Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Oct/Nov 2014 - Featuring Louise Hay | Page 64

let yourself be led instead of trying to force
matters. All is well and remains well.” Isn’t
that incredibly comforting?

ACCEPT FEAR
What do you want to do when something
becomes overwhelming and you’re afraid?
You want to run away! If only you had a magic
wand to make the situation disappear. You
wish you could click your heels like Dorothy
in the Wizard of Oz and voila, you’re back in
Kansas (or wherever safety resides.) What
else can you do when fear has you in its icy
grip? You can relax and embrace it.
Fear, or any other emotion, rarely stays
static. It changes, moves, goes up and
down, in and out. If you can simply accept
fear and embrace it, it will begin to lose its
power over you. I’ve found that if I can look
deeply into the thing I’m scared about, rather
than running away, I can shift its hold on me.
Try this: Ask yourself, “What am I really
scared of?” and write down the answer. Ask
yourself, “If that thing I’m scared of actually
happens, what will I do?” Keep repeating
this exercise until you’ve exhausted your
possibilities of fearful outcomes. What I
usually find when I do this exercise is that
I end up feeling mildly amused by all the
unlikely scenarios my mind can come up
with.
Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote,
“You gain strength, courage and confidence
by every experience in which you really stop
to look fear in the face. You are able to say
to yourself. ‘I lived through this horror. I can
take the next thing that comes along.’” Fear
is not something you fight. It’s something
you make room for in your life. Embrace it
and make it your ally, not your enemy.

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“You gain strength,
courage and confidence
by every experience in
which you really stop to
look fear in the face. You
are able to say to yourself.
‘I lived through this
horror. I can take the next
thing that comes along.’”
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

TAKE ACTION
Fear can permeate our mind if we allow its
negativity in there for too long. It takes on
a life of its own, convincing us of our own
worthlessness and ineffectiveness. Popular
speaker and minister, Joyce Meyer, writes
“God doesn’t want us to be scared. But even
when we do feel fear, we can choose to trust
God and take action.”
I’ve found that the best antidote to fear is
action. If you have become immobilized by
fear, start asking yourself, “What one thing
could I do today that would make me feel
better?” It can be something simple and
easy or something major and audacious.
Your intuition, when asked a question like
this, will begin to offer suggestions. It might
be to have coffee with a friend, writing a
note to someone you need to forgive, being
brave enough to make an appointment with

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