Morning everyone! Hope you are all enjoying the weekend.. I came across this article on the Huffington Post a while back and I promised myself I would share it with cyber world.
Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival
hustlers tell you about fearless living -- they lie. But you already
sense the truth of this, or you wouldn't still be looking for ways to
escape those everyday fears that stalk your happiness like a lion does
the unwary gazelle.
The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as "creating a new reality" for yourself, then you would already be the fearless person you know in your heart that you're meant to be.
It's just not that easy... which brings us to a great liberating truth,
an insight you must prove to yourself before you can know its power to
dismantle any fear.
When it comes to the fearless life, the divine gives nothing
freely... save to those who freely give themselves to discovering the
truth about their own fearless selves. The good news is that this
supreme confidence and calm already lives within you, needing
only your realization of its unshakable presence in order to empower
you with the fearlessness you seek.
The following seven laws are like a golden invitation to your own
coronation. To "open" each one and receive its royal instruction about
how to live free of fear, you need do only one thing: Ask sincerely
that you might understand its secret message, and then, when the answer
comes, welcome those insights as long-lost friends -- for that is exactly what they are. They will do the rest for you.
- When you know that what you're looking for is what you already are -- and not what you may become -- you stand on the threshold of fearless living.
Now to these seven laws, let's add three additional facts that
will help prove the possibility of a fearless life. Taken alone, each
of the following statements supplies insight into the seemingly
impenetrable darkness that surrounds any fear. Taken altogether, these
bright new facts reveal a whole new understanding that penetrates
fear's protective shell, dispelling both the feared and the fearful at
once. The light that remains is freedom.
We can either spend our lives struggling to protect ourselves from
our fears -- which is the general existence of the unconscious masses
-- or we can learn how to use our lives to discover that, in reality, there is no self to fear,
and that the shaky world perceived by this shadow-self is but its own
unreal shadow. The good news is that it's possible to learn so much
about the nature of fear that one day, it simply runs out of ways to
make you believe in its shaking.
No fact is frightening unless it runs into conflict with what you want. When this happens, the fear is not in the event, but in you
-- who have decided that in order to feel secure, life must jump
through your hoop. The fear you feel is in your hoop, not in the fact
that life may have jumped unexpectedly.
Last but by no means least of these fear-busting ideas is this
final fact and implied action: It is in your power to discover that who
you really are has nothing to fear, but that you make yourself fearful
each time you look outside of yourself for some power to make you feel
fearless.
I hope you enjoyed the article as much as I did! It may require a few reads before you get to grips with it is actually talking about.
