Your mind can make you a slave.

I just received a call from a close friend, and she told me she was a little stressed out about her application. I told her not to think too much of it because thing too much about it cannot improve her odds of success with the application.

She said maybe it could, because she told me that should COULD be doing something about it.

Maybe so, but the general guideline from what I learnt from Eckhart Tolle's Books, is that your mind can make you a slave.

Your mind can think a lot about the future. It will try to think about all the possibilities of what will happen about the future. Well, this does't really help you except give you more stress.

Alot of people don't know what to do about this stress, they can be a slave to their mind, because their mind is creating this unnecessary stress.

You are the master of your mind, and your mind is only a tool for you. You can stop your mind from creating stress by becoming aware of is desire to think, and think and try to put you in the future.

As you can't do anything about the future, you could feel a little helpless.

As Eckhart has always said, you should become aware of "now" instead of thinking too much about the future.