ThE ILLUSION OF FEAR
***This is an essay on fear, inspired by a very scary experience I had. I wrote it initially for me, and then realized I should share with others. **
Fear is the greatest THIEF of life.
The destroyer of freedom, imprisoning us in a cell of illusions and projections.
We engage with fear as if it was a “real” threat, but in reality it is simply an illusion.
The experience from a past hurt, disappointment or threat that we are bringing into the present and projecting into the future.
Fear lives in the future, a simple projection of things not yet happened.
Yes, we may have experienced past hurt, threat or trauma, maybe it was embarrassment, ridicule, or shame. Yet whatever happened, it is in the past. We survived it.
Can we take the learning, remind ourselves of our power to survive, and leave it in the past?
Fear silence us, it locks us into a prison of our own making.
We give it power and wings the more “airtime” we give it.
Why entertain something that has not yet happened in recreating a feeling that is so paralyzing and curtailing of our energy?
We can create new each day… we get to decide...what do we want to experience? How do we want to show up today?
So why recreate a negative experience into the future?
Why not spend our precious energy and imagination in creating a NEW experience?
WE HAVE THE POWER TO CHOOSE WHO WE WANT TO BE TODAY
SEPARATE FROM THE EVENTS FROM YESTERDAY
WHY CHOOSE TO BRING AN UNFRIENDLY FEELING ALONG INTO OUR JOURNEY INTO THE FUTURE?
Allow fear to inform you, to teach you, and to guide you how to better prepare yourself in a new challenge or endeavor.
Allow it to FUEL your DETERMINATION AND POWER to RISE ABOVE the illusions of doom and despair and CREATE the new reality.
Let your heartbeat ignite your courage, to UNLEASH your power within, to allow your life force to become a beacon of light and love especially amidst darkness and negativity.
CHOOSE to bring your power forth with humbleness and dignity, to move forward slowly but surely.
To RECLAIM your life force that fear so perilously attempts to steal from your hands.
REMEMBER THAT YOU HAVE THE CHOICE OF WHAT YOU GIVE YOUR POWER TO, by what you focus your energy towards.
Will you feed the good or the bad wolf?
It is UP to you!
Be kind with yourself, be honest, and compassionate.
Acknowledge the part that wants to keep you contained safe from future hurt, and remind it that you are MUCH STRONGER.
You don't need to give your power away to people, places or circumstances that ultimately don't have your best interest in mind.
Rise up my dear!
You are strong, resilient and resourceful.
You are a force to be reconned with.
You are a light in the world
Shine your light unabashedly
Steady yourself in light and compassion and
remember that when others do hurtful things most often it is
because they have allowed fear to win that moment.
Let YOUR LIGHT BE BIGGER THAN THEIR FEAR.
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