you may relax, be mindful and go with the flow

​…and people get terribly anxious when their basic view of how you should play the harp of life is not holding up. And, therefore, under such circumstances, we have to adjust our consciousness and reset and find, perhaps, a new way of plucking the strings or of structuring the world. But in order to do that, we have to pass through an intermediate state in which we learn to experience the vibrations without putting values on them - experiencing them without describing them, naming them or trying to fit them into some system of concepts: good and bad, high-class and low-class, refined or crude, or whatever, healthy or sick. We have to take right off all this thing and learn to have what in Zen is called, Mushin, meaning no-mind. That means not no consciousness but no conceptions, no notions, no fixed ideas, no one-sided view of things. It’s really easy to do that but everybody wants to try and make it difficult. People are compulsively complicated...

- Alan Watts, British and American writer, speaker, and interpreter of Buddhist, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a Western audience, from his seminar called, "Beyond Good and Bad: Seeing Reality As It Is"