| Some tips and insights to overcome fearful thoughts | | | | yourself to be someone you value, and will stand by, |
| and emotional states that cause you to contract | | | | and encourage in the process of imagining |
| from others and from your own sense of | | | | constructive actions you can take to deal with the |
| resourcefulness and joy: | | | | perceived event. No put downs, including complaining, |
| 1) Leap! Liberation and empowerment always come | | | | which is a disguised put down! How is complaining a |
| dressed in paradox. If you find yourself contracting | | | | put down? In order to complain, you first have to |
| and holding back and holding on, don't spend time | | | | judge yourself not good enough or smart enough to |
| stewing. Just give! Give your money, give your time, | | | | handle the challenge. |
| give your attention to others (especially outside your | | | | It may not seem to you that it is just as easy to |
| family). Disregard the fearful objecting thoughts of | | | | imagine positive consequences as negative ones, but |
| lack and limitation and just do it. | | | | that is just a function of habit. You can practice |
| 2) Make giving a regular part of your life, daily or | | | | imagining positive constructive outcomes and you can |
| weekly is best. Fight for cheerfulness; dismiss | | | | practice brainstorming the means to accomplish them. |
| shyness or moodiness and practice friendliness. No | | | | Inspiration to create this new habit of constructive |
| effort at kindness is too small! | | | | imagining and brainstorming increases easily when you |
| 3) Master your (fearful) mind! This is easier to do | | | | realize that fearful thinking, and its resulting |
| when you understand in a vivid, on-the-spot way, the | | | | contracted mental and emotional states, are never |
| difference between imagination, and perception, and | | | | required (according to the law of causality) and they |
| the nature of causality. | | | | never help! |
| Perception doesn't cause anything! It is just raw data. | | | | It is always a mistake to choose to give in to fearful |
| For example, receiving a pink slip, or perceiving the | | | | thinking. If you take some time to focus on this fact |
| imagination that you are about to, doesn't cause | | | | so that you really develop confidence in it, you will |
| anything. In other words, you do not have to feel | | | | readily arouse your aggressive energy to reject |
| afraid. Fear isn't caused by perception of an outer | | | | fearful thinking and replace it with creative thinking. |
| event or an inner event (thoughts and imaginations). | | | | Here is an example of how one person chose to |
| Fear is caused when you move from perception to | | | | trust the paradoxical nature of liberation and |
| imagination of consequence (thinking things will only | | | | empowerment. Many years ago a very successful |
| get worse) to conviction that you can't handle the | | | | man shared what he said was his primary secret to |
| consequence and nothing good can come of it | | | | success. He said simply, "Whatever direction fear told |
| (you're screwed!). That "move from" moment is the | | | | me to go in, I went in the opposite direction. That |
| on-the-spot moment of choice. | | | | made all the difference." |
| Instead of choosing fearful thinking and imagining, you | | | | May we all prosper with enhanced compassion and |
| have a choice to move from perception to imagining | | | | wisdom! Let's make a difference together. Good luck. |