04-21-2019, 01:08 PM
Thank you Shannon. It's always welcome when you respond and special when you take the time to go into detail to offer your thoughts. I hadn't really followed up with my post on what i'd realised.
I understand the lies of my fear and don't really believe that it's keeping me safe. As my fears have been so consuming, the step 'outside' of my mind into a place of 'being' first helped me to see that far from keeping me safe, my fears were removing the potential for growth and creation of my reality.
I'll give you an example. I have been procrastinating for several weeks on writing a report, whilst over eating and smoking. Coming to a place where I can see those fears at play shows me they're creating the very outcome I fear in the first place (not only are fears a lie in keeping me safe in this instance, they're actually causing the very outcome I fear). In a place outside of fear though (not to sound to Eckhart tolle now) I'll call 'being' I enter into a place of choice and yes, 'logic'. I struggle with that term as it seems too rigid, let's just say clear thinking. from there I decide that actually i'm better off working on my report and possibly not getting there in time then not working on it and definitely fucking up; as far as food is concerned, I decide that actually if i'm going to lose fat then I can cut out sugar today.
It goes further, I have never worked solidly for more than an hour on something ever, in this space that doesn't matter, I can 'create' a 'possibility' that I can work 4 hours straight and you know what - I've probably been more productive than ever.
In terms of purpose, I picked up a recording somehow of an old adviser I met when I was younger. He told me my lifes work, and it was already something i'd considered. Everything around me points me in this direction. I am moving now to become a coach and counsellor (like your uncle). Though I will look to develop a solid stream of income first.
So I agree. Fear is a liar, not only is it a liar but it will often create exactly that which I fear, and it's in the absence of fear, in 'being' where there is space to exercise clear thought with a clearer perception of reality.
I hope I've understood you.
I understand the lies of my fear and don't really believe that it's keeping me safe. As my fears have been so consuming, the step 'outside' of my mind into a place of 'being' first helped me to see that far from keeping me safe, my fears were removing the potential for growth and creation of my reality.
I'll give you an example. I have been procrastinating for several weeks on writing a report, whilst over eating and smoking. Coming to a place where I can see those fears at play shows me they're creating the very outcome I fear in the first place (not only are fears a lie in keeping me safe in this instance, they're actually causing the very outcome I fear). In a place outside of fear though (not to sound to Eckhart tolle now) I'll call 'being' I enter into a place of choice and yes, 'logic'. I struggle with that term as it seems too rigid, let's just say clear thinking. from there I decide that actually i'm better off working on my report and possibly not getting there in time then not working on it and definitely fucking up; as far as food is concerned, I decide that actually if i'm going to lose fat then I can cut out sugar today.
It goes further, I have never worked solidly for more than an hour on something ever, in this space that doesn't matter, I can 'create' a 'possibility' that I can work 4 hours straight and you know what - I've probably been more productive than ever.
In terms of purpose, I picked up a recording somehow of an old adviser I met when I was younger. He told me my lifes work, and it was already something i'd considered. Everything around me points me in this direction. I am moving now to become a coach and counsellor (like your uncle). Though I will look to develop a solid stream of income first.
So I agree. Fear is a liar, not only is it a liar but it will often create exactly that which I fear, and it's in the absence of fear, in 'being' where there is space to exercise clear thought with a clearer perception of reality.
I hope I've understood you.
Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
