Two Days We Should Not Worry

There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.

One of these days is Yesterday with all its mistakes and cares,
its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.

Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.
All the money in the world cannot bring back Yesterday.

We cannot undo a single act we performed;
we cannot erase a single word we said.
Yesterday is gone forever.

The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow
with all its possible adversities, its burdens,
its large promise and its poor performance;
Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control.

Tomorrow’s sun will rise,
either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise.
Until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow,
for it is yet to be born.

This leaves only one day, Today.
Any person can fight the battle of just one day.
It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities Yesterday and Tomorrow that we break down.

It is not the experience of Today that drives a person mad,
it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened Yesterday and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring.

Let us, therefore,
Live but one day at a time.

~ an unknown angel ~

Fear of Terrorism

When a country is at war or when people are threatened with potential terrorism, most individuals lose their connection to soul. This can be seen most clearly in many soldiers who have fought in battle. Many become emotionally disturbed, a result of disconnection from soul. This is especially notable among those individuals who tend to be compassionate and tolerant toward others.

There are two parts of the brain that do not operate together. They are poles apart. There is the prefrontal cortex which is the highest part of the brain. Being consciously soul connected requires one to focus through this part of the brain. In order for this focus to prevail, one must be at peace, non-combative, and not defensive. Being fearful blocks this part of the brain from controlling.

When people are afraid, they do not think creatively, compassionately or independently. This kind of thought requires the use of the higher brain. If we have previously developed this part of the brain, and have a tendency to use it on a regular basis, it will continue to attract our attention to cope with situations.

What results when both the higher brain wants to be active, and the primitive, defensive brain is activated through fear, is a real conflict between the two. This conflict typically produces heightened stress, chronic anxiety, chaos, confusion and depression.

This confused and depressed emotional-mental state unconsciously seeks escape because this is an unnatural state. Drugs (including prozac and the like) can provide temporary escape for some. Violence can erupt as a way of acting out the tension. Inertia may be a defense mechanism used. Creating a scapegoat or enemy to attack may be pursued. Giving up and surrendering to a governmental or military power may also be a way out.

None of these escapes, however, resolve the inner tension. We are still left with the problem that is rooted in fear. Unless we deal effectively with the fear we will not have peace and will remain disconnected from soul.

There are two things we can do that would help resolve this issue of government/authority-induced fear. First, we need to acknowledge that the fear is aroused within us by believing what we are told by those we accept as an authority greater than ourselves. We then need to rationally and intelligently examine what is said to ascertain its validity. In other words, are we being presented with facts, with the truth, or does the ‘authority’ have some hidden agenda for saying what it does?

Second, we need to rely on our own inner authority for what we believe and for the choices we make. We need to trust that we have the inner strength, intelligence and ability to be at peace and make appropriate decisions for our own well-being. By taking the time each day to relax deeply and/or go into a meditative state of mind, we reduce the amount of beta brainwaves that are heightened through fear and stress, and we produce an abundance of alpha brainwaves that make us feel peaceful and facilitate soul connections.

We cannot experience fear while we are producing strong alpha waves. In this relaxed meditative state our mind is receptive to soul impulse – the source of inner strength, love and intelligence. Through regular practice of this inner state of connection, we rely less and less on external authority, and gradually learn to trust the inner authority of soul. The choices we then make are more creative, compassionate and life enhancing for ourselves and others.

Fear, Intention & Risk

At one time or another, we all have experienced fear – from low-grade anxiety to terror. Fear can inhibit, paralyze, and profoundly affect the quality of our lives. Though fear can assist in helping us identify our desires and needs, it can prove debilitating unless we are able to release it. Fear prevents us from fully being alive and living our dreams. To live in fear is to live without faith.

I have been teaching and practicing what I call ‘an empowerment meditation’. We ask to be given light, love, peace and healing power. Light is, of course, enlightenment, wisdom, instinct, intuition and revelation. Love is not ‘please love me, I’m feeling miserable and lonely’, but rather, ‘please fill me with love, so that I can create with love, instead of fear’. Peace is the perfect peace that ‘passeth all understanding’. It is that peace in which there is absolutely no room for fear.

I had often wondered if I had ever reached that peace. It wasn’t until the doctors in Chicago diagnosed me several years ago with Lupus, and all the tests and sickness I’ve endured since then …. that I realized that my mind did not shift gear, not even one cog. I did feel an overwhelming gratitude for this opportunity to show, with irrefutable proof, that the Spirit of God which is within all of us, when directed skillfully by the mind, triumphs over all. The physical and the non-physical. I pray that I am skilful enough.

When I have totally eradicated this illness from myself, I hope to start a school for the self-treatment of chronic illness, using proper, chemical free nutrition and mind-power.

So that I should have a mind free to concentrate on healing, I have made my funeral arrangements. This way, I have avoided having others worry about what should be done and I no longer have to think of such things. Death is such a beautiful thing. It is like taking off a straight-jacket and being liberated. It is only those who distrust and fear the Source of all life, consciousness and energy, who are frightened of the inevitable. The only sin in all the omniverse is ignorance. And what suffering it causes.

