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Letting go of fear
Dear Creatrix,
How did you get on with your 100 questions?
I really enjoyed writing mine down this year, I did it before, in this chapter last year, and before in my own training to become a coach.
And it’s very interesting to see the changes.
Before I had so many questions about the world and how it works, this year I’m so focused on my own personal journey and where it is going to take me. It was very interesting to see, how I have really answered most or all of the questions i have written down before, so I could now arrive at new and different ones.
I wrote my questions down by hand, but I will actually type them up, possibly organize them a bit, but will see that I find answers to them all again, and I also still have to pick my ten most pressing ones – which I’m quite excited about as well.
And I know these things can be quite challenging, so I do really congratulate you for going all in and meeting yourself here with all of these inquiries.
Today, we will start to resolve some of the things we’ve found, and I’ll add our practice for this month, which is a gratitude practice. It’s a small thing, but is balancing, life changing, encouraging us to grow, and it’s beautiful at the same time.
We can be grateful for so many things, starting with being alive and having a roof over our heads, eating nourishing food, and having the company and caring for a plant or a pet or enjoying the presence of loving people around us.
And gratitude has been proven to calm our nervous system and enhance our life quality, especially if practised regularly.
Let’s be grateful
Showing gratitude and being grateful for what we have has been scientifically proven to have a positive effect on our lives.
But we don’t need science to convince us because we can also try it for ourselves and then see the effects it can have on our lives. In this practice, we will explore a few different ways that can help us to integrate gratefulness into our days and enrich our lives.
The first question, in this chapter, was about your fears. And in the last lesson, I already shared a bit about the fears I grew up with.
So, before we move on to the spiritual laws, I would like to take a moment to talk about love and fear.
Because often we wrongly assume that the opposite of love is hate – when hate is actually still love.
We might get deeper into this in the relationships chapter – but you can simply check this with yourself – the people we hate are the people we love who have hurt or disappointed us. Hate is just love and hurt, but it’s still love.
The actual opposite of love is fear – because fear is what keeps us from fully participating in life, from expanding and growing in the way that we’re meant to.
And currently, most of us misuse fears and worries, and therefore we struggle in life. We have normalized fear and worry. And sometimes we even mistake fear or worry for signs of love – when they are not.
So let’s get some clarity here.
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