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Running Out Of Time
- FEAR
- ANXIETY/NERVOUSNESS/STRESS
- OPPORTUNITY
DearJames,
I have so many overriding moments of fear. I know fear is a lie, but still, it creeps up on my life. I feel as if I am running out of time. I know we have to make our own life and happiness. Any insights would be awesome.
Anonymous
Dear Running Out Of Time,
Fear is not a lie, on the contrary, it is one of the greatest energies at your disposal. As an epic force, fear is often misunderstood, seen only as a foe, and/or only interpreted via its shadow aspects.
When you see fear as an energy, a friend, fear as you’ve known it, changes.
Now, that is not to say that shadow aspects of fear don’t exist, because they do. However, the energy of fear, by its very nature, is both positively and negatively charged. How one experiences fear all depends on how one sees it, harnesses it, and utilizes it.
Until fear is understood, it will be misunderstood.
When you allow the force of fear to consume you, you become immobilized, destabilized, incapacitated, and diminished. You are buying into the manufactured illusion of what you believe fear means and represents.
Descending into a cyclical disconnect from your soul, your ego-mind-personality takes control, screams danger, and overrides the entirety of your being. Of course, at times, that is exactly what fear is meant to do, warn you about danger or imminent danger.
However, there is also the aspect of fear that either immobilizes or propels us forward. Choosing the latter is always the more beneficial option. Fear as a positive motivator, catalyst for change, and force to be reckoned with, is to be recognized, accepted, and appreciated as a positive influence not a negative one.
Turn the tables and the tides in your life by talking to and with fear. What is it protecting you from? What is it leading you to? What does it wish to teach you?
Fear was never intended to create more fear. It was created as a catalyst for growth and change, offer protection in the form of heightened awareness, and teach opportunity in the cloak of an opposite.
Fear requires discernment.
In any given circumstance, one must discern what aspect of fear is presenting itself and how best to engage its force. When you are overcome with fear, it is because you are viewing and accepting fear as a negative, immobilizing force. In these instances, immediately recognize the experience you are having with fear and engage discernment to alter its energy by allowing yourself to see what its energy is actually prompting you to do, see, and experience.
From this more informed perspective, the heightened reaction to fear dissipated and you can transmute any negative aspects of fear into a usable force that propels you forward. Having harnessed the positive aspects of fear, you have utilized the energy of fear as it is intended.
When fear arises, allow its presence to inform and enlighten you. To sense danger and/or embrace the change it is presenting you. Like the potter’s wheel and the unseen forces that mold and shape the clay, the beauty in the creation and experience is in becoming one with it.
You are energy. Fear is energy. Everything is energy. Become one with the energy of fear; forever harnessing its force for your aid, assistance, and benefit.
In every instance, FEAR IS YOUR FRIEND! And that level of EMPOWERMENT renders you fearless.