MUSE-INGS: “Breathe. Focus on the Light. Breathe Again.” by Rosemary Bredeson

December 14, 2010 — Rosemary

Sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it?  So is this all it takes to live life with gusto?

The answer is ‘yes.’  Isn’t that wild?  Everything in your life doesn’t have to be perfect.  You don’t have to have the perfect partner, job, home, health.  You just have to breathe with a focus on the Light.  I have a friend who is losing her sight and she has the most amazing ability to smile and joke and talk about clothes.  I just love being around her because she is living life with such gusto – without sight but WITH gusto.  Think how much easier life is for us with our eyesight intact and yet SHE is living with gusto.  Are you?

It’s a decision.  You can choose how to look at your life.  You can feel sorry for yourself or you can look for something about which you can feel gratitude.  You can say ‘Woe is me’ or you can say ‘Whee!  Ain’t life grand?’  Which will you say today?

Remember that life isn’t about what happens to you.  It’s about how you respond to what happens to you.  When something seems to trip you up how do you respond?  Do you look for the opportunities in the situation or do you whine?  Does whining ever get you what you want?  I believe that opportunities abound for us to grow and to explore and to learn but whining and feeling sorry for ourselves keeps us blocked from the growth, exploration or lesson.

In my life I am all about learning the lesson as quickly and easily as I can.  I try to avoid 2 by 4s to the head so I constantly scan the horizon looking for lessons.  I want to live life with gusto so I am grateful for the opportunities to learn that I discover along the way.  I smile so that I might lift up another person’s day.  And in that experience I find I am the one who is uplifted.

Think of the cultures who enjoy life with a richness and fullness to that enjoyment.  The Italians, for example, have a wonderful saying – ‘Dolce far niente,’ which means ‘How sweet to do nothing.’   Sitting with friends, enjoying some wine, doing nothing.  It all adds up to living life with gusto.  Do you give yourself permission to do nothing?  Are you taking time to really enjoy yourself?

You don’t have to take a big vacation or be doing something spectacular to be excited about your life.  Take pleasure in the little things in the moment.  Enjoy the bite of food that is in your mouth.  Smile at the person you are passing in the corridor or speaking with on the phone.  Look out the window and enjoy what you are seeing.  Choose in this moment to relish whatever the reality of this moment might be.  Be grateful that you can breathe.  Be happy that there are other people around you who are in your life for a reason.  Enjoy the moment without judgment or perfectionism but just as this moment is unfolding for you.  This is what living life with gusto means.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: “Are you living life with gusto?”

December 14, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

Life is to be lived with great gusto! Where is your enthusiasm for your life? Are you starting and ending each day with gratitude for your blessings or are you focusing on what is not working for you or on what you lack? It is difficult to find the gusto if you can only see what is missing in your life.

Every breath that you take is a miracle of Life. You are living on Planet Earth at this very moment because your Soul chooses to have you experience this time, the place you are standing and the people around you in this present moment. How wonderful it is that you are even able to receive these words!

Give yourself permission to enjoy your next inhalation. Focus on your breath for a moment. In. Out. In again. Out again. Be grateful that you can breathe. Think of all those around you who are also breathing and be grateful that they are in your life. Even those with whom you are not well pleased are in your life so that they might help you to learn lessons so be grateful for the opportunity to learn.

Look around you today with a sense of wonder, of curiosity, with gratitude for everything that is around you. Smile, for your smile will raise the vibration of the air around you and will bring a higher vibration energy to all those who see you smile. Ask yourself what you can do to keep yourself comfortable while raising your vibration and sharing that higher frequency with the world. You might find that you are moving beyond your so-called ‘comfort zone’ to do this but you will quickly become more comfortable with a higher frequency energy and this will catapult you into higher and higher levels of satisfaction with your life.

