12 Ways to master your fear

Resistance is fear in disguise. It has the power to stop you dead in your tracks, stagnate your growth, limit your perception and understanding. Notice specific experiences you reach for or deny yourself right now. Whenever you say you postpone anything, far more is going on.  

Hesitation is fear in action. Fear arises when something threatens your comfort zone. You may tell yourself you do not have the time, the money, the freedom, the right mindset, adequate insight, to take advantage of what is presenting. Its all fear taking shape as excuses. Telling yourself why you cannot do something simply reinforces the fear that holds you hostage. The moment is here to address this and move through it.  

Review these 12 ways to master your fear:

1. Shift focus from the future

Your fear is always about assumptions on what’s going to happen next. Thus, your fear is always about that which does not exist. If your fear is about the non-existent, your fear is completely unfounded, imaginary. The future is always pointing and guiding you to the present moment where intuition is the most reliable guide. If you have the urge to act, fear only holds you back if you are unconscious to the mind's tricks.

2. Decide why you are here

You must decide whether you are on this planet to experience life or avoid life. If you exist to experience life, intensity is required. Without it, you are not living fully. Using fear as a tool to protect yourself reduces the energy flow available to you to create. Once the visceral is gone, you are no longer really living.  You only live based on mental ideas or heresay. You cannot experience anything fantastic and ecstatic.  When you are fearful, you cannot experience wild abandon. You cannot sing, dance, laugh, cry, fall inor lose yourself in love. You cut yourself off from what makes you feel alive. You only sit, grieve, regret not taking risks. 

3. Get comfortable with the unknown

Admit it.  You are taught to feel comfortable with the familliar, with what is predictable, or  perceived 'normal' though no such thing exists.  The more you accept life is energy in motion where nothing is permanent or predictable, the more you realize you are living with the unknown every moment and doing just fine. Be conscious of this and watch your perception of fear transform into excitement about the unknown.

4.  Let go of the urge to control

HUmans are taught that unless we can exert control, we must fear. But is it possible to ever have control? Even if you can swim, you can drown. A professional musician or experienced chef can still make mistakes. Give up the illusion of control, and you are free.

5.  Surrender

Surrender to what is is powerful, even if it seems 'way out there.' because as long as we try to change what is, we allow the mind's filtered version of reality convince us that is real.  In doing so, we cut oursleves off from far more.

6. Get rooted in reality

When you are not rooted (grounded) in reality, suffering happens. Suffering is always about that which does not exist.  When not rooted in reality, you are always rooted in your mind. Mind is – one part of it is memory, another part of it is imagination. Both of them are in one way imagination, because both of them don’t exist right now. You’re lost in your imagination, that’s the basis of your fear. If you were rooted in reality, there would be no fear.  If you are suffering the non-existential, we call that insanity. So, people may be in just socially accepted levels of insanity, but if you’re afraid or if you’re suffering anything which does not exist, it amounts to insanity,

7. Consult a Life Coach 

Do you fear success or fear failure? A good life coach can help you examine what you truly want from life, and guides you to pinpoint the true origin of your fears. Its crucial to be clear on what you really want and what is actually holding you back.  Commit to loving the process.

8. Read & Listen

Reading a book, scanning relevant webpages or listening to podcasts that touch on your specific fear can open new doors on how you can get rid of it. Access motivational and inspirational work or glimpses of workshops about topics you recognize you are avoiding.

9. Get into the flow

Inactivity can be a sign from your inner guidance system telling you that you still have preparation to do. If you tell yourself you cannot do something due lack of income, it helps to see everything as the flow of the same energy.  Taking action to generate income begins with loving yourself and being true to who you are. Loving more, doing what you love and seeing everything as energy in motion, allows flow to happen. 

10. Watch films & Youtube videos

Watching a movie, documentary or Youtube videos can be eye-opening. Sometimes it’s nice to distract yourself from your fear, but if you really want to, you can find loads of movies on the fear you’re dealing with and empower yourself to see your fear from a completely new perspective.

11. Identify the lesson

Fears are pointers to lessons we create for soul growth. Overcoming fear involves learning related lessons and moving ahead.  The Path of life is about identifying lessons, accepting and expressing more of yourself. This shapes all areas of your life; relationships, career, and far more.