I choose to live without fear of life, death or love ….

What if …

- Your feelings lie to you?
- Most of your thoughts and feelings come from fear?
- Most of your decisions are based on fear!

Being Fearless isn’t about jumping out of planes, it’s about jumping into life!

- Freedom from fear.
- Freedom from disappointment.
- Freedom from not enough.

Most people, no matter how confident they appear to be, often harbor paralyzing fears that overshadow their ability to live fearlessly. These fears are always whispering skeptical objections and feeding you doubts about anything that might shake up the status quo:

- Do you really think you should do that?
- Are you ready for a big step like this?
- Why don’t you get somebody else’s opinion?
- Are you sure you’re not getting in over your head?
- What will people say?

Living without fear, takes you out of the lie and into the truth of your own unique magnificence. Stop beating yourself up and become more accountable; this will help build on your objective: Ultimate Integrity. Mastering fear does not imply you will never experience fear again. But rather, you win knowing what actions to take to move you from Fear at will, to Freedom.

Your Fear Is As Smart As You

Whether you know it or not, fear has developed your likes and dislikes, picked your friends, and raised your children. Learn how to recognize when fear is running your life and take steps to set yourself free.

Fearless Intentions: What were you expecting?

Expectations breed fear, disappointment and discontent. They are silent contracts that focus your attention on the outcome instead of the process with little satisfaction. turn expectations into intentions freeing you to live your life on purpose, with purpose and get results that matter.

Excuses Dis-empower You

Excuses … excuse you from fulfilling your potential. They take away any sense of personal responsibility, accountability, or power, giving you permission to ignore your own values, beliefs, and commitments. Forgiveness is a process and we use it to accept, release and make peace with the people and circumstances that may have been keeping you up at night.

Complaining Advertises Your Fears

Complaining advertises your fears while keeping you stuck in the complaint. Increase your ability to see opportunities and possibilities by transforming your complaints into gratitude and acknowledgements.

It’s often said that love is the only thing that is true and real and that love is all we need to focus on if what we desire is to heal any thing … every thing. What is the opposite of love? Most people would instantly say “hate.” But what is the foundation for hate? Fear. Fear is the foundation for all things that are not love. Fear is the opposite of love.

One thing that has been pointed out to me during my continued spiritual quest for understanding is that when one loves, one expects. Giving love seems to have a purely human need to receive something in return. Expectations. What is that we ultimately have when we have expectations? Fear. And fear is the opposite of love.

When we have expectations we are living with limitations. We are living in fear. We are saying … there is only so much that I can give. I am limited. I need to receive in order to give. In addition we are saying … if I do not receive, what I am giving has no value to the one who is receiving. What is the foundation for feeling that something you give has no value? Fear.

Fear that you are not valuable, not worthy, not accepted, not loved in return or loved and recognized for what you are doing or giving. Another way of putting it … I am giving but not receiving, therefore the Universe is limited and I must hang on to what I have for I may run out of energy (or time, or love, or whatever the case may be). In addition we are saying … I am not receiving love therefore I will not give love. The basis for this comment, again, is fear.

How many judgments do we make before we offer love? How many expectations do we have once we offer love? Perhaps we don’t expect anything from the person or thing directly, but do we expect something from the Universe? Some sign of “reward” for having thoughts of love and compassion and acceptance?

But love is a state of BE-ING. Love is a state of pure acceptance. No judgment, no expectation. Love is a state of pure acceptance. It can’t be said too many times or in too many different ways. Many of us understand the concept perfectly.

But most of us also continue to seek the understanding beneath the words and the concept. We are, after all, human and so it is that situations and events can shift our focus and change our state of being pure love. We can become upset, angry, confused, resentful, frustrated, and any number of other things. In other words, we give the true state of our be-ing away to the “reality” that is playing around us. Why is this case? And, more importantly, how do we learn to be unaffected by what happens to us and around us?

It seems to be a great and burdensome task to ask of ourselves.. To become pure love. To do so would be to live without judgment of things such as murder, abuse, poverty, and all of the other things we, as humans, think of as negative and bad.

The argument against loving ALL things that humans create within their reality is strong and could be never-ending. But continuing the argument leaves us without the option to create new thought processes. If we continue to argue for the right to oppose the things we have labeled as “wrong,” we continue to close the door on the answer to how we might be able, within this consensual reality, to put all things into Divine Alignment and restore order within what appears to be chaos.

Is it a judgment to believe that we must set things “right?’ Or is it simply a matter of observation that all things and all people are an aspect of God and therefore should act and be treated accordingly? Is it possible that, even after all things return to the state of being divinely aligned with the original plan of God/Creator, such things as murder, abuse, poverty, and such things would still exist? Yes, it’s quite possible. Why? Due to the fact that we, as scholars who are studying the process of Creation, must experience ALL things.

