I have seen multiple posts stating "both sides are coming
from fear" or "both sides are using fear" to push agendas, or to
guide perspectives. (Could be political, could be media, could be anything)
Each time I saw this idea I thought to myself "If both
sides are employing fear...isn't that the same side?"
Each side's agenda may oppose the other, but if each is
employing fear, whether intentionally or unintentionally, both are occupying
the same side. The opposite of fear is not fear.
Who knows WHAT to believe? It is a hard question to answer given said agendas, fake news, misinformation, contradicting information, and the use of fear to steer our perspectives.
Fear comes from the mind’s inability to know, to understand, and
to predict, when our sense of security depends on knowing, understanding, and
predicting. It comes from the mind’s uncertainty when certainty has become our
security.
It can really be tough when the options we see are fear on one
side and fear on the other side. The opposite of fear is not fear.
There was a time when "pick the less of two evils"
seemed like the only option. I get it, I really do. I do not see that way
anymore.
If there are only two "sides" with fear occupying one
of them, then love must be on the other side. The opposite of fear is love.
If we do not see love as the "opposing" side of fear,
then we have temporarily lost part of our personal power. We may have been
guided into believing that the only options are fear on one side and fear on
the other. We may have also been guided into believing that the only options
are those that are outside of us.
If either of those are the case, we have been mis-guided. No judgment:
it is what it is...until it is not. Again, I have been there. We can begin to
take back our personal power and choose love instead of fear.
The opposite of fear is love. We experience love and all that
emanates from it on the outside to the degree we experience love on the inside.
Increased love on the inside increases love on the outside.
From where does love emerge? Love does just that, it emerges. It
emerges from within. It emerges from the deepest parts of who we are, and with
it comes trust, a true sense of self-security, independent of what is happening
outside.
Peace comes with it, as does kindness, compassion, gentleness,
forgiveness, mercy, understanding, and increased love. Love felt and shared is
not divided, it is multiplied.
Choose the side of love, even if you…wait, especially if you have
to create that side yourself. That IS our personal power. It is time for me,
and you, and us and we, to create the “side” of love. Truth in the heart can
inform the perceptions of the mind. Our mind-conditioning is such that we tend
to value more what we experience OUTSIDE of ourselves than what we could
experience INSIDE. Again, truth in the heart can inform the perceptions of the
mind.
Recognize that truth exists in the heart. Connecting to it via prayer,
nature, meditation, breath-work, silence, yoga, and lots of other ways, will
allow the heart to inform the mind of truth; the truth within, and the truth
without.
As we do this individually, and therefore collectively on any
collective level, the “side” of love will grow, as the “side” of fear will
weaken. Love’s intentions and influences expand and impact more than those who are
choosing the personal power “side” of love. When we experience someone else in
that space, we see it as an invitation to go there too.
Be that which your heart desires to see in the world. Be not
that which your mind fears in the world.
Much Love,
Luke