Does this make sense to you? Lifting your vibrational level brings you more satisfaction with your life. Your life doesn’t have to change to be more satisfying – you do. And once you realize that this is true you will have more control over your life. Change how you see the world around you. Are you sorting for what is wrong or are you enjoying what is simply there? Are you focusing on lack or are you reveling in the gifts that abound? It is all about your perception of reality, for you create your reality with your attitude toward your life. Even if facts and data don’t change you can change your feelings, your attitudes and your perceptions.

Start by noticing your language. Are you celebrating with excitement what is in your life in this moment or are you allowing your thoughts to carry you away from the celebration that is available to you? How are you speaking about this moment? When you become aware of your language you can easily change what you are saying so that you language what you wish to feel. The half-empty glass can make you feel less celebratory than the half-full glass, so make a decision right now that you will see the glass as half-full.

Speak of higher vibration thoughts when you talk to others and you can help them to feel more excitement, too. Focus on The Light in the World, not on the darkness. Focus on what is beautiful and exciting and wonder-full in the world and your energy will be infectious. It is okay to infect others with enthusiasm and this happens naturally when you are living your life with gusto!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: “Practice Making Conscious Choices!” by Rosemary Bredeson

December 7, 2010 — Rosemary

Choices.  Choices.  Choices.

Sometimes it feels as if we have too many choices and at other times that we have no choice.  It really does help to move up above a situation so that we can gain a bigger vantage point and see that there are always choices to make.  When we focus so narrowly on only one possible path, seeing only one possible choice, we limit ourselves and can feel powerless over our lives.

The first step in improving a situation like this is to pause and breathe.  Taking a deep breath actually moves our internal state into one that can see beyond the tiny perspective we have when we are holding our breath or breathing in a shallow manner.  So take a deep breath now to remind yourself how it feels.

Then allow yourself to metaphorically step back from the situation and look for the list of all possibilities, include those you might laugh at because they seem so outrageous.  Go ahead and laugh but put those outrageous possibilities on the list.  Then keep listing options until even the outrageous ones are exhausted.  This keeps you moving beyond feeling powerless and into a bigger energy.

How do you make a choice from among the list of possibilities?  Do you have a system that you have been using?  How is that working for you?  Do you feel confident in your choices?

For some people, the best choice is to delay making a choice.  Some people need time and space for decisions to percolate within them.  Others need to discuss the options because they process better by talking than by sitting alone and thinking about them.  Some might flip a coin or ask a trusted advisor.  What is your system?

If whatever you’ve tried in the past doesn’t give you great confidence in the decisions you make now, try a different system.  If you’ve relied on the past in working it out by yourself, why not try discussing a choice you have to make with someone else?  If you’re used to asking for advice, why don’t you try examining your choice from every angle by yourself first?  If you’ve never tried dowsing, why not get out a pendulum or consult oracle cards or try some other divination tool?

The point is to try a new approach to bring you into a consciousness about making choices in your life.  You are always at a point of choice if you allow yourself to see your life that way.  Learning to see your choices and to get in touch with your own empowered inner self leads you to become stronger in making those choices.

Find the Confident You by practicing your decision-making skills from a place of empowerment.  Notice how many choices you make in a day and then become conscious of every choice.  Are you ordering the same thing for lunch every day or can you make a different choice?  How about that Starbucks order – are you consciously choosing that latte or are you doing it out of habit?  What about the route you are driving – is it the one your intuition is leading you to drive or are you ignoring that inner signal to go a different way today?  Follow that inner guide.  Make each choice count today.

You will find that confidence depends on the skills you exercise in making choices, big and small.  Practice different skills to build your confidence.  Make conscious choices starting NOW!

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MUSE-INGS: Give Yourself the “All-Clear” Signal by Rosemary Bredeson

November 9, 2010 — Rosemary

It is so important to remember to breathe when we feel distressed!  And certainly being surrounded by stress, strife, discord, anger and hatred will make us feel distressed!

