Some Thoughts on Fear... and Courage

Courage is doing something you don’t want to do or are afraid to do.   Not wanting to do something doesn’t necessarily mean you are afraid to do it.   Choice means you can decide for yourself if you want to do something whether it is something you simply don’t want to do or are afraid to do.   In both instances you weigh the positive results against the negative results and then make your decision.  It is said that if you are afraid of something to ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’.  Good advice but you may need to decide what you are actually feeling. 
Anxiety and worry are forms of fear.  Anxiety and worry are both the fear of something that may or may not happen and in fact, may or may not even be real.  If you can recognize something as fear try to get into the feeling.  The more you can feel the feeling the more you will face the fear and and start to release it.   If life doesn’t seem to be working for you or there are some things you want in life and you haven’t been able to get those things you might want to consider assessing yourself to see if there is a fear that is holding you back.   And remember... anxiety and worry are forms of fear also.     

Go With Your Gut.....

Go with your gut.  Go with your feelings.  You have heard of these proverbs and they are good advice about making decisions.  But I want to take it a step further.  Recently these posts have been about selfhood and knowing yourself and making decisions is a good place to put your self knowledge to use.   If you go with your feelings about something but those feelings are based on information you learned as a child from sources outside yourself they may not reflect the true you.   The decision you just made based on those feelings may not be a reflection of who you really are.  So when you need to make a decision about something, go with your gut, pay attention to your feelings, but know where your gut feelings come from and if they truly reflect who you are.  

Anything but easy........

Incarnating on planet earth is anything but easy.   The key to a successful life on earth seems to be conquering the emotions.   There are a lot of things that confront us on earth but it is working through the feelings around all them that makes things work.   Usually the way to master the emotions is to feel them completely, let them run their course.  And we are certainly confronted by painful and uncomfortable things such as loss, death, violence/war, chronic pain, illness, mental disorders.   The list goes on.   If you are having a particularly hard time with something I would suggest looking at the feelings and emotions around them.