These are scary times, aren’t they? Last year brought a devastating tsunami and resulting nuclear accident, massive hurricanes hitting high population centers, global economic uncertainty, enormous wildfires, severe droughts, unprecedented floods and so much more. Not just one country toppled, but several did. According to predictions, this year promises more of the same.
So how do we respond; with fear and worry, right? One newspaper headline read, “People are desperate,” and pictured people standing in a food line.
We feel justified to feel this way. We are entitled to respond with fear. These are victim responses and they are a part of the old paradigm. Sure, you can feel this way, but you will only prolong your suffering. Fear, worry and desperation are not a part of the new paradigm and our ascension.
As the Buddhist aphorism says, “Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.”
Suffering is traveling through your life events with fear, anger, worry, guilt, shame, hatred and the like. Those responses also pull you down vibrationally and make ascension more difficult.
Another way of looking at life events is to recognize that they are all Divine. It is all part of the plan. Therefore, it is okay. Some of you are screaming right now, “This terrible thing just happened and you tell me it is ‘okay’?! Surely it is not okay!” In the wise words of Mick Jagger, “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, well you just might find, you get what you need.” Our souls are getting the exact lessons they need to learn the lessons they came to this life for.
If this is too spiritual for some, let’s look at it more pragmatically: That hurricane just hit. It’s too late to evacuate. Branches and other debris are hitting the house. The power just went out. How do you want to go through this? You are going through it. Make no mistake about it. So you might as well choose contentment, or at least neutrality, over fear and worry. It can be done. Here are some ways.
Eleven Tips for Moving Through Life Circumstances without Fear:
1. Ask for Divine Grace: Ask for the fear to be removed. If it is not removed immediately, Spirit will help to ease your suffering as you work to change your conditioned responses. They will make changing easier as well, as long as you ask them.
2. Remind yourself that what is happening is part of the plan: It may not be what you consciously desire, but it is what your soul needs. It is something that, on some level, you committed to and asked for. Therefore, what is before you is actually something to be thankful for.
3. Have no judgment of the outcome of the situation: If it is what you need, then however it turns out is okay. One outcome is not really better than another. It just seems that way to us.
4. Be conscious of your attachments: Let them go. Start with the easier ones, like attachment to the ‘stuff’ or material things and money in your life. People are harder to detach from. This doesn’t mean we stop loving them. This means we recognize that whatever happens to them is part of their journey. We love them through their lessons and we allow them to have them.
5. Breathe: Especially in the middle of tough times, breathe. Be very aware of your body and emotions. If your body is tight or your emotions are heightened, breathe.
6. Meditation: Meditation is probably as important as breathing. Really. It will transform you internally so you see the bigger picture and are less likely to be fearful. Use meditation to find your center and to stay there. If you start one new spiritual practice, let it be meditation. Go to www.wendyjoy.net and download the podcasts on meditation from Bringing the Light radio show on Para-x Radio, and download the guided meditation on the site.
7. Change your perceptions: Ask, “What’s really going on here?” For example, “Am I really losing my house as I think? Or am I simply evacuating?” “Am I really being verbally torn apart here? Or am I witnessing someone else’s insecurities that really have nothing to do with me?” Figure out what is really happening in the situation and view it from that framework.
8. Create an affirmation: Create a positive statement that you can repeat to uplift yourself and remind yourself there is another way to view what is happening. “I am safe.” “I am fine.” “I have everything I need.” Say it whether you initially believe it or not.These affirmations have a higher vibration than the other fearful thoughts you were thinking and will help raise your vibration.
9. Use energy balancing and healing techniques. This is a topic for another day! There are many techniques available and many gifted practitioners.
10. Connect with your heart: Move your consciousness out of your head. Drop it into your heart. Your head is where the scary stuff is. Your heart is where the peace and love are. Use your breath to move your consciousness. Practice this when you are not in fear, so it is easier to do when you are.
11. Tune in to your guidance: Your guidance is not fear-based. It will help you know what to do in any situation. Meditation will help you get quiet enough to hear your own guidance, including that of your angels and guides.
Living by these tips will surely reduce your suffering and ease your trip through ascension. Happy travels!