12. Model a master

Connect with a person or people who have experienced the fear you have and also moved beyond it.  Spend time with them, ask how they did it, and explore whether this approach could work for you.  Discuss the nature of the process. You can learn a lot about yourself and the emerging master within.

4 Self-created myths & Tips to shatter them

This is the perfect moment to step back and view your perceptions with new eyes.  Reflect on four self-created myths and tips to shatter them:

Myth #1:  Fear exists and must be overcome

The very belief in fear creates insecurity and holds you back from doing and being what comes naturally. Making fear-based decisions or running away from fear is action and keeps you from living your best life now.

Tip #1: Watch what happens as whatever evokes fear is viewed as an invitation to prove to yourself that fear is unfounded. (This assumes you know the difference between imagined fear and putting yourself in harm's way)  

Myth #2:  Material life and spiritual life are separate

All perceived separation is illusion. The idea of a choice between spiritual and material life is but an example. HUman beings exist on Earth to grow and develop spiritually.  Yet, being spiritual does not require abandoning , everyday life and relationships.   Growth involves applying spiritual or universal principles to daily life. In the seemingly mundane is the key to understanding the profound questions of Soul.

Tip #2: Making choices is about hesitating to make decisions.  Being spontaneous and acting intuitively is seeing nothing to reconcile or no separation. This is about recalling what it is to be in the flow.

Myth #3: Disconnection alienates people

Any disconnection you feel from people or situations is simply a mirror of disconnection you feel from yourself. Similarly, any grief you feel about apparent loss is not about the perceived other but about forgetting innate wholeness which can never be taken away. 

Tip#3: Recall everything is love and love knows no separation. Explore the messages that your material life brings you. Allow feeling pointers to love and blessings. This is a gentle reminder of why you choose to be here.

Myth #4:  Money is lacking

Another view is money is a form of energy exchange, a social convenience which only takes on the meaning and importance you give it. Ask why you allow yourself to feel you are not enough, less than or lacking in some way.  Reflect on when you feel desperate for money to manifest certain things, which emotional buttons are triggered and what unconscious issues this points to for healing.  

Tip #4: Seeing everything in terms of energy flow allows shifting from a vibration of scarcity to abundance. How you view and interact with money is siply a reflection of how much you love yourself or deny self-love.

10 Tips to master manifesting

Manifesting comes as easily as you allow it. Apply these 10 tips to master manifesting so that what you experience resonates with your soul  and benefits more than yourself;

1. Be aware you co-create with cosmic forces.

A master manifester lives and breathes the co-creation process. You feel what it is to tune into all of life, know everything is cosmic energy, and recognize it is shifted quickest by the highest vibrations. Call it Source, The Force, anything, even a wordless symbol. Energy flows in the direction of highest vibration of heartfelt confidence and love.

2. Accept everything is possible.

Being open to infinite possibilities raises your vibration and allows everything that nurtures your highest well-being to come to you. Only your thoughts (their vibration) stands in the way between you and living your wildest dreams and beyond.

3. Surrender to the unseen.

Recall the phrase, 'the what always comes before the how.' From the instant the vibration of a thought is released to the cosmos, Universal Laws come into play. Trust the process that is beyond the grasp of logical mind.

4. Grasp the boomerang effect.

When you grasp the boomerang effect, you know what you throw out into the world reverberrates back like a rock skipping across the water.  The nature of thought energy you generate is already mirroring or coming back. The message is clear: discipline the mind. Only give off energy that you’re willing to receive from the universe. Everything you encounter is a gift you give yourself for soul growth.

5.  See the end result & love the process.

All results arise with Divine timing for your greater good. Humans create gravitational fields and generate the energy of what they choose. Set your intention for the best possible result and realize the universal flow can also offer something better beyond your current vision.  Love every stage of the process. Its already here. Recognize your power.

6. Master your thoughts & words.

Master manifesters are acutely aware of the power of thought and words. They obliterate doubt, avoid words like want, try, can't, won't, shouldn't, never and impossible, or any word with inflexible or negative vibes. They know every unfolding arises from brainwaves, which reflect the nature of thoughts and dimensions of consciousness being filtered out or invited into direct experience.

