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You Are Not Your Fears
By Tama Kieves:
It’s time to take in the truth about you.
Your fears aren’t real. Actually, you’re doing great. Sure, you may be biting your nails down to the nub because of money. Or irritated by your boss. Unsettled by a relationship hiccup. Enraged by politics. No matter. You’re doing great.
No, I’m not on drugs. But I am intoxicated with your potential. And mine.
You are not your fears. The part of you that dreads the workday or talking to the doctor is part of you. A mighty vocal part, I might add. Neuroscience teaches us that you have mindlessly repeated and rehearsed these thoughts. And even created grooves in your brain that operate like speed dial. Connecting you to feeling crappy sooner. Yay!
Still, there is another part of you that is swinging on a swing, kicking its feet in the air, kayaking down the river, knowing all is well and all manner of things are well. This Self is quiet, a mountain lion, sleek and present. This Self trusts your life and your way. This Self is power.
I would never dismiss your humanity, your grief or anxiety.
I am just reminding you that your fears are not all of you.
Your spirit is doing great. Your soul is having an adventure that will enable it to become even more expressed. Life is moving you in the right direction. You’re growing. And shifting every single minute.
You’re doing better than you think.
Fears Are Like Morning Breath
One morning I caught myself in the act. The heavy thoughts. I have to do this and this and that today. What dreadful thing will be in my email inbox? What if my life is about to fall apart? How long has that shoulder pain been there? Is there such a thing as shoulder cancer? Oh crap, am I creating this with my focus? I overheard these thoughts.
I felt the heaviness, the dourness like a peasant in scratchy gray torn garments. I was sad to see myself thinking this way, and so early in the day. Then suddenly,
“the other me” stepped forward and reminded me. “Oh honey, this is morning breath. That’s all.”
I considered this metaphor. I brush my teeth and the sour taste in my mouth disappears. I don’t identify with morning breath. Morning breath isn’t my karma, trajectory, or destiny. It’s just a condition that arises when I haven’t had a chance to take care of myself.
Same thing with my heavier thoughts. My worry committee had been drafting movie scripts throughout the night. But in the daylight, I could let these imagined scenarios evaporate just like morning breath. I could brush my teeth. I could cleanse my mind. I could enter the present moment and choose what I decide to focus IN on. I could stop bacteria in its tracks.
So, consider me your Listerine for a minute here: You’re doing great.
You Are More than Your Fear
A Course in Miracles, a wisdom path studied by millions, teaches “What you think you are is a belief to be undone.”
Reminding us that we are not our smaller selves, A Course in Miracles shares: “It is not you who are so vulnerable and open to attack that just a word, a little whisper that you do not like, a circumstance that suits you not, or an event that you did not anticipate upsets your world, hurls it into chaos. Truth is not frail. Illusions leave it perfectly unmoved and undisturbed.”
In my new book LEARNING TO TRUST YOURSELF, I talk about owning your power by remembering who you are. You are beloved by Life. And it’s time for each of us to engage the higher possibilities we always have available to us.
Here’s what I say in LEARNING TO TRUST YOURSELF about actively choosing to trust yourself and your life:
“The beloved is someone who has decided not to be a victim in this life. You may make less money. You may have been hurt or degraded unfairly and yet you will not victimize yourself. You will not take a lower role. You will rise in any circumstance because that is your birthright.
You are conscious. You are devoted. And you will be the presence of love for yourself.
Can you imagine if you didn’t ever have to experience life as trampled grass?
What if you knew that something in you could rise again and again?
What if you knew that the Radical Presence of Your Guidance was unconditional— and instantaneously available? What if you could plug into a Source of dynamism that could navigate and instigate anything? You can. You really can.
Listen to a voice of wild divine love within you.
A voice of fearless possibility.
This life force is not limited by circumstances. It is limited by your refusal to allow what you already know.
I could have just said you’re doing great. So, I will say that to you now–with utmost compassion for anything you’re going through. Even to the part of you that does not yet trust that you can trust. I believe in you. I believe in the undiluted light in you. Your love is a superpower.
Just do me a favor. Indulge me. Next time you brush your teeth, say to yourself, “I’m doing great.” This isn’t a platitude or sugar wisdom. This is the deepest truth about you.
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Here's my Coaching Practice for you this month:
Imagine what would it feel like to know that your fears aren’t true. What would it feel like to know “you’re doing great?” What would you choose in your life right now?
(Quick… email us and tell me your first thoughts or intentions for yourself this month. Sharing IS strengthening! I will hold it with you in love.)
And of course, I’d love you to learn how to trust yourself more deeply. My new book LEARNING TO TRUST YOURSELF: Breaking Through the Blocks that Hold You Back is on sale now! Find out more here. 😊
With love and fierce support,
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TAMA: Honors graduate of Harvard Law School turned mojo career catalyst.
Best-selling author of This Time I Dance!: Creating the Work You Love, Inspired & Unstoppable: Wildly Succeeding in Your Life’s Work!, A Year Without Fear: 365 Days of Magnificence, and also Thriving Through Uncertainty.
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