Overcoming
A Fearful Mind With Love
Fear
is running our world to devastating effect. A familiar companion to
most of us, fear poisons our thinking and causes us to see enemies,
threats and dangers were none exist. In turn, we defend and offend
and in so doing, make those enemies, threats and dangers real. For
many, it is hard to see how this happens because fear itself blinds
us and makes us reactionary. It might also be argued that greed, and
not fear, is the cause of so much suffering in our world, but greed
is merely a symptom of fear. All greed, worry, cruelty, violence,
wrong action … and resultant miseries are derived from fear.
Of
course there is the argument that fear serves us by serving our
instinct to survive.
This is without doubt true, and without doubt has served our species
well. But having
developed beyond an informant to our instinctual and adrenal
boosting functions into a default motivating impetus, fear has
maligned our psyche in a way that is irrefutably counter productive
to our species and the planet. It has largely outgrown its use.
As
sublime as nature is, it will not sacrifice the lesser of its
creation for the greater. Or rather that part (in this case us)
which does not harmonize with its whole and so threatens the whole.
Instinctively we know this and we know too that if we are to
eliminate the threat of being one of nature’s rejects, we must
evolve in a way that is harmonious with our greater selves, our
greater nature. But how?
How
sublime nature is, and as one of its sublime creations, the age for
our latent potential to emerge is on the horizon. Fear has been the
infant of our species’ evolution, but love will be the aged sage
of it. But what is love, true love?
Love
is beyond words, but we can discern it through the many ways that it
expresses itself. Love does not: judge, hold back, control, or
diminish. It does not want something in return. It strengthens and
nurtures, is pure, peaceful, joyous, inspiring, compassionate,
priceless, free, sublime, everlasting, infinite and divine
We
often hear there is not enough love in the world, or words to this
effect, but this is not true. What is lacking is an ability to give
and receive love. Our fear gets in
the way, and blocks it. Fear is like a tight, clenched, fist that
cannot, will not, open to give or receive. It is hard and tense, and
is life diminishing because it stops the flow of life energy. When
you hold your hands into a fist, there is a subtle change in your
ability to breath, you cannot breath as calmly and deeply as you can
with an open relaxed hand. This is physiological fact. Love on the
other hand is open, relaxed and able to give and receive. Like the
breath that is deeper and easier when the hand is open, love is life
affirming.
Through
the simple act of opening our hands we enable our ability to give
and receive more love. By doing this, the psychological effect is
such that our minds begin to open up a little more while our fear
loses a little bit of its power over us. The strength of our fear is
inversely equal to our capacity to give and receive love. The
greater our ability to give and recieve love, the more we will see
through the illusions of our fear, and the more we will see there is
really nothing to fear. The more we can let love flow through us,
the greater our experiential wisdom will become, the greater our joy
of life will be. Not only will we be in harmony with ourselves, but
with all of creation. This is our latent, but true nature. This is
what we are destined for once we transform our minds by dissolving
our fear with love.
To
learn more on how to reduce your fear and master your mind:
How
The Heart Empowers The Mind
Master
Your Mind
None
Judgment
Purifying
Your Mind
Meditation
May All
Beings Know: True Love, True Peace, True Happiness
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