The World Gets Better When You Do.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent a lot of my life believing that worry was some kind of cosmic contribution.

As if lying awake at night thinking about melting ice caps and stressed-out sea turtles was somehow helping them. 

Spoiler alert: it wasn’t.

But for years, I genuinely thought that all that energy that I was burning worrying was doing something…that it had to be doing something. 

Maybe you can relate?

Here’s the thing I eventually learned - mostly the hard way:

We cannot worry the world into healing. In fact… Worry quietly drains the very power we need to make anything better.

I know. Annoying, right?

The thing is, worry feels productive. 

Our brains are such tricksters. 

When we worry, the same neural pathways that handle planning and problem-solving light up like a Christmas tree. So it feels like we’re taking action.

But we’re not. Not even a little.

Worrying without action is like spinning your wheels in mud: lots of noise, zero movement, and now you’re covered in emotional sludge.

And worst of all? Chronic worry fills our bodies with stress chemicals that make us:

• less intuitive

• less creative

• less compassionate

• more inflamed

• and generally, less pleasant to be around (pretty sure my husband would back me up on this one!)

The world doesn’t need more anxious people scrolling on their phones. It needs people who can stay steady, even when things feel wobbly.

Worry Shrinks Us

Here’s something I still remind myself of daily:

Worry doesn’t mean I care more. It means I’m losing myself in the noise.

When worry becomes our dominant setting, we get smaller. We lose perspective. We lose energy. We lose access to all the inner brilliance we need in order to respond to life with clarity instead of panic.

And here’s the thing. 

Most of what we worry about?

Completely outside our control.

Which means we’ve spent all that mental energy on absolutely nothing - like giving a TED Talk in our heads that no one asked for.

So Where Is Our Power?

Our power lives in clarity.

In calmness.

In those little pockets of stillness where we remember who we are and what actually matters.

This doesn’t mean we ignore the world’s challenges. It means we approach them with a regulated nervous system and a brain that isn’t running around with its hair on fire.

When we take care of our inner world - our thoughts, our patterns, the stories we’ve carried for decades - we’re better equipped to tend to our outer world. 

With compassion. With creativity. With our sanity intact.

And honestly? A calm mind is contagious.

A grounded person can shift the whole tone of a room without saying a word.

 That, my friend, is real power.

Let’s Heal the World the Only Way That Actually Works

One clear mind at a time. One rewired worry-habit at a time. One person choosing peace over panic, and presence over paralysis.

You don’t have to fix everything “out there.”Just start with what’s happening between your ears.

(Trust me, that’s where the magic is.)

If you’d like help untangling old patterns, soothing your nervous system, and learning simple, effective neuroplasticity techniques that actually work, reach out at pattinorris.com.

Let’s make the world better starting with you - calmer, lighter, steadier you.

 I can’t wait to help you get there.