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Define: Fear

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What are you afraid of? Make a list of everything you’re afraid of… and why. Go on. Do it before you read any further.

What do those fears represent in your life? What do those fear reflect and affect? What do those fear say about who you are? How do you act or react to your fears? Do your fears prevent you from making decisions or encourage round-about decisions?

Fears aren’t real. We make them up. They’re illusions of what we perceive to be reality. We blatantly know that fears are not real because there are people that experience and live through our personal fears each day – commitment, responsibility, public speaking, flying, sky-diving, cliff jumping, the ocean, the dark, sleeping alone, relationships, judgments, losing, etc. We attain fear through various life experiences and distance ourselves from those fears thinking that we are succeeding by removing the problem from our life. In a universal reality, the problem still exists within self, we’re just burying a part of self in hopes that it won’t show up later in life… but it always does, doesn’t it?

  • Fear is the presence of assumption, judgment, boundary, protection, separation, manipulation, shame, and weakness.
  • Fear is the absence of knowledge, confidence, comfort, familiarity, trust, stability, awareness, responsibility, and faith.

Fears are symptoms to a greater, deeper, and more meaningful cause. Those causes are found above as the presence and absence of fear. So, go back to your list of fears and see if you can dumb them down to their true cause – to the part of you that you are protecting, running away from, and not confronting.

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National Silence Day

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Today, I declare as National Silence Day! Why today? Because why not? What is National Silence Day?

  • Take today to observe, take in, listen, understand, and reflect.
  • Avoid speaking, providing an opinion, passing judgments or assumptions, giving in your two-cents, or answering unless it is absolutely necessary.
  • Truly think before you speak, and then don’t speak at all.

Silence provides a greater learning environment to better understand self: Your experience of yourself around others and your experience of yourself through yourself. You will learn much about others through allowing them to be, to speak, to provide, to react, or to interpret without an outside influence, and you will also learn much more about yourself through the removal of you from you – you can take note of how you would react, interpret, provide, influence, or judge a situation or person.

“Those who know don’t speak,
Those who speak don’t know.” (Tzu Lao)

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Change in one easy step

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Want to change? Want to change for the better? Want to know if a desired change will be beneficial or detrimental?

Baby step

  • What is your greater goal?
  • What are the steps towards that greater goal?
  • Take one of those steps that seems realistic – that can be done on a daily-to-weekly basis
  • Incorporate that change into your life
  • Take note/write down how that change influences your mood, your personality/attitude, your relationship with self and others, your energy levels, your sleep patterns, your detoxification systems (skin, breath, sweat, bowel movements), and your overall health (as defined by you).
  • Maintain this change and keep a record of its progress or regress for at least 4-8 weeks. At the “end” point, define whether the change proves to help or hinder your life.
  • At this point you can incorporate another desired change into your life.

It’s possible to change quicker than 4-8 weeks. It’s possible to incorporate more than one change into your life at one time. It’s possible that this is too analytical of an approach. I offer this perspective as a perspective to those who want to change, to who say that they “can’t”, to who have an inner battle of wants vs. needs (last time I checked, we all have experienced these obstacles at one point in time).

Change is the only constant in our lives. Why not make it easier on yourself?

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