What do you do when you feel the atmosphere around you becoming charged with energy that doesn’t resonate with you?  Do you try to fight back? Do you remove yourself from the situation?  Do you try to change the situation in some other way?

For most of us, the desire arises to make a change in a charged situation, but you must start to examine what you are trying to accomplish.  For some people, their desired outcome is to achieve harmony, keep the peace, end the discord because it feels so uncomfortable when the energy is that discordant.  For others, they want to jump into the discord and ‘duke it out’ until things are resolved, loving the fight as much as they love to win.  And some people choose to remove themselves, allowing the situation to resolve or not independently of their participation.  Do you know your own style when you are feeling that a situation around you has grown uncomfortable?

We must all become more aware of the energies around us.  We feel them but we do not always take the time to identify and classify what we are feeling.  Energy is just energy.  It is not inherently negative or positive, good or bad.  We can, however, judge it compatible or incompatible with our own energy field.  And how much work are you willing to do to clear your own energy field of all the energy that is not compatible with you?

Here is the work for today’s human being – clear the energies.  Clear your own field first, clear your environment, work to clear the Earth of energies that do not sustain her.  If you do not know how to clear energy, then learn, for this skill is needed immediately to keep you healthy and moving forward in your development.  I’ve worked with many clients who simply need to have someone else’s energy attachments removed from their energy field in order that they might feel stronger and clearer.  Carrying around someone else’s energy, especially if it is severely discordant with your own, can drain you and eventually even make you sick.  Removing the influence of that incompatible energy can have an amazing effect on how you feel.

And I’ve worked with clients where, as soon as we did this clearing work, other people could sense that something had happened.  This is not to judge others, for energy cords are usually unconscious attachments, but this clearing can be powerful for both parties because each person is holding only their own energy afterward.

When you get caught up in discordant energies around – for example, when people are fighting or there is a backbiting situation at work – then it becomes difficult for you to be in your own energetic space, clear about the vibrations that are compatible with you.  Do what it takes to clear your own energy field.  Allow in only that which is compatible with the energetic level that you wish to experience.  You CAN be in charge of your own energy field if you are just conscious about it!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Find that place of peace within!

November 8, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

When there is strife in a culture then people lose their way to the Light.  Dealing with friction takes so much energy from a population that many forget how to be at peace within themselves.  We hope you learn that finding a place of peace within your inner being is the only way to reduce strife and friction in the world around you.

When is the last time that you felt fully at peace?  Do you remember how to arrive at that place whenever you wish?  If you do not know how to find a place of peace within you then you must first practice conscious breathing.  Start by deciding to breathe deeply.  Yes, it is the decision that starts the process.  Once you have made this decision you must focus all your attention on your breath.  Follow the in-breath down into the depths of your body.  Allow the out-breath to take with it any tension from your body.  Begin this process with a focus on relaxing your body before you try to still the mind and relax your mental processes, for it is by following your breath that you will reach a point where your thoughts can begin to release and ease.

After you have relaxed into your breathing you can create a visualization to help you find a place of inner peace.  If you do not usually see pictures when you do a process like visualization, you might try to create a feeling or a sound or some kind of sensory experience of a place that feels peaceful within you.  Once you have created a place to go to in your mind where you feel totally at peace, then you can return here whenever you are caught up in the feelings of friction that might surround you.

Sometimes it is just by knowing that you have an alternative to the world around you, even if it is created in your imagination, that can give you confidence in your ability to withstand the energies that bombard you each day.  For you must understand that you ARE being bombarded by all sorts of energies every day.  We are not speaking here just of the energies in the airwaves around you, although there can be ill effects to some sensitives from the electromagnetic energies that permeate the atmosphere.  We are also saying that each individual that you encounter in a given day is giving off an energy or energies, some of which are not in consonance with your vibrational level. When you are living a Conscious Life, you must become aware of your energy situation at all times.

