F.E.A.R. False Evidence Appearing Real

How many times have you been confronted with situations that affect your life but you have no answer or clue to what the outcome will be? Your Company has been acquired. You’ve been downsized, laid off, or fired. You feel pressure from your spouse or significant other to do/act a certain way. Your marriage/relationship has ended. You receive a diagnosis. You or someone you care about is suffering with an addiction. You can’t find a job. Your children are teenagers. You listen to the news. Whatever the situation, describe your initial reaction to uncertainty.

Our initial human reaction to the unknown is usually fear. The limbic/amygdala area of our brain gets activated. Fear defined is a very unpleasant or disturbing feeling caused by the real or imagined presence or imminence of danger. That feeling "imminent danger" is the topic of this blog post. I remember being 39 and being frightened that I was going to die. I wasn’t sick. I wasn’t suicidal. I wasn’t scheduled or recovering from surgery. An old memory was trespassing on my present. My perception was distorted. My mom died at 39, the victim of a botched surgery. As I approached my 39th birthday my mind said to me “you might die at 39 too”. Fear is frequently irrational. It is a feeling we were granted for protection. The stove is hot don’t touch it. A person pulls out a gun take cover. Fear was not given to us to coddle up to in times of uncertainty.

Imminence means about to happen. How do you know what is about to happen? What corner can you see around? How many times did you think something was about to happen and it didn’t? How many times have you been fearful of something only to find there was nothing to fear? You opened the closet and the boogeyman was not there.

Fear affects us mentally, spiritually, and physically. It first and foremost severs our connection to hope. Fear wants you all to itself. Fear knows its power is in disconnection and isolation. The more you expose fear the less power fear holds.

Fear says you’re in danger. Hope says your safe. Fear says the end is near. Faith says I have the last word. Fortunately, the options you have to break out of fear, center yourself, come out of your head and come back to what is real (in this breath, in this moment, you have everything you need) are abundant. Read some of my posts on the Google+ Community: The Connection: Body, Mind, Spirit to remind yourself of what you know. You are courageous, you are enough, you are worthy of love, belonging, abundance, healing, and peace. Affirm your life.

Affirm your divine, unique, special self. You can tap into a Loving Power greater than yourself and rest assured that all is well. There is no lack. There is a bigger picture pregnant with possibilities and peace. You can choose to give birth to possibility, healing, testimony or allow fear to trespass on your heart obliterating the gift of the present. All you are going thru is really not for you anyway. A dear friend told me one time as I was playing tug of war with control, knowing, and fear. She said, “The ink is dry.” Have faith in what you have already transcended, walked through, been delivered from. Be a message of hope. Connect with positive, connected, people. Peace is a choice. Don’t let fear turn you around. Take your seat at the table of purpose and passion, hope and peace. You are going to be all right. It actually is already all right. You can only see a sliver of a bigger picture.

Look into your eyes and see your reflection. You are Divinely created and covered. No weapon formed against you can prosper. All that looks like imminent danger is an illusion. Walk around the corner. Grace will meet you when you get there.