Are you ready to release your fear?
Have you ever wondered how many times we misdiagnose a situation?
How many times we carry on a path not knowing that our assumption
has taken us miles off course.
It’s like playing golf and only knowing how to use three clubs and
having to use them in every situation.
It’s like looking through a camera zoom lens instead of a wide
angle.
It’s like blindly following another’s opinion.
The fact is that most of our lives are spent re-using the
information collected in our formative years. Thus, when anything
new enters our arena we immediately go to the past to try to make
sense of it.
The outcome is: we each live an illusion. We each see our world
through some really heavily tinted spectacles. We each act as
though we are a hammer and everything that comes in front of us is
a nail.
The problem is. IT DOESN’T WORK.
We were amazed how easily we fell into the trap. How easily we
interpreted what was happening before our eyes and made it logical.
How easily we searched for closure.
To make us comfortable we wanted to put things into a comfortable
category. We wanted to place happenings in a box in the same way a
librarian codes books for easy access. Ah! That goes in the family
box. That is rude behaviour. That is unacceptable in public. That
shows he is uneducated etc etc etc…
Yes, you could argue that this form of coding is important in life
because it helps us get through life quickly.
BUT!!!
Why do we like to put ourselves and others into ‘psychological
boxes’? What is it about us that we like to say we are this type of
person or that? Why do we want to limit ourselves? Why do we want
to sell ourselves short?
It’s like being a carpenter who only has a hammer in his toolbox.
We are restricting ourselves beyond belief. Just imagine how
restricting it would be if you only had a hammer in your toolbox?
How can you get passionate about anything if all you are capable of
is knocking the brains out of any information that comes your way?
How do you find out what you were brought onto this planet to do if
all you can do is respond in the same way to whatever is put in
front of you.
How do you develop and grow your children if all they see is the
same behaviour irrespective of the problem posed.
How do you rise to the challenges of our society if all you do is
apply the same reasoning even though it doesn’t fit?
Is this why we like to categorize situations and people? We
actually don’t like hard work.
Is it that we don’t like the pressure of being our true selves?
Because to do that we have to stand out?
Is it that we can’t cope with being unique and extraordinary, so we
just want to be similar and ordinary?
Is it that we are afraid of who we might be? Are we afraid that we
can be successful? Afraid that if we admit to ourselves that we
have talent we might have to do something with our lives?
Is it that we don’t really want to find out who we really are and
what we are capable of?
I don’t know about you but I want to be unique, I want to find out
and use my uniqueness. I want to be fulfilled. I want to find my
energy source that is released when I am doing what I am intended
to do. I want to be in the flow.
I have come to realize that what stops us from being in the flow,
stops us from living our passion,stops us from behaving naturally.
FEAR.
Fear keeps us placing people and situations into categories.
Fear stops us from leading ourselves.
Fear stops us from letting go of the past.
Fear keeps our habitual patterns in place.
Being frightened and feeling second best stop us from finding our
true selves.
Fear buries the natural me.
Are you ready to release your fear?
If you let go of your fear, what would you accomplish?
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