sarcoidosis, addiction and more. Most of the people who come to me for help are frightened to the point of submission by their diagnosis. They want to get rid of it by whatever means is fastest: cut it out, burn it out, drug it out; whatever it takes. “Do whatever you need to do!” What I need to do is help them recognize that their fear is stopping them from thinking, analyzing, researching, and reacting calmly. Their fear is creating the kind of panic that precludes self-actualization or self-direction. “I don’t know enough – you do it!” is the default reaction throughout most of our society. We’ve been taught to give in to our fears and hand over responsibility for our own thoughts, bodies, and even lives to someone else – anyone else who isn’t afraid and therefore probably knows more than we do about how we should live, how we should act, even how we should feel. Phooey. The knowledge is there if we can release our fears and take back our own lives. Instead of being frightened by a scary diagnosis like high blood pressure or fibromyalgia or even cancer, suppose we looked at it as an opportunity to change what’s not working in our life or body. What if: We approached it as the chance to get some balance back? We relieve some of our stress? We get a bit more sleep? We eat less sugar? We did a combination of them all? We can help heal our bodies and re-balance our lives simply by taking positive, conscious action to eliminate the underlying causes. Submitting to the fear
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of a condition – hurry, hurry! Cut it out, burn it out, drug it out! – only reflects the worst, which is then mirrored back to our lives with more negative conditions and circumstances to fear. I’ve seen this reality play out over and over again; I’ve lived it over and over again. Enough! That storm and all its challenges and inconveniences – no one here died, after all; nothing was permanently or irreparably damaged – made me sit down and recognize life’s real truth. When we live in fear, we have cause for fear. When we live in resistance, we have cause to resist. When we release our fears – one by one, every day, as they crop up or creep in or peek around the corners of our subconscious – we have the freedom to accept. When we accept hope, we have cause to hope. And when we accept joy and comfort, we have cause for joy and comfort. It took an unexpected, unnerving, isolating weather anomaly to bring home the full blessings of my life, the truth about who I am and the powers I hold. The powers we all hold. The storm was a gift to me – an opportunity to stop and breathe and release all my nagging fears, my what-ifs, and remember one of my favorite quotes from Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.: “Fear is the stumbling block to life’s agenda.” So, when opportunity knocks at your door, which you know will eventually happen, will you run and hide in fear, missing out on your life’s agenda, or will you embrace this opportunity to bring harmony and balance back into your life?
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