JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI

Many people are uncertain about their behaviour and what action they should be taking at any given moment.

This uncertainty manifests in fear, stress, and anxiety.

Some Zen Ideas on handling uncertainty:

1. Keep the big picture in mind.
2. Take one action at a time.

• Odour molecules that move through the air up your nostrils will bind to special smell receptors on the surface of nerve cells.
• The nerve cells send a signal to the brain's olfactory bulb, that is behind the bridge of the nose.
• People have about 400 different smell recepto...

Anxiety (as opposed to fear) is always caused by uncertainty - the uncertainty of ultimately, by the forecasts we make, but in which we have little to no confidence.

Forecasts with high confidence free you to respond, adjust, feel sadness, accept, prepare, or to do whateve...