14 March 2011
How Fear Creates Choice
Posted by Intuitive Coach under: Current Events; Goal Setting; self-growth .
March has arrived and everything is getting ramped up. Can you feel it? Many of you have experienced a slower January and February than usual this year. That’s because you were very busy laying the foundation for all the highly charged activity that March has lying in wait for us.
Now that you have all your ducks in a row (you do, right?) it’s all systems go and full steam ahead! With the surge of spring in nature, the leap forward in time with Daylight Savings, and more light streaming onto the northern hemisphere, individuals and businesses alike up the optimism quotient, and everyone seems to have an improved outlook on the year ahead.
I wrote these first two paragraphs last week but had to stop before I could complete my blog post. At the time, I knew that March had some very highly charged activity predicted for this month, and had learned that some of that activity would come in the form of “earth changes” and so I was not completely surprised when Mother Nature showed us unequivocally who is really in charge on this planet as she did on March 12th.
The images streaming out of Japan following last Saturday’s devastating earthquake and accompanying tsunami are disturbing, heartbreaking, terrifying, and sobering. Thousands of people missing presumed dead, towns and cities reduced to tangled messes that may take decades to rebuild, a growing threat of further destruction from damaged nuclear power plants contaminating the air, the waters, people and animals alike.
A tsunami of fear unleashed itself around the planet.
Questions arise about our own safety here in America and along all the countries lining the Pacific Rim. How prepared are we for a disaster of this magnitude? Many of my clients, friends and family have pulled together for the first time a disaster-preparedness kit with items they and their families will need should the unthinkable happen here. Survival is on our minds now.
In times like these after a major natural disaster, it’s very easy to go to a place of total fear, of expecting the very worst, of feeling intensely that “no matter what I do, it doesn’t matter anyway” or feeling as though you’re a victim with no control over your own life.
The Truth is more in the middle ground than you might think.
Yes, things happen to us. Yes, there are forces beyond our control or imagination that affect us deeply, there’s no denying that reality. And yet we also have choice in how we RE-act to what happens to us. And in that moment of choice, we exert the act of co-creation. In our RE-action, we create right along with that outside force, making choices about how we want to BE in that particular circumstance. We cooperate with that force and create anew. We climb back into the driver’s seat of our lives….even when we are afraid.
How to develop your confidence in co-creating the life you were meant to be living is the subject of my new eGuide called Release & Catch: Let Go of the Past, Catch Your Future. It’s an easy PDF download and comes straight from my heart to yours. I give you a practical guide with concrete exercises to help you create lasting change in your life, manifest your dreams, and make your goals a reality.
It’s a way to make a difference for yourself, so you can make a difference for others. A way to take charge and get into the driver’s seat of your own life. A way to feel less like your life is whizzing by and you’re just a bystander watching it pass. More like you are actively engaged in creating the life you were meant to live. The life you so richly deserve. You have more power than you imagined—it’s time to claim it. Even in the presence of fear.
Please join me in sending love, light and prayers to the people of Japan.
