The Power of Unattached Action

One may go through extreme emotions for some actions undertaken in life. There is a significant anxiety before an event happens and an equally significant anxiety post the action. This happens in many aspects of our personal or professional lives.

Why do we go through these heightened emotions? We assume a higher level of responsibility for things going wrong. The responsibility may be exaggerated in our thinking. Fact may be of much lower impact than the imagination of the mind. This falsely inflated sense of responsibility causes significant grief.

Why do we feel a higher sense of responsibility? It's because of our false notion that we can control / influence events in our lives. This is called a sense of "doership". The higher the sense of doership, the higher the emotional responses to events.

If we realize that there is a natural flow of events or life itself and we are just players in it, the sense of doership and the consequent grief reduces significantly. If we act unattached in all phases of our life, our grief is certain to be minimized.