on my stresses, I think I’ll also make a Wish Jar too. Again, why the F not!