Dealing with changes we fear: our Sacred Space shrinks with anxiety, and expands with Love

[Christophe Horvath]

You may feel anxious and challenged by the changes that lie ahead, but consider the true meaning of fear:

False Expectations Appearing Real

Or also:

Frantic Effort to Avoid Reality
False Evidence Appearing Real
Forgetting Everything is All Right
False Emotions Appearing Real

The key to change is to let go of fear. Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing. Fear kills our energy, creativity and growth. Love nurtures them.

However hard, I have learnt to deal with whatever happens in my life as "perfection" - even if it may not seem pleasurable at the time - bringing me exactly the learning and experiences I need here and now to grow and thrive. Resistance and expectations are reactions of our small self. Fear is most often the little voice of the ego that wants to stay in the comfort zone.

Every time we choose safety
we reinforce fear
Cheri Huber

But how is that helping you to blossom, and how is that helping the world to enjoy the fruits of you work? Consider that the things which we fear the most in life have already happened to us. Fear is thus merely a projection of the past onto the unwritten pages of the future. How can you know what lies ahead?

Take some time to reconsider your mission, vision and values. What could the meaning of the change ahead be for you at this point in your life? What blessings could it hold for you? What opportunities for love to be grateful for?

All is Well
You are Loved

Christophe

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[Benita Treanor]

Intersting thoughts sometimes its hard to discern between risk and danger especially in the body. The fight or flight response is all about danger and risk, it requires consideration, reflection, clear thinking to overide preditermined bodily responses to either percieved danger or real danger. I find the words of Rilke helpful in my sacred journey with myself and others:
"...be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now." - Letters to a Young Poet
This asks me to wake up and notice the questions from my inner life and how that meets the actions of my outer being. I find I need sacred space and time to notice those questions, and am not always patient with myself or others whilst waiting for them to reveal themselves. Yes I agree that we can experience joy, pleasure, connection, flow and with any heros journey we aslo experience the impact of danger and fear from those who have other ideas!

[Clive Wilson]

This is uncanny Christophe. How many times do we discover that we are indeed on the same page.

I spent the last two days, as you probably know, taking my daughter Helen to Sweden for her music studies this year. On the planes and in the airport lounges I read the book When Everything Changes, Change Everything by Neale Donald Walsch. His message is completely in tune with your thoughts. Not surprisingly as we know we are all accessing the one truth.

I like the simple way he talks about how we invent a version of reality by using the data of the worst possible pasts to create a fearful future which is so inaccurate as to e almost laughable. And the affirmation I enjoyed the most is the fact that creation arises from change - we are programmed to evolve by being taken out of our comfort zones by circumstances and forced to respond. When we do so with consciousness we grow massively and what happens to our circumstance is not as important as what happens to us spiritually. Our growth and what that means for the universe is what matters.

In all this I'm beginning to realise how important it is to have presence and just trust the process. What an adventure life becomes. Truly the Hero's Journey as suggested by Joseph Campbell.

Thanks too Rick for your words on the comfort zone. How did the fish feel that climbed out of water for the first time? Creation can only happen in the field of risk (not danger) and once we realise this what a fantastic journey we can enjoy together.

Isn't it great what we can explore in Sacred Space?

[Christophe Horvath]

Dear Rick,
Great to hear from you - quite humbled as well, knowing full well who the true sage is between us is!
So true what you say.

Two other thoughts come to mind as well:

Nonresistance, nonjudgement, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living. (don't know source, but sounds rather Buddhist ;-)

The spiritual journey is the letting go - or unlearning - of fear, and the allowing again of Love - Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love).

Warmest & stay in touch
Christophe

[Rick Pursell]

Spoken like the true sage that you are Christophe!!

May I add - "Life begines beyond our comfort zone" and I am constanly reminded of valuing the present moment with the idea that between where we are now in this perfect moment and where we think we need to be in the future, lies suffering!!

Namaste,

Rick