Being conscious of your energy situation requires that you understand that everything is energy – your body, your chair, your computer, your thoughts.  Everything you touch in a day has an energy and you leave your imprint on that item as it leaves an energy imprint on you.  Every person with whom you come into contact is also creating/receiving an energy imprint in that interaction.  Adding this to the thoughts that you generate in a day shows how much energy is actually being inserted into your personal space.  When you listen to disturbing news or have a painful interaction with another person, or when you have a delightful exchange with someone you love, you are shifting your energy signature in the world to reflect that interaction.  Become conscious of this energy situation so that you can learn to clear your own energy and disconnect from someone else’s.  In this way you can avoid becoming a part of the strife or friction around you.

Learn techniques to help you with this.  If you need help, work with someone who understands these energy situations.   Go often to the place inside you where you can feel peace so that you can radiate that energy around you.

And remember to breathe!

And so it is.

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MUSE-INGS: Choose your focus – and laugh?

August 3, 2010 — Rosemary

Focus on the beauty?  Not so easy to do when things are looking bleak or when our attention takes us down a rabbit-hole into the space where everything is ugly.

But have you ever noticed how, when you DO focus on something besides ugliness, you can actually feel uplifted?  Have you ever been really down and had a little child come up and give you a hug?  There is true beauty in that hug, even if it’s full of mud or comes with a bouquet of weeds.  Or have you been feeling sorry for yourself, feeling lonely, and had a friend call out of the blue and invite you out?

We really can control our thoughts when we become aware of our power over them.  We all have knee-jerk reactions to situations or problems or even joy.  Becoming Aware [with a capital ‘A’] means learning to assess those knee-jerk reactions and making a conscious decision about how to act next.  A thought does not have to hold us in its grip without letting go if we choose not to allow it.

Sometimes thoughts do come unbidden into our consciousness but the important thing to learn is to process the thought and ask:

What is this?
Is this true for me now?
Is it in my highest good to hold onto this thought at this time?

Unbidden thoughts often stem from our insecurities and they masquerade as the reality of the moment but we must ask ourselves if they are actually true in that moment.  We can worry all we want about the next tornado or earthquake or hurricane but if the sun is shining now isn’t that what is real?  Isn’t that where we can find the beauty?  We can always worry about something that might happen but if it is not true in this moment then there is something else to look at, to think about, something else on which to focus our attention.

Look around you today and see if you are focusing on the thoughts that are uplifting or if you are attaching to those thoughts that bring you down, that distract you from the beauty of the day.  Even if you are wrestling with a problem today, can you find something of beauty to think of for a moment?  Scientists are now saying that smiling can make us feel happy – it’s not just the other way around!  Try looking in the mirror when you are focusing on problems and force yourself to smile.  I guarantee that you will either laugh at the way you look when you are worrying and/or laugh at the way you look when you force a smile.  That single laugh will shift your body’s energy and allow the Light to come through in that moment.

That is an important shift, for allowing the Light to shine also brings with it resources that better equip you to find a solution to your problem.  You are more resourceful with the Light in you than when you shroud yourself in darkness.

So go ahead and let your thoughts drift across the sky of your mind while you choose which ones on which to focus your attention.  And if you need help, remember to look in the mirror and laugh a beautiful laugh!

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MUSE-INGS: Oh, how tempting a tantrum can be!

July 13, 2010 — Rosemary

Aren’t there times when you would really like to throw yourself onto the floor and bang your fists while kicking your feet and screaming at the top of your lungs?  Who of us hasn’t seen a little one doing just this and envied them their ability to drop down to the floor in the middle of a department store and let their feelings out?

I remember stepping over my daughter when she threw her tantrums, allowing her to cry herself out.  She got so smart that she would move to a room with a carpet on the floor so that she wasn’t throwing herself down onto a hard kitchen or foyer floor where the tantrum wasn’t so comfortable!

