Fear Sells...

Republished from Patricia Robinett @ Blogspot

Sex Sells? So Does Fear!

"What I feared has come upon me; what I dreaded has happened to me," said Job. "I have no peace, no quietness; I have no rest, but only turmoil.”

Fear, my friends, is hell in a nutshell. There need be no greater hell than fear and dread.

Problem is, when we feel threatened, we stiffen and hold our breath and suddenly -- there is that dog – right there – that one! -- and he wants to bite us! – and he does bite us! On the other hand, when we feel safe and easy and we are breathing fully and freely and deeply, the same dog wags his tail and licks our hand.

When we feel safe, when we choose peace, the world is a safer place. And we send out a powerful signal that we are safe. What we feel, we draw to us; this law is bigger than human laws. People can break human laws, but no one can break this law. What we feel, we draw to us. It behooves us to entertain only the thoughts and feelings we truly want to see show up in our lives.

Today the New York Times editorial, "Our Unnecessary Insecurity" lists numerous things we should fear, including power plants, chemical plants, nuclear plants, ports, borders, and others. How do we find peace of mind when even editorials entitled "Our Unnecessary Insecurity" tries to sell us on the idea that there are many things we need to fear?

The colors of fear and dread cover a narrow range of the palette of life and if we paint our lives from that limited area, the quality of our lives diminishes greatly. How to find and choose personal peace in the midst of seeming chaos?

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1933 inaugural address. How very kind he was to his own audience, to put fear into perspective.

Threat is not a constant. Threat is a very infrequent thing. Let’s definitely take care of things that need attention. If our power plants, transportation systems, etc need repair, let’s take care of them. Let’s talk to our legislators, the administration, about things that are important to take care of in our own backyard. It’s only wise to take care of business. And while we’re doing that, let’s also take care of ourselves.

“Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and Wisdom to know the difference.”

Let’s practice reminding ourselves that we not bodies, that we are spiritual beings having a temporary human experience. We’re not the characters; we are actors in costume. We’re get caught up in the drama and trauma of this very convincing walkie-talkie, smellie, touchie, tastie, feelie, 3-D – and more -- movie, being thrown hither and yon by fear and dread, when all along there is a still, small, quiet, private place inside our hearts where peace has never left. All we need do is remind ourselves we are safe here and now. No matter how the movie ends, the lights will come on at the end, we will stand up and walk out, safe and sound and sane.

Let's practice choosing peace here and now, no matter what is happening in external circumstances. Peace is your natural condition. To get back to the peace that you are, you’ll simply need to ignore the conditioning, the temptation, the manipulation to latch on to fear and follow a one-way, downhill, dead-end road to adrenalin exhaustion.

The bonus of choosing peace here and now in this moment, in your heart, is that the more you choose peace, the more you will attract peace to yourself. Your feelings are magnets and you can use them to draw to you whatever you wish. Do you wish to attract more threat? Or do you wish to attract more ease, safety? Take a moment right now and choose peace. How do you choose peace? It’s in your own heart. Just say, “I choose peace.” String those golden moments together and your life will start looking better and better.

When it comes to our internal climate, our own personal peace of mind, no one can do it for us. It's an inside job. Only we can choose peace for ourselves when there is so much clamor in the opposite direction. No one is going to hand us peace of mind. But how? How do we find peace of mind in very troubled times? How do we find peace of mind when the media is selling us fear, daily? “I choose peace.”

Hints for today:

1) How immediate is the threat? Do I need to run now? Or can I sit for a moment? Can I breathe?

2) Ask yourself: “What would be the worst possible outcome?”

3) Where in your body do you tense up when you think that thought? Chest? Stomach? Shoulders? Head?

4) Put all – all! -- your awareness on that area. If there’s more than one, take care of one area at a time.

4) Allow your natural breath to move in and out. Breathing into the tension in that area.

5) Tell yourself, "In this moment, here and now, I am safe." You can honestly tell yourself that, because 99.999999% of the time we are all safe. How rare true danger is!

Wishing you all the best!

Love, patricia
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About Patricia Robinett:

Renaissance woman Clinical Hypnotherapist in Eugene, Oregon, author of "As the Waters Cover the Sea" and "Rape of Innocence", teacher, speaker, healer, Patricia Robinett is comfortable wearing many hats. She has always been curious about a variety of subjects, loves a mystery, and consequently asks a lot of probing questions into every area of life.

Patricia is the author of two published books with several more in the works. She is an award-winning visual artist who now designs books and websites for herself and others. She invented an ingenious, technical tool that accurately measures the complex geometry of an astrological chart with a companion workbook. She has written numerous published magazine articles. As a clinical hypnotherapist, she has functioned as a past lives therapist for over 18 years. She has led study groups on metaphysics for the same amount of time. - Ezine Articles

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The Search For Meaning - ACIM lessons

The inspiration behind this blog entry is a very interesting channel I found on youtube.

The channel is ACIM esstentials featuring Auntie Patricia (Patricia Robinett)

Here's
Auntie Patricia on 'Meaning versus Meaninglessness', ACIM Lesson 004.




People all through the ages have been searching for the 'meaning of life'.

I don't think this 'meaning' has been found. Because I'm not sure there exists any 'absolute meaning' in the realm of the mind.

The 'meaning of life' cannot be some complicated network of mental concepts.

The intellectual route in the search for 'meaning' is not wrong, but will eventually take one to the point where all 'meaning' will dissolve...into nothing...


I believe that the moment meaninglessness is seen clearly.
Is the moment in which MEANING will show itself.
Clearly.

The ACIM route into the realm of true meaning, via the dissolution of the 'meaningless meaning' we attribute to things and events: 1. Nothing I see means anything. 2. I have given everything I see all the meaning it has for me. 3. My thoughts do not mean anything. 4. My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.

I currently believe, that the absolute, self evident meaning, when it is finally seen clearly, will be accompanied by the dissolution of the mind, signifying a total withdrawal from worldly affairs. And the mind that can see to an extent, the meaninglessness that exists, can see, to an extent, the absolute, self evident meaning of it all.

Digging deeper into the ACIM perspective:

A. If thoughts do not have any meaning, it means that INTERPRETATIONS that thoughts give to situations rising in the surroundings are absurd and meaningless.

Further...memories are also thoughts. When a memory comes, it comes as a thought.

If statement A. is true, it follows that mental movies that pretend to be memories are not really memories, but are pretending to be memories. And their content is also the same - absurd and meaningless. And this takes me to my post on CARL JUNG's commentary on 'Time'.

To people who subscribe to the Advaita Vedantic perspective of MAYA, the following statement will ring true:

Meaningless thoughts from the void are projecting or generating the illusion of a meaningless world that exists only to the extent it is observed.

Quote by Ramesh Balsekar:

In the meditation for November 27 in A Net of Jewels (1996), Ramesh Balsekar says,

"Breathing goes on by itself while the deluded individual thinks it is he who is breathing. Thoughts come from outside, arising spontaneously through intervals of mental vacuum, and he thinks it is he who is thinking. The thoughts get transformed involuntarily into action, and he thinks it is he who is acting. All the while, he is doing nothing but to misconstrue the actions of the Totality as his own action."


Update 2011:

Stepping beyond conclusions & intellectual concepts, judgments, straight into the realm of pure faith...this song is very profound christian mysticism...