I’m going to lose it.

William Michael Forbes




Don’t stop fear in its tracks...just don’t follow its tracks. wmf

A Well Known Fact: Emotional energy effects matter as immediately as walking.

When an animal is faced with a new situation, even something like an unfamiliar sound, they respond in one of two ways, preparation for fight or flight. Our human bodies are pretty much like an animal’s body in that it has instinctual consciousness built right into it. This instinctual consciousness works in the exact same manner as the animals with the exception that we can override our physical instincts with a process of consciousness called reason. Unfortunately only a small percentage of people in the world have developed their reason sufficiently to make intelligent choices, which is the primary cause of war, greed, personal conflict, relationship challenges, drug addiction, alcoholism and a host of other problems plaguing humanity at a time when we have such great potential to be a love based species. What can we do to change this? We can learn to think outside of how we’ve been taught to think.

Today’s lesson on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less is an opportunity to begin learning to face some of our basic fears within ourselves...which is where our behaviour comes from ultimately. On this note, pick one area of your life where you have a fear i.e. you may be afraid of being in debt, you may be afraid of being alone for the rest of your life, you may be afraid you won’t get the promotion, you may be afraid of failing or doing a presentation or going to an audition. Pick one of your fears for one minute each hour, and feel the fear...watch it as if you are watching someone else being afraid...notice how your body is responding to the fear...and breathe slowly in and fill your lungs letting out all the tension as you exhale...surround the fear with your awareness and imagine that it is a child you can give love and comfort to for about thirty continuous seconds...and after thirty seconds, notice any changes in the fear...and for the remainder of the minute just gently think or say to the part that was afraid...”Thank you, I Love You.” ‘Thank you I Love You.” Then notice how you feel afterwards and...


Have a great day!

William

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