But most adults have eschewed such behavior.  Or have we, really?  Maybe we don’t get down on the floor but do we shut down and ignore others when we are doing our ‘adult pout’?  Do we ‘accidentally’ say or do something that causes hurt to another when what we really want to do is throw ourselves on the floor and scream at the unfairness of it all?

Being honest with yourself, can you see a way in which you might still have some of the strategies you developed as a child working in your life today?  It’s easy to wish that the world was fair – which it is because we all get our share of lessons, some easy, some difficult — and that everyone around us treated us exactly the way we wished they would – which might be easier if we didn’t expect them all to be mind readers.  So what do we do if we find a coping mechanism at work in our life that we no longer desire to choose?

The best strategy to develop is what I call ‘The Pause Button.’  Can you learn to catch yourself reaching into your unconscious database and pulling out an inappropriate response?  Hit The Pause Button so you can be conscious about your choice of reaction/behavior.  This is what the old ‘count to 10’ maxim is all about.  Pause.  Reflect.  Act consciously.

As we move through life we are giving challenges to our personal growth and how we react to stimulus is one of the ongoing life lessons with which we must learn to deal.  What challenges do you face that you must find resources to handle?  Who in your life is bringing you practice lessons in finding your ‘Pause Button’?  And who knows exactly how to ‘push your buttons’ so that you find it nearly impossible to pause?

Challenges are with us.  Our response to challenges can change with each encounter.  Living a Conscious Life requires that we learn to grow through all our experiences.  We’re not allowed to throw ourselves onto the floor and do a tantrum anymore, even when that unconscious little child within is begging to be allowed to do just that.  Find another way.  Think about it now and tell your unconscious mind to latch onto the new, preferred response before it goes back to childhood memories and chooses that old strategy.  Plan to hit ‘The Pause Button’ when somebody pushes your other buttons.  Breathe and consider.  And make sure that your new choice isn’t just an adult form of that toddler’s tantrum on the carpet!

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MUSE-INGS: Reach Inside and Remember Joy Today!

June 15, 2010 — Rosemary

The word ‘Joy’ brings up such wonderful thought-pictures, doesn’t it?  Think of a child and the Joy that child can find by delighting in such little things.  A small child doesn’t wake up feeling dread about the day to come.  That child is steeped in wonder as the day unfolds. Squatting down to watch some ants or a caterpillar on the sidewalk.  Blowing bubbles through a straw into a drink.  Running through a sprinkler in the summer or building a snowman in the winter. There is a certain Joy in being a carefree kid, isn’t there?

But then we lose that. We start school and worry about bullies and tests and book reports and best friends.  We’re afraid of the boogey man or the report card or the team coach. We start to live with disappointment and concern and fear and we forget how to be filled with Joy.

What happens to us? And who is there to teach us to go inside to find the Joy that puts all the outer circumstances into perspective?

I think we learn through the anxieties of adults around us that Joy is something that waits in the wings while we are living ‘life’ – standing by until there is a carefree moment again in which to experience Joy.  We’re allowed to feel that at our wedding, at the birth of a child, at a graduation.  But it’s reserved for big moments in our lives, not for everyday existence.  There is always something to do, something to get out of the way before we can relax and be Joy-full.

What if we decided to turn that all around and to seek Joy FIRST?  What if, right now, today, you decide that Joy comes first and then you’ll face everything else?  Do you think that you can do that?

If Joy is a decision, if Joy is something that you go inside to find, then why put off that search? What if, at this moment, you gave yourself permission to pause, to take a couple of deep breaths, to go inside no matter what is happening around you or what you have to face today, and you asked to connect to your inner Joy, even if only for a few minutes?  Why not try that right now?

It might be easier if you think of someone or something that brings you Joy and makes you smile, but it’s not difficult to find a moment of Joy inside.  And once you have touched it, bring that outside with you and look through the lens of Joy at what is going on, at what you must do today.

