Por Patanga Cordeiro
Ansiedade é inevitável? Nenhum ser humano consegue escapar da experiência de ter ansiedade. Mas, nos tempos de hoje, Sri Chinmoy menciona como a ansiedade é auto-imposta. No entanto, é também necessário que ela venha à tona primeiro, para depois poder ser transformada.
Como superar a ansiedade? É possível ignorar a ansiedade temporariamente, convencendo a mente de que a ansiedade não existe. Mas, para uma solução verdadeira, ela deve ser iluminada pela Luz. Quando chega a hora certa, essa Luz vêm à tona, do coração-aspiração, da alma-coragem, e transforma a ansiedade.
Para diminuir a ansiedade, devemos invocar a tranquilidade do infinito, a paz interior, o Senhor, a estar dentro dessa condição. Olhemos para dentro e além, sem chafurdar na ansiedade. Não permitamos que a ansiedade permaneça na mente. Se já temos problemas hoje, de que adianta pensar nos de amanhã? Pense no Senhor, e não nas preocupações.
Meditação e ansiedade: Uma vida de meditação repleta de alma pode minimizar a pressão-ansiedade e transformá-la em deleite.
A ansiedade é auto-imposta. Não devemos culpar Deus por ela. A mente o principal agente que indulge na ansiedade. O vital que gosta de desafiar também indulge em ansiedade.
Para aumentar nossa ansiedade, diversos inimigos nos rondam: a insinceridade, o prazer e a falta de auto-estima.
Para superar a ansiedade, diversas ferramentas nos auxiliam: o sorriso, a fé e a entrega.
Recomendo a leitura dos textos abaixo, em sua versão completa.
Resumo baseado na consulta da obra de Sri Chinmoy. Textos consultados:
11186
Poor mind!
It suffers from
Unproductive worries and anxieties.
Yet it will not welcome or invoke
Infinity’s tranquillity,
For unconsciously it cherishes
The powerful blows of anxiety and worry.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 112, Agni Press, 1987
- When I pray
When I pray,
I tell my Lord
To keep me from teeming
Worries and anxieties.
When I meditate,
I tell my Lord
To be in my teeming
Worries and anxieties.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 23, Agni Press, 1982
Question: Is the way to get rid of anxiety to ignore it?
Sri Chinmoy: You can get rid of anxiety for a short time by ignoring it, but if you want to get rid of it permanently, then you have to bring light into it. In the beginning, if you are weak, then ignore it. If you can convince your mind that anxiety does not exist, then you get temporary relief. If even for one day you are freed from anxiety, then you have accomplished something. By ignoring it you can keep it away for a few days, a few weeks or a few months, but you cannot indefinitely ignore it. The anxiety still exists and it will come back.
But in the meantime, while it is away, you may create or develop or acquire or achieve light. Then, if you have brought light into your system, when anxiety comes you can put light into it. At that time, anxiety is transformed and then it no longer exists. In this way it will not bother you again.
If you do not have enough light or illumining power inside you, then the next best thing is to ignore anxiety. But unless and until you have illumined anxiety, there can be no abiding satisfaction. In the beginning you ignore it and wait for God’s capacity to develop in you, which is Light. Then, when the hour comes, you must enter into anxiety itself with your soul’s light. But if you have this capacity right from the beginning, why do you have to ignore your anxiety? Everything in God’s creation needs God’s attention for its perfection. Anxiety is not a good quality; it has to be perfected. Since you have the capacity, pay attention to it and perfect it.
Sri Chinmoy, Flame-Waves, part 7, Agni Press, 1976
52.
It is the height of stupidity to attempt to dissemble fear, doubt, anxiety and frustration in the spiritual life. Fear, doubt, anxiety and frustration must be brought to the fore before they can be transformed.
Sri Chinmoy, United Nations Meditation-Flowers and To-morrow’s Noon, Agni Press, 1978
- The company of anxiety
Anxiety comes
Because you do not look within.
Anxiety remains
Because you do not look forward.
Anxiety will always last
Because you secretly enjoy
The company of anxiety.
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 32, Agni Press, 1982
11841
God does not want us to store
Any anxieties,
Even past anxieties,
In our overcrowded mind-rooms.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 119, Agni Press, 1988
30035
Today’s worries and anxieties
Are destroying my joy.
