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A great deal of
attention has been made in the concept of dealing with fear.
The number of books, workshops and meditations that
drive from the concept that fear is bad and should be avoided,
ignored or minimized are numerous. I can certainly understand the desire for this approach.
After all, fear certainly doesn’t feel good.
Fear is uncomfortable on the low end of expression and
completely overwhelming at it’s highest.
Living life without fear is certainly an admirable
idea.
And
it’s completely mistaken.
Because fear is
natural. Fear is
supposed to be. And
it can be something very, very positive in your life. Will your life be hopeful and filled with all you
desire? Or will your life continue to be controlled and held back by
your fears, a life experienced in frustration?
Are you willing to
let go of the judgment and frustration and comparing? Willing
to let go of the struggle, the fight and the exasperation?
Are you willing to
think that quite possibly you’re ok just as you are?
Can you even imagine how brilliant and capable and
worthy you are? Your
life is not about having to prove anything to anyone.
Or prove anything to yourself for that matter.
But it is very much about being with yourself, just as
you are.
So are you going
to stop fighting and struggling over your fears and
finally learn to accept that you experience fear, and with
that understanding now do something truly heroic?
Are
you willing to embrace your fears?
Can you imagine
what changes could occur in your life if you shifted all the
energy and attention you currently spend on the struggle,
avoidance and fighting of your fears, and instead direct all
that energy toward actual life expanding actions? What
would your life look like?
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