
At one time or another, we all have experienced fear - from low-grade anxiety to terror. Fear can inhibit, paralyze, and profoundly affect the quality of our lives. Though fear can assist in helping us identify our desires and needs, it can prove debilitating unless we are able to release it. Fear prevents us from fully being alive and living our dreams. To live in fear is to live without faith.
I have been teaching and practicing what I call 'an empowerment meditation'. We ask to be given light, love, peace and healing power. Light is, of course, enlightenment, wisdom, instinct, intuition and revelation. Love is not 'please love me, I'm feeling miserable and lonely', but rather, 'please fill me with love, so that I can create with love, instead of fear'. Peace is the perfect peace that 'passeth all understanding'. It is that peace in which there is absolutely no room for fear.
I had often wondered if I had ever reached that peace. It wasn't until the doctors in Chicago diagnosed me several years ago with
Lupus, and all the tests and sickness I've endured since then .... that I realized that my mind did not shift gear, not even one cog. I did feel an overwhelming gratitude for this opportunity to show, with irrefutable proof, that the Spirit of God which is within all of us, when directed skillfully by the mind, triumphs over all. The physical and the non-physical. I pray that I am skilful enough.
When I have totally eradicated this illness from myself, I hope to start a school for the self-treatment of chronic illness, using proper, chemical free nutrition and mind-power.
So that I should have a mind free to concentrate on healing, I have made my funeral arrangements. This way, I have avoided having others worry about what should be done and I no longer have to think of such things. Death is such a beautiful thing. It is like taking off a straight-jacket and being liberated. It is only those who distrust and fear the Source of all life, consciousness and energy, who are frightened of the inevitable. The only sin in all the omniverse is ignorance. And what suffering it causes.
I choose to live without fear of life, death or love ....
What if ...
- Your feelings lie to you?
- Most of your thoughts and feelings come from fear?
- Most of your decisions are based on fear!
Being Fearless isn't about jumping out of planes, it's about jumping into life!- Freedom from fear.
- Freedom from disappointment.
- Freedom from not enough.
Most people, no matter how confident they appear to be, often harbor paralyzing fears that overshadow their ability to live fearlessly. These fears are always whispering skeptical objections and feeding you doubts about anything that might shake up the status quo:
- Do you really think you should do that?
- Are you ready for a big step like this?
- Why don't you get somebody else's opinion?
- Are you sure you're not getting in over your head?
- What will people say?
Living without fear, takes you out of the lie and into the truth of your own unique magnificence. Stop beating yourself up and become more accountable; this will help build on your objective: Ultimate Integrity. Mastering fear does not imply you will never experience fear again. But rather, you win knowing what actions to take to move you from Fear at will, to Freedom.
Your Fear Is As Smart As YouWhether you know it or not, fear has developed your likes and dislikes, picked your friends, and raised your children. Learn how to recognize when fear is running your life and take steps to set yourself free.
Fearless Intentions: What were you expecting?Expectations breed fear, disappointment and discontent. They are silent contracts that focus your attention on the outcome instead of the process with little satisfaction. turn expectations into intentions freeing you to live your life on purpose, with purpose and get results that matter.
Excuses Disempower YouExcuses ... excuse you from fulfilling your potential. They take away any sense of personal responsibility, accountability, or power, giving you permission to ignore your own values, beliefs, and commitments. Forgiveness is a process and we use it to accept, release and make peace with the people and circumstances that may have been keeping you up at night.
Complaining Advertises Your FearsComplaining advertises your fears while keeping you stuck in the complaint. Increase your ability to see opportunities and possibilities by transforming your complaints into gratitude and acknowledgements.
It's often said that love is the only thing that is true and real and that love is all we need to focus on if what we desire is to heal any thing ... every thing. What is the opposite of love? Most people would instantly say "hate." But what is the foundation for hate? Fear. Fear is the foundation for all things that are not love. Fear is the opposite of love.
One thing that has been pointed out to me during my continued spiritual quest for understanding is that when one loves, one expects. Giving love seems to have a purely human need to receive something in return. Expectations. What is that we ultimately have when we have expectations? Fear. And fear is the opposite of love.
