Aloha everyone,
Fear creates more suffering on this planet than anything else. It is at the root of all cruelty and much of the violence we see. Fear is a learned behavior and anything we learn we can relearn in a loving and more expansive manner.
How many of your choices are fear based? The main objective of the Toltec tradition is to change the point of creation in your life from your mind to your spirit.
I often get e mails from people that believe one of the greatest opponent of a spiritual warrior is death. Since life is a fatal disease fighting death or viewing it as an opponent seems like a set up for misery. I believe that if we free ourselves of fear our connection to our spirit becomes so profound that we can walk through the portal of death with total awareness, but I digress.
Learning to shift your feeling state from one of fear to the expansive energy state of love is an incredibly powerful tool. I find the following three step process invaluable.
1. Expand your awareness so you know the many faces of fear.
2. Acknowledge the fear and enhance your willingness to release the fear.
3. Consciously shift gears from fear to love.
The more often we choose love the more we deepen our connection to our spirit and shift our point of creation.
With love and aloha,
Susan
Wow!Thank you for the wonderful statement: Fear is a learned behavior and anything we learn we can relearn in a loving and more expansive manner. That’s so indeed. I rewrote your thought into my notebook and question myself what do I fear in the concrete.
I understood that while worrying for my impotency to purchase the art materials, I “forgot” a passerby next to me – I inadvertently shifted from the light I see to my own handicrafts and thus the autumn came… The FALL. I was captivated by a Thing, but your article made me free again. At a moment I have grasped my fear, I stopped worrying for what I cant change and thus was rewarded with lots of time to enjoy the fellowship with people who never had read anything on Internet and even didn’t knew I have 6 blogs there – I was rewarded with joy to come in a hug with my fellows, the helpless disabled and the retired. Eye-to-eye contact have warmed my heart and was much more precious than the costly apparatus to share the dreams. The word of mouth cost nothing but enabled me to approach the portal of death with the strong awareness that my spirit isn’t alone here.
As I have looked at my life through the lenses of your statements, my sad day-to-day life have smiled to me again. Thank you for the words that reminded the spiritual values of our being here and now to me and thus dried up my tears.