Fear -- What is it Really Anyway?

Let me inspire you to pick apart what causes you to fear! Maybe we should look at fear under a microscope... dissect it... see what it is made of so that we know what we are dealing with here... a sort of plague.

Finley says that the reason we all suffer boils down to one thing: something we thought belongs to us doesn't; persons, powers, praise or possessions. We think we do not have enough... there is always something we think we are lacking... something else that we NEED! In fact Finley suggests that the healing we need has nothing at all to do with adding anything to ourselves!

It is suggested that we are divided within.

What we don't want and also being unhappy with what we do have. These two opposites continue to battle within in us and cause us to experience life as something painful at worst, complacent at best. Self liberation Finley says is realizing that the real world is not what our thoughts and feelings would have us believe it is. He says "our soul task is to release ourselves from an unconscious relationship with a false self whose imagined conclusions -- about how to find lasting peace -- are the secret source of conflict on this planet".

We can learn to rise above whatever is in our way!

We must always remember that negative thoughts will drag us down... and if we let that first little thought take hold, the rest of our thoughts and feelings are sure to follow! Finely describes how a pilot of a plane can change altitude when there are obstacles in the way. How a change in altitude will carry us up and over what we fear. I have been trying this out in my own life for the past two days. When a negative thought enters my mind I say: I can go up and over that thought! If you try this you will be amazed at how many negative thoughts you have in any given hour. To recognize the negative thought and to change the course of your thought path is very liberating! We really do have control over what we think and thus how we feel. Feeling negativity is causing you to have fear in your life!

It takes work!

I'll say it again... IT TAKES WORK! Nothing worthwhile is ever really easy... this is your life we are talking about here! It takes a moment-to-moment realization of what we are thinking and how we are reacting to that with our emotions to begin to change our altitude. Notice when you have a negative thought; recognize it and then raise your altitude and go over it. Finely says we "pull up and away from that part of ourselves by withdrawing our consent to be confined by how it would define us".

I don't know about you... but I have had enough fear in my life to last me a lifetime and I am only 43 years old. I am ready to get past it. I am ready to make it a thing of the past. I am ready to make the feelings of fear history in my life!

Why don't you join me?!!!!!

Namaste

Fear, by Sara McLachlan 

Morning smiles
Like the face of a newborn child
Innocent unknowing
Winter’s end
Promises of a long lost friend
Speaks to me of comfort

But I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
Here in this lonely place
Tangled up in our embrace
There’s nothing I’d like
Better than to fall
But I fear I have nothing to give

Wind in time
Rapes the flower trembling on the vine
Nothing yields to shelter it
From above
They say temptation will destroy our love
The never ending hunger

But I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
Here in this lonely place
Tangled up in our embrace
There’s nothing I’d like
Better than to fall
But I fear
I have nothing to give
I have so much to lose
I have nothing to give
We have so much to lose...