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author resource box at end is included. Notification of publication would be appreciated.Title: Managing Fear Author: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. E-mail: mailto:margaret@innerbonding.com Copyright: © 2003 by Margaret Paul Web Address: http://www.innerbonding.com Word Count: 1168 Category: Emotional Healing
MANAGING FEAR By Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
Our society is challenged as never before. Anxiety fills air so thick we can feel it around us. Our sense of safety has been undermined, and along with it our sense of control.
We lived under illusion of control for so long that we may have come to believe in it. We may have believed we were, for most part, in charge of our external safety - if only we drove carefully or didn’t walk in dangerous areas, and so on.
That illusion of control has been pulled out from under us and many of us are left with knots of anxiety. How do we feel safe in such an unsafe world when death could come out of nowhere?
In reality, our external safety is never assured because we are mortal beings whose bodies can be harmed. To think otherwise is to maintain a belief in controlling others and external events that does not exist, and never has existed.
The anxiety will continue until we can tap into our personal spiritual guidance, our source of love, wisdom and compassion that is always available to all of us. While we cannot move beyond caring about safety of our bodies, we need to move more into caring about safety of our souls.
Now, more than ever, we need to be able to turn to a reliable spiritual process for our sense of safety.
Would you feel scared of you were able to tap into a reliable source of spiritual wisdom to guide you in your decisions regarding when to get on a plane, when to stay away from a public place? If you knew that this guidance was available each and every moment, would you be so anxious?
The guidance is here, always. The challenge is to access it.
Spiritual guidance vibrates at a higher frequency than we do, so challenge is to raise our own frequency. The secret to raising our frequency lies in our intent. In Inner Bonding process that I teach, there are only two possible intents: to protect against responsibility for our own feelings and behavior through some form of controlling behavior, or to learn about loving ourselves and others.
Positive feelings such as love, compassion, acceptance, joy and peace raise frequency, while negative feelings such as anger, anxiety, depression, judgment, and shame lower it. Processed, greasy, sugary and pesticide-laden foods also lower our frequency. There are many experiences that can assist us in raising our frequency, such as meditating, praying, being in nature, practicing yoga and other breathing techniques, or listening to beautiful music. However, none of these will raise your frequency high enough to access spiritual guidance unless your deepest desire in moment - your intent - is to learn about loving yourself. Loving yourself does not mean being selfish. It means learning to take full responsibility for your own health and well-being. Learning to love yourself means learning to take those actions that support your joy, peace, and health.
When you ask your guidance (which can be your experience of God, or a light, a presence, a guardian angel, a mentor or teacher in spirit, or highest part of yourself), "What is most loving to me in this moment? What is in my highest good?" you automatically raise your frequency and open door to your personal spiritual guidance. Once your intention is to learn about loving yourself and you are willing to take loving action you are guided to do, then all other ways of raising frequency may be of help to you.