7. Express infinite appreciation.

Recognize expressing gratitude actually arises from a spark of doubt that what you envision may not arise. Expressing infinite appreciation  however, resonates trust that every unfolding is perfect and also making way for more of what is best suited to your evolution and soul growth.

8.  Be in uplifting company.

Surround yourself with inspiring people and conditions that support and encourage you.  View sources of negative energy as teachers yet recognize that you are evolving into the five people you spend the most time with.  Nurture relationships with reciprocal or mutually-supportive energy. Be turned on enough to sense when yoru energy is being drained or taken advantage of and move on.

9. Feel abundant.

When you love, you generate or invite more reasons to love, When you fear lack or not having, you invite an experience with compatible vibration. Money is no exception. Be aware of issues arising within you about money. Brainstorm idioms that reveal your unconscious beliefs so you can let these go and experience more abundance in all shapes and forms.

10. Feel the way into your visions.

Create space to regularly map out how you wish to feel. Master manifesters know its not things they actually want but how things enable them to feel.  The more detailed your vision, the more palpable it grows in your awareness until manifesting time is zero. Everything is Now. The key is to eliminate thoughts that have you believe otherwise.

The Truth about Commitment

The truth about commitment is not about a physical other but realizing who you are and choosing to live more authentically.

Being committed is always being honest with yourself. This implies being willing to change how you view yourself and the world and being open to teachings or guidance. Many people expect spiritual teachings to be free. The truth is that all spiritual and holistic understanding comes at a cost to the one who attains it. Experiences over many years can come together as effective teachings. The truth itself is free once one is aligned to it, but the process of getting here is not.

Ask yourself why many spiritual teachers are not respected and/or valued, yet are often expected to share teachings on request, for free. Ask yourself how you would feel if you were asked to do your job for free or an employer refused to pay you when your finished tasks.How you respond echoes a vibration of self-worth. It is possible to function in this world with less money, and the paradigm is changing, How you respond to energy exchange is a teaching for your soul.

Its interesting that to want something for free can reflect the refusal to take responsibility for one's life and the expectation others will do the work. Evolution does not happen that way.

It is easy to blame money (or lack of it after its spent on other things). The truth is you commit fully to your evolution or not. You follow intuition and synchronicity or not. You recognize some kind of give and take are required to maintain balance of energy flow or not. Exchange does not have to be money, but it must be mutually beneficial to both giver and receiver. This said, being productive is not simply a quantifiable act in the material world. It is also about exploring and aligning with understanding things from holistic (spiritual) vantage points.

From one vantage point, everything has equal value. Thus, devaluing spirituality is the biggest act of collective disrespect toward spiritual reality, the path and the teachers who walk it. Misunderstanding about spiritual laws of energy explains why many people perceive obstacles and challenges. Notice how many death-affirming choices are made, while thinking spiritual teachers need not be paid. On one level, the spiritual assistance desired is repelled by beliefs and affirmations to its low worth. The belief that self-mastery should be free and not require effort on one's part lowers vibration and keeps one from tapping into key wisdom.

Embrace self-reliance

Notice the world around you is giving you signs that all you have come to rely on outside yourself is unreliable. Patterns in the weather, in economies, in geology, in human behaviour, no longer exist as you once thought. In fact, all you are taught to believe is systematically revealing its not what it seems.  

How you delegate authority, how you earn and where you spend money, is changing based on changing values and priorities.  One perspective is that people are growing more conscious of how they give their power away and how this can be reclaimed.  A shift in awareness or consciousness is triggering other shifts.

Amidst all the curve balls that you do not control, you have the choice to love and accept all that is happening or to resist, disagree and be in conflict with it.  You have the choice to notice the sources of your food, the choice to be more self-sufficient and healthier.  You have the choice of where to live, how to live, and how to spend your time.  Recognize what you have done to this point matters less that what you do right now. Be willing to recognize what does not resonate or feel right.  Let go of attachments.  It is always possible to find the silver lining.