This is one of the greatest struggles that we, as aspiring Masters, have. To accept that all things in existence are presentations of God/Creation. One of the reasons, other than our sincere compassion and desire to see joy lived by all creatures, is that we believe all things should be treated with honor and respect and the recognition that all things are an aspect of God. Would we, if we saw a person as an aspect of God, slap, scream at, or other abuse that person? Probably not.

How then do we achieve a place of pure acceptance of the things that appear to be out of the realm of what God would want for us, for those who live within this reality? By realizing that, though there are things that do not seem “perfect” and in Divine Alignment, the events that transpire around us are “tools” that we create, as a society, in order to show ourselves and others ALL sides of existence. We must, as aspiring Masters, understand the cause and effect of all things within existence. We must, as aspiring Masters, understand balance, light vs. dark, positive vs. negative, and all other polarities that exist within the realm of existence.

Does it then become simply a matter of choosing the reality you wish to live? Absolutely.

One of the greatest teachings from those who believe that we create our own reality and that we have the ability to manifest anything we can imagine is that we must first become something in order to have something. Can we become something if we have a judgment about it? In other words, if we desire money but we have fear that we will not achieve our desire, we obviously have a judgment. Judgments do not have a foundation of pure love and acceptance. Again .. all judgments have a base of fear and love does not live where fear exists. Therefore, we cannot become abundance if we have a fear that we are not the source of all abundance.

What is the bottom line? Control over our emotional reaction to the reality that exists outside of ourselves.

As pure Soul, we exist in a state of Grace and Love. Within the pure power of our Soul lies the knowledge that nothing truly exists except what we choose to create. If we are creating all things that seem to exist outside of ourselves, what then do we have to fear? What then can take our power away? What then has the power to disrupt us from the pure state of love?

And … what then do we base our judgments upon? When we judge we are, in essence, judging ourselves. What then would be the bottom line here? That we fear what we create.

Can we be effective Masters and Creators if we are in fear of that which we create? And so the issue comes full-circle. Pure acceptance and pure love for all experiences is the necessary state of be-ing for those who choose to accept full Mastery.

Pure acceptance of all things eliminates all fear. Fear is the “wall” between us and what we would choose to create in order to bring us to a state of being joy and fulfillment. If we do not fear that which we create, we do not expect to have what we give returned to us. We live in pure acceptance that all things will flow within the process of Divine Creation. We are not separate from that which we desire. We are not separate from a state of Grace. We do not have to strive to be something we are not .. for we are all things.

When we read of miracles, of instant healings, of a desperate need being met in the “final moment,” we are reading about someone who has reached a point of surrendering to the realization that they are not separate from the source of Creation. This success may be reached sub-consciously, but nevertheless it is the opening of a door, the sudden explosion of realization within us, that creates a vortex of creative energy that allows us to accept that we deserve what we are striving for.

Returning to the original point of this article … if we are pure love, what will be returned to us but pure love? That love may exhibit itself in any one of a million ways. It may exhibit itself by giving us our greatest trial. A trial that will take us to the next step of understanding in our quest for Mastery. Our Soul will give us that which we need. That which we fear the most is that which will we draw to ourselves. These experiences are our Soul’s gifts to us to show us where our fears live and to show us what we need to heal within ourselves in order to live in pure love. If we judge the expression of love our Soul is attempting to give us, we are limiting our Soul’s ability to give us what we need.

If we fear the expression of love that is presented to us, if we judge the way in which we present lessons to ourselves, we stem the flow of love from ourselves, from our Soul.

To live without fear is to live in pure love and pure acceptance. To live in pure love is to achieve a life in which we live pure Soul-expression.

We need to move beyond fear to a life where risks will be taken, opportunities seized, and dreams fulfilled. Recognize the origin of your fears and the disguises it wears such as feelings of entitlement and complaining. Trade excuses and expectations for choice and intention. When people complain, blame and gossip they are verbalizing their expectations with no solution in sight. Living in expectation keeps you stuck, immobile and dissatisfied. Intention sets you in motion with clarity of purpose building your self-confidence and empowering you to go beyond your present limitations.

Give up disappointment as a way of life. Take back your power by releasing expectation. Recognize the path of intention and go beyond goal setting to produce visionary results. Master intention, it moves you forward faster. Dealing with change, the unknown future, limited resources, additional responsibilities, and stress as well as the balance between home and work stops you from moving to the next level ( spirituality) causing unnecessary havoc in your life. Fear lowers self-confidence and takes away people’s ability to risk. The bottom line is that fear is what stands between any individual and their ability to flourish.

To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.

To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.

To reach out for another is to risk involvement.

To expose your feelings is to risk exposing your true self.

To place your ideas, your dreams before a crowd is to risk their
loss.

To Love is to risk not being loved in return.

To live is to risk dying.

To hope is to risk despair.

To try is to risk failure.

“But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing…has nothing..is nothing. You may avoid suffering and sorrow, but you simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love…live. Chained by your certitudes, you are a slave; you have forfeited freedom. Only a person who risks is free.”

by Ralph Waldo Emerson