No matter what is happening, or how people are behaving around you, Joy is within you.  You ARE connected to Source, whether you are remembering that at the moment or not.  You can be busy and still have Joy inside you.  You can be happy and still have Joy inside you.  And you can be sad or upset and still have Joy inside you.

Too often we think that life must be a bowl of cherries all the time so that we can smile.  I’ve had people comment to me that we don’t understand because our lives are so great.  Yes, I have many blessings in my life but I’ve also had heartaches and problems. I just have chosen to define myself and my life by what is good about it.  I have chosen to meditate, to tap into something greater than myself so that my perspective comes from the ‘meta’ level, above the strife of everyday life. I see the patterns unfolding and I trust that the Universe has a Plan and that the Plan is unfolding as it must. And I remind myself that Joy comes from within.

You can reach that Joy no matter what your life looks like at the moment.  You are a timeless, spiritual being having a physical lifetime on Planet Earth so that you can learn lessons.  Some of those lessons are not as much fun to learn as others.  These lessons are a part of living a human life. But there is always Joy within you. There is always the spirit of the Inner You who remembers the connection to Source and to the Joy within.

Reach inside and remember Joy today!

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE: What’s on your to-do list?

June 7, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

How many items are on your to-do list at this time?  Do you have the items prioritized?  And what do you consider the most important item on the list – something for your work, your family, your finances?  Or your spiritual development?

Let us suggest that you consider your spiritual development as foundational to all your other values and priorities.  When you think about your work, do you think about it as something separate from who you are as a spiritual person?  It is not separate.  You are first and foremost a spiritual being having a physical lifetime on Planet Earth and your work FOLLOWS from this – it is not the other way around.  Furthermore, your spiritual work IS your work, so you really cannot separate the two.

Many of you reading this will think that we are talking about religion here but that is not so.  It matters not which religion, if any, that you choose to practice.  Your being a spiritual person is more about the eternal, timeless you than about what you do [religion].  Think of the essence of yourself as being the spiritual you.  You are timeless, eternal.  You are greater than any of the circumstances in your life at the present time.  You are greater than the people who surround you, who like you, love you, don’t like you, help you, hurt you, ignore you.  You are also greater than the job that you perform in the world.  Your work in the world is to further your personal growth, to expand the consciousness of the spiritual being that you are in your essence.

All of your other priorities flow from this work of personal growth.  The more you work on yourself, the more you are able to help others to do so.  A person who does not do this personal work cannot offer support to others who are doing so.  Have you ever met someone who is so self-absorbed that they cannot hear you and what you are saying to them because they are focused only on how they feel, what they want or what they think/believe?  These people are not living a Conscious Life.  They are not on a path of personal spiritual growth, and they cannot help you on your path.  If you are connected to someone like this ask yourself if this person is assisting you in growing or if your association is hindering you in your own growth.  Your growth in consciousness needs to be your top priority.

Can you see whatever your work in the world might be at this time as an expression of your own personal spiritual growth?  It does not matter if you are working in an office with a lot of other people or working alone at home.  Perhaps your job is one that you hope one day to leave but, for some reason, you are still in that job.  Consider that you might be there because the circumstances or the people are offering you a laboratory, a classroom, in which you can learn lessons vital to your personal growth.  You might also be the vehicle through which others are learning their own lessons.

If you love your work, are you helping others because of your own spiritual growth?  Are others helping you to progress?  If your work is fulfilling, is it because it causes you to feel expanded, to feel your own growth through that work?  And if it is not fulfilling, what aspect is missing?  Could it be that you feel stagnant, that you cannot grow in this situation?

When you look at your family, are they supportive of your personal growth, the expansion of your consciousness or do you feel restricted by them?  Are you eager to share what you are learning through the lessons in your life or do you fear being rebuffed and thus stay closed-mouth or shut down?

Ask yourself how you feel about focusing your attention on your own spiritual growth.  Are you comfortable making this your number one priority?  Can you see how your work, your family, even your finances, are the result of your work on yourself and are not to be separated into compartments that do not connect with each other?