When we have expectations we are living with limitations. We are living in fear. We are saying ... there is only so much that I can give. I am limited. I need to receive in order to give. In addition we are saying ... if I do not receive, what I am giving has no value to the one who is receiving. What is the foundation for feeling that something you give has no value? Fear. Fear that you are not valuable, not worthy, not accepted, not loved in return or loved and recognized for what you are doing or giving. Another way of putting it ... I am giving but not receiving, therefore the Universe is limited and I must hang on to what I have for I may run out of energy (or time, or love, or whatever the case may be). In addition we are saying ... I am not receiving love therefore I will not give love. The basis for this comment, again, is fear.
How many judgments do we make before we offer love? How many expectations do we have once we offer love? Perhaps we don't expect anything from the person or thing directly, but do we expect something from the Universe? Some sign of "reward" for having thoughts of love and compassion and acceptance?
But love is a state of BE-ING. Love is a state of pure acceptance. No judgment, no expectation. Love is a state of pure acceptance. It can't be said too many times or in too many different ways. Many of us understand the concept perfectly. But most of us also continue to seek the understanding beneath the words and the concept. We are, after all, human and so it is that situations and events can shift our focus and change our state of being pure love. We can become upset, angry, confused, resentful, frustrated, and any number of other things. In other words, we give the true state of our be-ing away to the "reality" that is playing around us. Why is this case? And, more importantly, how do we learn to be unaffected by what happens to us and around us?
It seems to be a great and burdensome task to ask of ourselves.. To become pure love. To do so would be to live without judgment of things such as murder, abuse, poverty, and all of the other things we, as humans, think of as negative and bad. The argument against loving ALL things that humans create within their reality is strong and could be never-ending. But continuing the argument leaves us without the option to create new thought processes. If we continue to argue for the right to oppose the things we have labeled as "wrong," we continue to close the door on the answer to how we might be able, within this consensual reality, to put all things into Divine Alignment and restore order within what appears to be chaos.
Is it a judgment to believe that we must set things "right?' Or is it simply a matter of observation that all things and all people are an aspect of God and therefore should act and be treated accordingly? Is it possible that, even after all things return to the state of being divinely aligned with the original plan of God/Creator, such things as murder, abuse, poverty, and such things would still exist? Yes, it's quite possible. Why? Due to the fact that we, as scholars who are studying the process of Creation, must experience ALL things.
This is one of the greatest struggles that we, as aspiring Masters, have. To accept that all things in existence are presentations of God/Creation. One of the reasons, other than our sincere compassion and desire to see joy lived by all creatures, is that we believe all things should be treated with honor and respect and the recognition that all things are an aspect of God. Would we, if we saw a person as an aspect of God, slap, scream at, or other abuse that person? Probably not.
How then do we achieve a place of pure acceptance of the things that appear to be out of the realm of what God would want for us, for those who live within this reality? By realizing that, though there are things that do not seem "perfect" and in Divine Alignment, the events that transpire around us are "tools" that we create, as a society, in order to show ourselves and others ALL sides of existence. We must, as aspiring Masters, understand the cause and effect of all things within existence. We must, as aspiring Masters, understand balance, light vs. dark, positive vs. negative, and all other polarities that exist within the realm of existence.
Does it then become simply a matter of choosing the reality you wish to live? Absolutely.
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MY AFFIRMATION:"This is a magnificent universe. The universe is bring all good things to me. The universe is conspiring for me in all things. The universe is supporting me in everything I do. The universe meets all my needs immediately."MY MISSION STATEMENT: I want to be living in a beautiful home with children. Having enough money to be worried free. I am deeply worthy of being well loved and I deserve to be well loved. I am able to handle anything that comes my way. Security is not in having things, but in handling things. I am enough. I love myself. I am very lucky. The love I seek is the love that is in within myself. I am living in the place where I belong with people I love and doing the right work on purpose. Thank you God for all my blessing.Gratitude: I am grateful for my health. I am grateful for my family. I a grateful for my love. I am grateful for my job. I am grateful that I am living in New York City. I am grateful for my car and my apartment. I am truly blessI am creating a successful life in a easy and relaxed manner in a healthy and positive way._____________________