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-THE ISLAND LIFE-

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality,” Seneca tells us.

It’d be impressive if it wasn’t so painful. The way we’re able to imagine all the terrible things that might happen. The vivid scenarios we concoct in our head. The extensive conversations we practice, the arguments we get into with people we’ve never met.

Seneca talked about how our imaginations are almost more powerful than reality—real enough that they may well cause us more suffering than actual life. And he who suffers before is necessary, he adds, suffers more than necessary (you can carry this quote around with our new Anxiety Coin, by the way). In a recent interview, the singer Jewel talked about realizing that this catastrophizing in her head, this anxiety and fear, what it really was was a bad use of creativity. She was using her considerable imagination and artistic skill not to make art…but to torture herself.

We all do this. Instead of using our minds to solve problems, we set it to work on problems that don’t exist. Instead of using it to move forward, we use it to look backward, pouring over what already happened. Instead of using it to feel good, we use it to torture ourselves. How crazy is that? And how counterproductive?

You have been given an incredibly powerful too—this brain and imagination of yours. But like a gun or a knife, it can just as easily harm the user as it can protect or serve them. We have to train and discipline ourselves, we have to direct these resources properly. We have to channel our creativity not into fear and anxiety, but into purpose and progress.

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