Overcoming "Life Fright"

"Life fright" is extended "stage fright!" The whole world is stage and scary, intimidating audience is everyone outside of us. And irony is that we are not really afraid of dying- we're afraid of really living. Most people on Earth are having a Near-Life Experience! Afraid to speak our truth. Fearful of disapproval and rejection. Anxious about our safety and survival. Scared of deep love and joy!

Does life fright limit our ability to enjoy self-expression, creativity and professional and personal fulfillment? You bet! But we can learn powerful tools to integrate and release our inner saboteurs. We can open to a new sense of ease, aliveness, spontaneity and freedom in all areas of our life.

Ancient Tools to Rescue!

From ancient wisdom of spiritual traditions and native cultures, we can learn easy, effective techniques to dissolve our old beliefs-and intense emotions that go with them. At core of most meditative practices is guidance to feel human emotions as pure energy, sensation or vibration-without labels and names we usually use to identify them, without need to understand, intellectualize or categorize them. Labels create resistance and confine us to feeling experience inside box named by label. If we welcome "e- motions" as "energy in motion"-flowing sensations, pulsating vibrations-we can release our death grip on our belief system and allow our old limiting paradigms and self-images to transform.

Then every day becomes a good day to die-to our outmoded ways of thinking and living. We can clear our soul of karma, trauma and drama blocking our natural trust, openness and vitality. We can release ourselves from past influences and present-day self- defeating patterns. We can live and love freely again. We can recover our natural aliveness, creativity and playfulness in order to heal, grow and blossom. We can reclaim wholeness, meaning and joy. We can complete past, fully enjoy present and creatively open to future.

People in touch with ancient and native wisdom know that dying is simply a transition to another state of existence-a state of light energy. At this time, we are experiencing a worldwide transition as light energy infuses entire planet and all of its inhabitants. If we label these feelings "dying," "depressing" or " scary," we will experience energy within that label framework. If we experience these same feelings as "flowing" " dense sensation" or "exciting," we can surf tides of transformation. Ancient and indigenous wisdom teaches that by embracing and moving with unlabeled vibrational energy, we experience life's changes more easily, playfully and quickly. When we master our emotions, we master Death. When we master Death, we master our happiness!

Does He Know Something We Don't?

Mahatma Gandhi suggests:

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Why not assume next moment-the next life-will always come along? What do we have to lose? Only fear. What do we have to gain? Every gift each moment has to offer!

A New Year's toast to you:

Here's to a new year, new life, new moments, new horizons, new possibilities, new joys!

To top it off, angel in guise of a woman generously purposes, "If you ever want to go out of town at same time we do, it's fine. We'll call our old pet sitter. Feel free to travel any time you want." I get freedom and flexibility I longed for.

DREAM ON!

The more I prove to myself that my emotions—my "kids"—are what limit my dreams, more I free myself to change my life. As I find compassionate and creative ways to acknowledge, love and embrace my kids, my kids get out of way of me getting what I want.

HOW TO GET ANYTHING YOU WANT

1. Set a clear intention of what you want. 2. Feel and release all obstructing emotions. 3. Take a step towards your intention. Repeat Step 2 until your intention manifests. 4. Receive, enjoy and celebrate your dream.

MY 4 STEP JOURNEY TO PARADISE

1. I intended to get a peaceful living space and a job with more freedom and flexibility. 2. I felt invalidating feelings (doubt, sadness, fear of disappointment) to release their obstructing influence to discourage and dissuade me (I'll never find a better job and place to live). 3. I take next step towards my dream and place ad. I repeat Step 2 until invalidating feelings (I don't deserve it, I'm going to fail) release and my intention shows up. 4. I receive a better job and place to live. I celebrate with a hike in my very expanded new space.

WE'VE ONLY JUST BEGUN . . .

. . . to live. Once kids aren't running our lives any longer, we naturally begin to open more to our spiritual gifts and abilities—and to our intuition. As we listen to our intuition regarding how to use our abilities, we are more successful in making our dreams come true—and in having bigger and more satisfying dreams.

How can you create even bigger dreams? Your intuition gives you suggestions of details that can assist you to reach for stars.

As you ask your intuition for guidance, answers will come that specifically address your questions. Moving beyond generalized questions like, "Should I offer my ability in this situation?" to asking very focused questions, speeds up process of getting what you want. Some suggestions would be asking questions which assist you to discern most appropriate ways to use your talents such as: with whom should you work? how much you should do or say? and, what is proper timing (when and how long do you spend with them)? Before I ran my ad, I asked, "Which newspaper will produce best results?" and "What words shall I put in my ad that will attract situation I want?" The more details you ask, more guidance you'll receive.

The next step to succeeding then becomes to TAKE ACTION on what your intuition suggests. I've found that nothing happens after I received answers to my questions when I don't DO what my intuition suggests!

For many years I've hiked cross-country through desert. Often my intuition guides me on new adventures following animal trails. And just as often I find trail disappears into a impassible hodgepodge of scratchy weeds, prickly cacti and thorny trees that stretches for hundreds of feet. As I approach ominous barrier, kids scream, "You're going wrong way!" "You're gonna get hurt!" And, their favorite, "You'll die from a rattlesnake bite, and nobody will ever find your body!" (The kids can really become restless when I don't follow main path!) I've also discovered that when I'm following my intuition, there is usually an easy way through or around "obstacle." So, I accept and feel energy motions of kids and walk up to barrier—all way up. The kids implore me to stop short. If I stop short, I mostly end up backtracking, wasting time and energy and growing weary from effort. And, I've discovered that when I DO what my intuition suggests, I find next trail and become energized by adventure. If I stop short, I won't see opening, way through.

Going all way with your intuition holds true for creating dreams too. If you don't TAKE ACTION on suggestions of your intuition, you won't find opening—you won't get what you really want.

By finding ways to move through obstacles that would keep you from your dreams and by opening to and following your intuition, you prove to yourself that you can get anything you want!

Sulana Stone, personal life coach, vision quest guide and animal communicator, assists people to discover and express their life purpose through private sessions and workshops. She provides hot tips and fresh articles for people who want more love in life, yearn for a more fulfilling job, or seek a purpose beyond the mundane in a FREE Prosperity Ezine at www.SedonaVisionQuest.com. Contact sulana@redvetteranch.com or 602.861.2631.