The Experience in Fear

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

-- Mark Twain

I sat up with I read this quote. Not because I liked it, but because my experience has been different.

I cannot "resist" fear because that feels, to me, like I'm fighting or pushing against it. If I am resisting fear, I am activating whatever it is I fear and attracting more of the same to me.

I suppose I can master fear, but that word doesn't fit me. Mastering implies having control over the fear. I do not see fear as being something I need to control.

How I feel about something is important, so I would not choose these words.

It's been my experience that I move through fear.

I experience fear. I acknowledge fear.

I also understand that a fear is based in the future, and I'm the one who creates my future.

It's with this understanding that I am able to act (most times) in spite of fear. (Did I mention that I'm a spiritual being having a human experience?)

I am also aware that fear is guidance.

Depending on the feeling, fear may also be an indication that there is true danger.

This is why I believe that fear must be acknowledged and experienced. It is through the experience of our fear that we can understand if it is guidance to move forward or guidance to hold fast.

I will try to explain how I experience fear. I feel it in my body. A fear guiding me to hold fast is generally lower in the pit of my stomach, and the guidance to act in spite of fear is higher in my body, quite often diaphram area (butterflies).

Everybody is different. You may feel your guidance differently.

Getting in touch with your inner guidance and learning to "listen" as you experience fear will allow you to move forward with courage, or hold fast with courage.

Fear is your guidance talking. Are you ready to listen?


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What do you get out of it?

I went to a movie last night. You may have heard of it. What the Bleep do We Know.

Very good movie. Very thought provoking. If you get the chance to go see it, definitely do!

One of the things that stood out for me is that we created the situation we are in right now. We chose it for one reason or another.

You might be thinking right now, "Why would I WANT to choose what I'm experiencing right now? That's absolute nonsense!"

We get something out of it. Maybe it's simply being able to blame someone or something else for our experience, and not having to take responsibility for it.

Taking responsibility for your life and your experience is a big part of living an abundant life. I'd even go so far as to say a critical component.

If I'm not responsible for my life, who is? If I'm not choosing my actions, who is?

What do you get out of your present situation? Is it being able to put the responsibility on someone else rather than where it belongs? On you?

One of the other things I learned from the movie is that it is important for me to live in the Now...to be happy in the Now.

What can I do right now to feel the emotions I want to feel? What can I do right now to experience what I want to experience?

If I can continually ask these questions of myself, and begin choosing my experiences moment by moment, then I can begin to attract (create) those things that I desire in my life that will give me more of those emotions, feelings and experiences.

I can see that this post could be pages and pages, take hours to write and read, and that's not what I want. My son's coloring a beautiful picture for me, and I want to share that with him.

Go see What the Bleep do We Know if you're ready to begin creating your life by choice rather than by default.

I'm going to buy the DVD when it comes out. I want to be able to watch it again. I know I'll get something more out of it each time I watch it.

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Results and Feelings

If you are predominantly focused on the RESULTS of your focused thoughts rather than FEELING your way within your thoughts, it is easy to lose your way.

--Abraham in Ask and It Is Given

It's very easy to get caught up in the results we want and forget all about the feelings.

It is an automatic response from our conditioning that can be overcome with practice.

What it really comes down to is the feeling.

Consider why you want something. How would having that make you feel? Isn't that why you want it? To feel that way?

If you are ready to begin attracting the things you desire to you right now, get creative about how you can experience those feelings right now.

Is freedom the feeling you're looking for? How about putting the headphones on and listening to (loosing yourself in) your favorite music? Perhaps you experience freedom while jogging?

With who you are, where you are and the resources available to you right now, how can you create that desired feeling?

I think I'm going to color with my son today. ;-)

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Belief

Lots of thoughts this morning! So here's a second post. Something good to think about.

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself
-- Robert Collier

Someone asked me once which I felt was more important to success ... belief or persistence.

I'd have to say it was persistence in building my belief.

If I didn't build my belief in myself, no amount of persistence would find me true and lasting success.

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Be as Happy as You Want to be

Be as happy as you want to be in a world gone mad. Be as safe as youw ant to be in a world that is afraid of everything. Be as health as you want to be in a world that is mostly sick. Don't let statistics that someone else has created affect you. You get to choose -- you are wise enough, smart enough, deliberate enough.
--Abraham-Hicks

You get to choose. Pretty powerful.

I never used to understand how powerful I really was. I never understood that I could choose how I wanted to feel, how I wanted to look at things. I had thought that it was those things outside of me that controlled my experience.

I don't remember right now where I read it or heard it, but someone said "be happy where you are right now".

There are two ways to look at an experience. I can look for what's right about that experience, or I can look at what's wrong about that experience.

Which ever one I choose, that's the one that's going to grow.

Putting attention on something is kind of like watering and feeding a plant. The more attention you give it, the more food and water you are giving it, and the more it grows.

No matter what my experience is, I'm going to water the flowers.

So what do you choose? Flowers or Weeds?

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Go With the Flow

I've heard it before, as I'm sure you have. "Just go with the flow."

What I have learned is that it's true.

If you're not going with the flow, you're Pushing.

If you're pushing, you're working very hard to go up stream, and likely not moving very far if at all.

If you're going with the flow, you're moving with the stream, flowing to your destination (destiny?).

If you're going with the flow, you're moving forward, and don't have to work so hard to keep moving.

If you're going with the flow, it's the one way you can be still and move forward at the same time.

Inspired Actions are like dipping your paddle into the water to guide you (your canoe) to where it is you desire (intend) to go.

Inspired In-Action.

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