Now get your priorities arranged so that you can do that number one item on the list.  Focus on your personal growth first and you will be able to prioritize all the other items on the list easily.  Expand your own awareness and you will bring more resources to solving the problems inherent in all the other items on your to-do list.

Remember that you came into this lifetime to learn lessons.  When you focus on learning your own lessons, you increase the resources you have to share with others who are also learning lessons.  Fulfill your goals to expand yourself and all your other goals will be accomplished.  Make sure you do not put your own personal growth work at the bottom of the priority list – just get it done!

And so it is.

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THIS WEEK’S MYSTIC MESSAGE from The Divine Feminine: Feeling fear? It’s only a signal to help you live a Conscious Life!

May 17, 2010 — Rosemary

Dear Ones,

There is so much fear in the world in the 21st Century!  We are concerned that some of you know ONLY the feeling of fear, not joy or happiness or peace or contentment.  We wish that you could learn to dispel the fear that arises within you.

Here is why this is so important for you.  Fear is a very limiting emotion.  It causes you to create for yourself scenarios of disaster that have not yet occurred and your body and mind react to these fabrications of doom.  Your physical body must generate chemicals in response to the images that you conjure up in your imagination because that is its job, even though those images are imagined and not real.  Fear is a response to a stimulus, often coming from outside you but sometimes from thoughts of distress that you create yourself.  And there are many who believe that if they can keep you in fear of something [anything!] then they can control you.

Our wish for you, Dear One, is that you be empowered to resist efforts to control you with fear and that you find a way to live in peace, harmony and contentment so that you can, instead, experience joy in your life.  This requires, though, that you learn to use the feeling of fear as a signal that you feel out of control about some situation about which you have expectations.  Think about that statement, for if you have expectations then you are creating possible scenarios in your mind and you are reacting to those imagined scenarios.  What if something else were to happen in the future, something other than the scary scenario that you pictured?  What good would have come from the fear that you generated for yourself?  Think about fear, whether you create it yourself or someone outside of you causes you to feel fear, as merely an indicator that you are to pause and become conscious about your current situation.  Remember, fear is an emotion created in response to thoughts, sometimes to thoughts of a future that has not materialized yet.  Your body only knows that fear means there is danger and its response to danger is to create the ‘fight or flight’ mechanism readiness in your physical body.  In the 21st Century, however, there are probably not as many life or death situations as there were millennia ago in human history.

Practice using the feeling of fear as a signal that you are to examine your current situation and the thoughts that you are having in that moment of feeling fear.  Are you fully in the present moment?  Or are you considering something that has not happened yet or that might or might not occur in the future?  Are you responding to an indicator that there is an action you must take now or are you anticipating a scenario that is not real in the present moment?

If you decide that you are truly in danger, then take the most appropriate action for that situation to remove yourself from the danger.  That is the purpose of feeling fear – an indication that there is something threatening you and you must take an action in that moment.  But considering your options and examining the perceived danger vs. the real danger is an important step in living a Conscious Life.  Are you reacting to a news report because there is an immediate danger to you in your current situation or are you reacting to an attempt to manipulate you into fear so that you will take the action that someone else wishes you to take, while they are hoping that you will not pause and consider the reality of the situation?  Move to safety if there is a tornado heading toward your home but don’t jump to a conclusion about a political situation because someone has told you a piece of information that might not be valid.

We hope that you can see the differences we have pointed out.  USE the feeling of fear to open yourself to wider vistas of possibilities and solutions, not to narrow down your thoughts to the single option proposed by someone else.  And do not be afraid to feel fear – it is a natural human emotion.  DO, however, choose to observe and examine the fear for its message so that you can keep from being controlled by that emotion.

Feel the fear and get the message being offered to you.  THEN take the appropriate action!

And so it is.

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