William Michael Forbes
The birth of dreams begins with the death of fear wmf
A Well Known Fact: Fear can threaten our physical, mental and emotional well being and wreak havoc on our lives, however when it is exposed to the light of reason, directed by love, it is as a cube of ice exposed to intense heat and it dissolves.
There are fears that are natural fears, like reacting to a sudden sound, or a physical event occurs that threatens our body in some way. There are emotional fears that come from imagining or thinking thoughts that are fear inducing, there are fears of failure, fears of success, fears of losing, fears of being alone…whatever it is we fear will like the time on a clock pass away. There are psychological conditions that appear to cause fear, panic and terror in the lives of many, negative cyclical thinking that has become so automatic that the original cause to the fear is lost to the awareness and all that is left is the ongoing simmering emotional volcano that the forgotten thinking drives. Psychology and psychiatry alike seek to ameliorate mental and emotional conditions through a wide array of tools, techniques, drugs and therapies in order to restore balance to the awareness of the individual. These therapies have proven helpful to many and also fruitless in the results for others. What could be missing from modern mental sciences that could improve its efforts towards the evolution of individuals past certain emotional roadblocks? The answer, I believe, is LOVE.
Love is a vibration that can be communicated without words…it is a feeling that makes us feel valuable, whole, complete and purposeful. Love is a feeling that moves us beyond judgement into appreciation, understanding, patience, compassion and acts that uplift, support and empower others to grow and become all that they can be. When we experience love within ourselves, it lets our reasoning faculty function at a level beyond Ego into an intuitive state of knowing, without necessarily knowing how. Love lets us see and know truth as it relates directly to our experience of life and all of us know this innate feeling in varying degrees; one might say that the dance between the states of love and fear are what give humans the vast spectrum of diversity that appears as our own individuality.
There are some teachings that say that love is life…that love is the very essence that enables our hearts to beat, our food to digest and our solar system to spin. Some schools of thought suggest that without awareness of the pulls and pushes of fear and love individuality cannot grow or evolve beyond the state of instinctual behaviour and that reason could not flourish without the awareness of these seemingly opposite states. I though today would be a good day to experiment with love and fear, which brings us to today’s activity on How to be happy in fifteen minutes or less.
For two minutes over the next eight hours think of one fear that you have and how that fear exists in your life right now. Then write down an example of what you could say, think and do to experience the opposite. For example, I might have the fear that I’m going to fail at a writing today’s blog and it won’t be posted…I write down that fear and then opposite to that I would write, I’m going complete my blog successfully and easily by writing it now and posting it immediately. Once you’ve written the opposite to the fear…take some action no matter how small towards your opposite of the fear. Write and complete one per hour over the next eight hours, remembering to breath slowly and deeply whenever you notice tension as you do this activity and…
Have a great day!
William Michael Forbes
Copyright © 2010 by William Michael Forbes. All rights reserved.
No comments:
Post a Comment