WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?

WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF?

Let me state for the record, “I’m really talking about succeeding and not specifically about failing or fearing.” Yet since many seem to discuss their fears or doubts regarding a notion, allow me a short discourse to make my point.

Success begins in the mind with a thought, so isn’t it natural for that to be the starting place for fear to begin. Your mind is the fertile planting ground for thought, good or bad, benevolent or malevolent. Your mind doesn't care what you allow to be planted in it or even who plants it there. That's your job; to care what is planted and who you allow access to plant in your mind. The result is what brought you to where you are right now, believe it or not.

The good news, which is the gospel truth, is that your thoughts will also take you to where you'd like to be taken. However, your thoughts taken alone is not the only path. Your heart has a role as to what thoughts are actionable thoughts to lead you to your desire. Sometimes; if fact most times, we avoid understanding this critical pathway process, and we find ourselves somewhere we didn't truly desire to be. In other words, "we changed our mind."

Well, don't worry or despair. You now know the knowledge process of the heart pathway, which is thought through the filtering of the heart. Follow it. It is illuminated for you.

Now that you are awakened....you are becoming enlightened. You can get more information about this process in the upcoming zany workbook I'm writing, called 'THE MIND GARDEN'S WORKBOOK'. That is, if it get's published. I'll have to find an equally zany publisher willing to laugh while taking the risk with me. Either way, it's still truthful, believe it or believe it not. Truth doesn't care whether you believe it, IT IS. What do I mean when I say it is truthful? It means it was writen in The Presence of The Spirit of Truth. So lets go on.

"Have you heard of the story about how to train an elephant?" You begin when it is very young when the elephant hasn’t grown very large. Its brain hasn’t fully developed either so it is learning its way in life. The trainer tethers one leg of the elephant to a stake in the ground to limit its movement. The elephant pulls and tugs until he forms the mindset that it is hopelessly unrealistic to try. Then the trainer comes and un-tethers it, walks it, feeds it, and generally allows it to move about.

This process, of "learned behaviorial traits" along with others, are repeated day in and day out until it becomes reality to the elephant that the trainer is associated with its movement and its sustenance. Therein the elephant becomes trained. If you think deeper and longer about this methodology of control, humans can "become trained in the behavior," much like the baby elephant. Habits become more difficult to unlearn when they are learned as a child and reinforced by a custom, a belief, a tribe, a society, or even a faith or religion. Hmmm...I can feel the heat around some collars as you slowly contemplate this reality. This is the start of your awakening....

What does this have to do with success and or fear? There are fears taught to us from the times we are children. Many of them are meant to protect us from known harm. Yet some are developed simply as a reaction to the unknown that we manifest ourselves. And we continue to manifest fears as we go through life on an unknown journey, as perceived in the picture above of the boy on the boardwalk.

Fear is our reaction to a perceived psychological threat. It causes physiological change in our body parts, such as faster heart rate, keen intensity, tighter, furrowed brow, tighter lips, clenched teeth, etc. It’s really funny and telling when we think about our reaction to things of which we are fearful. Snakes, darkness, dogs, heights, enclosures, flying, swimming,
and many, many others.

Fear wants you to believe what is unbelievable. Fear wants you to believe something is present when it really isn’t. Fear knows how to activate the creative side of your brain and lead you into wildly into illogical conclusions.

How about this one – Fear of losing? We get so caught up on losing something, whether it be a precious object, a person in a relationship, or an endeavor. We become victims of our own self-doubt. Shakespeare wrote, “Our doubts are traitors that cause us to lose the good we oft might gain by failing or fearing to attempt.”

Are you aware that there are those that fear success? There are people that are actually afraid of succeeding at something! Of course, they don’t outwardly tell themselves that. They build up resistance and then spend their time talking about reasons why they don’t attempt to find success. There are people that spend their whole lives failing because they are afraid of succeeding at something. They spend their whole lives failing because they feel success carries to large a cost.
Therefore they don’t take hold and try to succeed or try to overcome what they fear! They build up all sorts of doubt concerning not taking risk.

The success of fear is when it keeps you from attempting a path toward success. Let me say again, "the sucess of fear is when it keeps you from attempting a path toward success." You define what success is to you and then match your thinking to it, remembering to cross the pathway of the heart.

Overcome your fears and successes will follow you. Funkadelic, a George Clinton led 70's band sang, "Free your mind and your ass will follow."

God’s Word says it simply and best……FEAR NOT – "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind." (2 Tim. 1:7)If you find that you are currently thinking unsound thoughts, give consideration to the source of those thoughts and take accountability for them. You are the only one truly in control of them. They take their orders from you. If you allow control of your thoughts to someone else, it is like allowing someone else to drive you, giving control of the steering wheel to that person. Your destiny is literally placed in someone else's hands.

So take control of your thoughts and the responsibility for them. If you need help, get it from someone you trust who seems in control of their own thoughts. Your life depends on it. We are complete for now.

"If you argue for your limitations and they become truly your limitations to keep you right where you are." - Richard Bach

FEAR – False Evidence Appearing Real.
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