Alas, why do I think
Of future anxieties and worries?
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 31, Agni Press, 2003
Translation
Lord, if I think of You
I can have no worries and anxieties.
By thinking of my own worries and anxieties,
I shall never be able to free myself from them.
I know this undeniable fact,
Yet helplessly or deliberately I see myself
In the grip of worries and anxieties.
Sri Chinmoy, Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 3, Aum Press, 1976
7168
If you have a life of anxiety,
Then you desperately need
A life of meditation.
Your meditation-life
Will transform your anxiety-life
Into God’s God-manifested Delight.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 72, Agni Press, 1984
38073
I must throw away
My anxiety-worry-mind.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 39, Agni Press, 2004
4783
My anxiety-mind
Is
My self-imposed torture.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 5, Agni Press, 1998
21710
Smile, smile, smile!
Your anxiety-mind
Shall disappear.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
- Two powerful enemies
I have two powerful
And shameless enemies:
Anxiety and impurity.
To anxiety I say:
“I shall not think of you
Any more.”
To impurity I say:
“I shall not allow you
To think of me
Any more.”
Sri Chinmoy, Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 26, Agni Press, 1982
2037
No human heart
Can forever escape
Ruthless anxiety-tortures.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 3, Agni Press, 1998
19259
To believe
Is to relieve oneself
From mind-anxieties.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 20, Agni Press, 2001
10
The mind
Is the reservoir
Of worries and anxieties.
Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 47, Agni Press, 2006
20156
The unaspiring mind
Unconsciously but sleeplessly
Produces
Anxiety-worry-clouds.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 202, Agni Press, 1994
Inseparable — anxiety and attachment.
Shun both, all yours enlightenment.
From the book My God-Hunger-Cry
13177
Worries and anxieties together
Fight against faith,
But eventually faith wins.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 14, Agni Press, 1999
76
Only a rank fool
Can indulge
In future phantom worries
And anxieties.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 1, Agni Press, 1998
937
You must give up
Once and for all
Your mind’s anxiety-indulgence!
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 1, Agni Press, 1998
47605
Be not insincere —
You will be prone to fearful anxieties
And worries.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 48, Agni Press, 2007
7816
How often we blame God
For our self-imposed
Worries and anxieties.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 8, Agni Press, 1998
40726
My inner peace
Can easily devour
My outer anxieties,
Worries and imperfections.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 41, Agni Press, 2004
33162
I must try
To disentangle myself
From all earthly worries
And anxieties.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 34, Agni Press, 2003
8048
My aspiration-heart-river
Is taking away
All my worries and anxieties.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 9, Agni Press, 1998
21571
A life without anxieties
Is the life of
A God-surrender-lover.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 22, Agni Press, 2001
25438
The loss of self-esteem
Is the cause
Of all my anxieties.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 26, Agni Press, 2002
13670
The challenging vital often suffers
From anxiety, worry, doubt, hesitation
And despair.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 14, Agni Press, 1999
36
Each seeker must bury
His anxieties and worries
In his sterling faith.
Sri Chinmoy, My Christmas-New Year-Vacation Aspiration-Prayers, part 47, Agni Press, 2006
July 29
Pleasure without anxiety is impossible.
Joy without fulfilment is impossible.
Sri Chinmoy, Flame-Goal. Daily meditations, Sri Chinmoy Centre, Montreal, 1973
13177
Worries and anxieties together
Fight against faith,
But eventually faith wins.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 14, Agni Press, 1999
1505
The twentieth century is undoubtedly
An age of self-imposed worries
And anxieties.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 2, Agni Press, 1998
18831
To renounce worries and anxieties
Forever,
We must constantly announce
God’s supreme Victory.
Sri Chinmoy, Seventy-Seven Thousand Service-Trees, part 19, Agni Press, 2000
16326
Summon your soul-courage!
It will wrestle
Anxiety, doubt and impurity
Into submission.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 164, Agni Press, 1991
14784
A soulful meditation
Does have the capacity
To minimise the mind’s
Anxiety-pressure.
Sri Chinmoy, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, part 148, Agni Press, 1991