Beating Fear

There is plenty in this world to feel fearful about. Businesses shuttered due to a Pandemic. People without pay checks to buy groceries and stay afloat in a diminishing economy. Bankruptcies on homes and offices. It is not pretty. Many people suffering from depression, worry, and guilt. They feel like they have been deserted, abandoned, and nobody cares, no one is listening. They feel people are ignoring their feelings and calls for help.

However, when people ignore our feelings, and calls for help usually it is because there is nothing they can do to change our situation. They also feel helpless, and unable to cope. They desire to help but don’t know how. Others can not eat for us, nor can they think for us. Negative thought patterns can be debilitating, but they can be ameliorated with positive thought patterns, but only if one considers that possibility.

Negative feelings flow from negative thoughts and beliefs. Behind these beliefs and thoughts are fear. All kinds of fear, and fear is impulsive. Fear is self-generated. There is no real reason for anyone to hold fearful thoughts about themselves and/or life.

Fear:
“A strong feeling one gets when one anticipates harm or pain.”
“Something that caused such an emotion.”

Our past is history, and our future remains unknown. The only place we can really live is in the present. By concentrating our efforts on tasks of the day we can let-go of past and future fears. I know this is a lot easier said than done, but happier lives have to begin somewhere.

A big chunk of fear comes from misinformation. Not all our most sacred beliefs are truth. Much of what we believe came from others, and we have never checked to see if they knew what they were talking about.

Our human institutions: Religion, Politics, Schools, Governments, Media, Social Internets, etc., are so full of contradictions and misinformation one should always be skeptical until research can provide truth.

What we believe about ourselves and our world creates our future realities. Yes, that is to say we create our futures through free will choices. Some people believe the world is flat; that the Holocaust never happened; and/or the current Pandemic is a big hoax. You don’t have to be that wrong for your beliefs to cause you fear. Thinking fearful events await at death, thinking you are not worthy, astute, or personable enough to succeed can bring fear and pain into your life. You don’t need to live with this kind of fear any longer. You don’t need to live with any kind of fear.

Emmanuel says it better:

Your entire human experience
is predicated on your viewpoint.
Your viewpoint is predicated
on your inner belief system
and that is predicated on
how much you believe in fear
and how much you believe in love.

Solutions:

This physical world has a definite reason and meaning for being. It is a classroom for us humans to gain understanding of ourselves through learning to balance our thoughts. Here we are confronted with the best and the worst of life in a single day. We make choices to trust and think positive or to distrust and think negative. The whole process is a grand illusion for training purposes.

There is a large amount of planning for each of us. Nothing happens by accident or randomness. The courses are not designed to be easy. They will not be fair or even make sense at times. We come here by choice to gain self-knowledge and grow spiritually.

If you want to grow spiritually, then you must address your fears and let them go. This is done by forgiving yourself and others, while building your love for self and others. Affirmations can be a help if done routinely. Many have an aversion to forgiving those that do wrong to them and others. But holding on to grudges and hate only hurt yourself.

Emmanuel said it the best:

Your intuitive heart is the doorway
that stands between the two worlds.
In your willingness to go against
all reason, all defenses, all habits,
all patterns, all superstitions,
and many teachings, to say,
“I will love,”
you walk into the Light.
You honor the illusion
but you will never
become lost in it.

It does not matter if you believe in God, or not. It does not matter if you are spiritual, or not, What you believe is irrelevant to learning to love. Teaching yourself to love that which seems unlovable will change your perspective of life. It will give you hope, confidence, and the ability to live successfully. Unconditional Love never fails to inspire.

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New Years 2010

Happy New Year to everyone. I wish happiness and success to everyone in the coming year. I don’t do New Year resolutions because I usually break them the first week in the year. I do have goals I try to achieve on an on-going basis. Things like “don’t jump to conclusions,” “read the instuctions first,” “finish the job,” “learn to love the seemingly unloveable,” “become more knowledgable about life,” “encourage others,” and “don’t judge others.” These are a hefty lot of goals in themselves.

But most of all just be yourself. Find out who you really are, and you will have all the self-confidence you need to fulfill your goals. Look within for the real spiritual self. The real you is, powerful, confident, honest, full of love and compassion for others. That is who you are, a beautiful spiritual creation, eternal, caring, and free to choose what you will in the coming year. Your future is your creation. Choose thoughtfully, live thoughtfully, and be at peace with yourself and the world this year and forever.

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Think of Self-Confidence

Self-Confidence.

Faith in oneself and in one’s powers and abilities.

People usually build Self-Confidence through experience. The more you practice the piano, the more confident you become in playing it. But some things in life can’t be practiced before undertaken. So confidence becomes faith. Faith in yourself, that you can do what you know, and learn to do, what you don’t know.

Every day you are confronted with opportunities to do new and different things. Don’t be afraid you will fail, because you probably will the first time. Failure is learning to succeed. Keep trying. Keep embracing change in your life and your confidence will grow and grow.

First a leap of faith, then work, learn, and understand your way to the mastery of self-confidence.

“Self-confidence is two-thirds of success.”

Anonymous (Proverb)

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