One of humanity's biggest fears is losing what we have. It is healthy when fear of loss helps us take steps to protect what we have worked hard to attain, but it is unhealthy to continue to fear something we can do nothing about. We need to remember that focusing our energy on fear can actually create what scares us, and holding tightly to what we have keeps us from participating in the universal flow of abundance and instead creates stagnation. Since we can only really control our thoughts and our responses, gaining proper perspective may be key to conquering such fears.
The letters of the word "fear" can be used to stand for "False Evidence Appearing Real." Fears of being separated from something or someone we feel we need for our security or happiness comes from a delusion-a distorted way of understanding ourselves and the world around us. When we understand that possessions are only representations of the energy at work in our lives, we can shift our attention to the right and proper place. We can stop fearing loss of money or success because when we understand how it is created, we can always create more. We can stop fearing loss of possessions when we realize that they are not the source of our joy or well-being but only icing on our cakes. And when we understand the energy of love, we need not hold anyone too close for fear of losing them for we know that love does not diminish when it is given or shared but expands beyond boundaries of time or space.
By focusing our light on our fears, they are revealed as mere shadows that disappear in the presence of mind and spirit. We can choose instead to direct our thoughts and creative power toward things of true value-love, abundance, peace, passion, and joy. These are energies that are always available to us when we place ourselves confidently in the universal flow of abundance.
Think of how much energy is lost in fear of something that only Goddess knows the outcome of, and how it can be redirected into something positive. Wren
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"Never argue with an idiot... They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience..."
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but feeling the fear and doing the thing anyway."
Can't remember who I have misquoted here - but I always liked it. If I spend too much time trying to suppress fear, I can end up still not doing what I wanted to do or had to do. So I just decide to do something or make a change and if I am afraid, I just ask God for COURAGE, not the removal of fear. And I feel great when I get through whatever it was I was scared of.
When my daughter was diagnosed with Leukemia at the age of three, trying to remove the fear would have been impossible. Absolutely impossible. Instead I prayed for strength and courage. And I got those two things - well, enough of them to not fall apart entirely and instead get on and see her through it.
