How do you respond to fear in your life? Here are five suggestions for building ability to respond to your world.

1. Your thoughts have power and can become manifest as your reality. Like attracts like. Are you aware of what you spend your time thinking about? You can’t create peace if you are focused on being afraid. The more you resist what you don’t agree with and argue with reality of what is, more you will contribute to what you don’t want. Learn to witness your thoughts, see them as just your thoughts, not you.

2. Become conscious of how much you are watching news and reading newspapers. Media is designed to keep you afraid, disempowered and sucked in to reacting from fear in name of keeping you informed. You chose what you feed your soul with. Is it based in love or fear?

3. Spend some time every day creating a "visionary reality” of what your world can look and feel like. Imagine a point in future and paint in details for yourself. Envision, not only your own personal environment, but also whole world.

4. Create peace and compassion from within. What are emotions that perpetuate a downward spiral of negativity directed both at you and at others? Is it blame, guilt, shame? What do you need to do, what kind of support do you need to handle this? Become a beacon of light radiant with peace. 5. Realize you make a difference. As Henry Ford said,” Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.”

As you build your ability to respond, your whole life will change and flow and feel more peaceful. Others will feel it too. As Jesus said, “Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.”

I let it begin with me; I got on that plane and felt at peace. I felt powerful that I had continued to live my life free of terrorizing thoughts that threatened to not only ruin my vacation but also have control over my life.

It’s YOUR life…imagine possibilities!

There are times when logic does need to take a back seat, for instance when we need to use our hearts in managing a misbehaving toddler. Logic and reason aren't of much use with a two year old. They also aren't of much use in figuring out big questions in life, like why bad things happen to good people.

Emotional intelligence means managing emotions so you can take action in best interest of all concerned. This also requires using your thinking brain!

To learn more about emotional intelligence, go here: http://www.susandunn.cc/EQ.htm