Dealing with Fear This lesson is going to deal with one of the TWO emotions that we as human being face as a challenge in our lives. There are truly only TWO real emotions - Love & Fear. We to easily fall pray to both emotions in inordinate ways that we have to face time and again through-out our lives. The challenge is to come to terms with what True Love means and what True Fear means. Not many of us succeed so we cross over never solving the puzzle. In Native American Spirituality this means you will have to repeat that life until you can come to a middle ground. PEACE! We pray that you have the courage to proceed with this and come out an new and risen Spirit. II. Exercises For Clarity, Integration And Strength After the immediate steps you take to release yourself from fear—such as deep breathing, it is usually helpful to become more conscious of how you were thinking before the fear took hold. Exercises are offered here to help you understand how you have been constricting yourself and your perceptions—and what is needed to set yourself free. The exercises are intended to help you uncover the beliefs, the thinking/feeling/imaging patterns which trigger your fear and to remind you of the effective ways you have dealt with fears in the past. Exercise 1. To identify your own worst fear, answer the following questions for yourself: In what areas of my life do I feel the least sense of personal power? Who or what do I give that power to? How can I take it back? Exercise 2. To explore a particular situation that is arousing much anxiety in you, say to a partner, “With regard to _____, I’m afraid that____ .” Say or write at least ten things. Take a deep breath before each statement. When you feel as though you’ve said everything there is to say, take another deep breath and say, “And most of all I’m afraid that ____!” This exercise is extremely useful in bringing clarity where there is a cloud of anxiety and confusion. The information brought forth is likely to surprise and even reassure you. Clarity as to what you have been fearing will enormously reduce the level of fear. Affirmations can be created to deal with the situation when you are clear about it. You may end up saying, “Oh, if that’s what the problem is, I know I can handle that!” Exercise 3. Some of my fears are tapes of feelings that somebody else once felt. Who? What is the story of that person’s fear? Note: For instance I can remember late at night walking down an avenue of Saratoga Race Track and picking up memories of Love and its destruction in days long since past. Where women fell in love only to realize the futility of an impossible situation that would always fail in tragedy. How would I know that this was not Of me but of what was a part of me? These real people who are long since gone left their tragic memories among the tall pines for me to pick up 100 years in the future. How was I to know that this was not of me but of what I was a part of? Experience was the answer and I knew how to remove my REAL Self from the pain and simply allow the Fear to pass through! Learn how to recognize what is You and what is not you - if you do not then I say you will suffer unnecessarily a loose not of your doing.
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