Someone on an Abe forum I participate on, asked the following question:
Has anyone ever had general fear based thoughts..(I did this before
LOA too) ie…If I don’t send this email…what if something bad
happens? Or…If I don’t do my meditation this morning I will ‘rock’
the boat of all that’s good in my life?
And I replied:
I think I’ve written about fear on this list about a hundred times or more cuz I’m that whatever number on the enneagram that’s fear based, meaning I not only worry for myself, I worry for the Universe. So actually your job is already taken, I’m filling it for you. Just kidding :) I could tell you a ton of things of which the most important is that fear does not exist without some sort of story that you tell yourself to back it up. That helps me sometimes.
Here’s the one thing that will work everytime without fail but you have to want to do it, more than you want to ruminate. That sounds pretty obvious, but sometimes fear is another mask for perpetuating self hate. That’s my opinion anyway. OK the thing that works every time:
Take a deep conscious breath, do it again…you can’t worry and consciously breathe at the same time. In other words you can’t be IN THE PRESENT MOMENT and worry at the same time. Fear and it’s joined at the hip pal, worry, can’t flourish in an environment where you are focused in the now. But it flourishes quite well when we focus outside of the now.
So deep breath, silenty say: present moment AND I love myself enough to not want to beat myself up with this thing called fear.
