Fear.

If you stop empowering it with your thoughts, beliefs, actions, and attention Dear One, it will cease to have power.

How do you do that?

By choosing to focus your thoughts, beliefs, actions, and attention on something else, on something infinitely more pleasant, pleasing, powerful, and purposeful.

What is that?

Well-being.

When you don’t know what else to believe Dear One, when you don’t know what is true beyond your fear, believe in well-being. It is the most dominate force in the universe. And the only thing that is keeping it from being the most dominant force within you, is you.

Childhood is over Dear One. You are no longer a little person living within an environment that you have seemingly no control over. You are an adult and whether you believe it or not, you are able to make decisions for yourself.

When faced with a trial that requires you to face your past, remember that whatever it is, it is no longer your current reality. You don’t have to bring it back into the present moment with you if you choose not to. Others might approach you on the subject with energy, impressions or patterns that used to exist back then. It may still be their reality.  That doesn’t mean that it has to continue to be yours.  Remember at those moments, that you can choose not to dive right back into old patterns with them. You can choose to stay right where you are, in the present moment and deal with the situation from where you now stand. Just because they are choosing to engage in old patterns, does not mean that you have to join them in this practice.

When facing the past Dear One, anchor yourself in the present first, for that is the only place from where you can impact change.   KNOW that what you have learned and accomplished for yourself since that time, no one can take away from you, ever.

In the present, you get to decide what your past means to you. You can assign a lot of meaning to it or no meaning at all. That is completely up to you and only you.

The realization that you are bound by nothing but your beliefs and the limits of your own imagination – That is what true independence is Dear One.

Make all of your decisions today as if there was someone standing beside you, holding your hand, encouraging you, supporting you, loving you, believing in you, cheering you on, every step of the way.

Because there is.

You have no idea just how big of a support system you’ve got working for you Dear One.

Please remember to use it.

If you want to build strength in your physical body Dear One, you use it.

If you want to build strength in your emotional body, the same rule applies.

• If you want to feel stronger in love, love more.
• If you want to be more creative, create more.
• If you want to be more trusting, trust more.

Use whatever it is you want to strengthen, Dear One, more.

It’s just that simple.

Not easy, but simple.

Treat yourself well Dear One; with kindness, compassion, love, humility, flexibility, generosity,  forgiveness, and respect.

Why?

Because they’re watching you, and are taking their lead on how you want to be treated from you.

Raging, fearing, criticizing or whining about what is Dear One, is about as useful as shaking your fist at the rain during a rainstorm is.

No matter how much effort you exert, no matter how much you wish it wasn’t so, no matter how unjust you think it might be, there is really nothing that you can do to stop the water from falling from the sky.

But what you can do is choose how you are going to react to it.

You can stay inside if you want to. You can go outside with an umbrella, a rain coat, rubber boots, or all three. You can run around the block without your clothes on, or you can choose to go out in your favorite suede coat. You can dance in a puddle or take a walk with a lightening rod.

You can’t stop the rain Dear One, but you can choose how you are going to experience it.

Trust us Dear One, they won’t stop loving you if you need to say no from time to time.

We know it can be tough to do when you want to help, when you so very much want what’s best for them.

When someone is hurting or scared or confused, their attention is focused on their discomfort, on their pain, on themselves, on telling you what it is that they need, which is completely understandable.

But here’s what they are not telling you:  They want what’s best for you, too.

Please remember balance in all things Dear One; that includes being of service to others as well as being of service to yourself.

• Choose what comes in
• Choose what goes out

• Choose to hold on
• Choose to let go

• Choose what you want more of
• Choose what you want less of

• Choose what is worthy of your attention
• Choose what to ignore

• Choose what matters
• Choose what does not

Your choices are the breathe of your life Dear One.

They sustain you. They nourish you.  They replenish or deplete.

They determine the pace, quality and depth of the days, months and years of your life.

Like your breath Dear One, your choices are more powerful when given the benefit of your full attention.

Things can feel out of control Dear One, when your desires and your actions are not in alignment.

• You can’t reach joy with actions motivated by regret or sadness.
• You can’t reach contentment with actions motivated by impatience or frustration.
• You can’t reach love with actions motivated by loss or desperation.
• You can’t reach abundance with actions motivated by fear or scarcity.

So please don’t be surprised when actions motivated by insecurity, obligation, fear, or a sense of loyalty don’t yield you the results that you were hoping for.

Align your actions with your desires Dear One, and watch as the gap between what you want and what is showing up for you begins to close.