Fear is the great attractor, and it brings to us precisely what it is that we hope to avoid. That is because fear is the strongest human emotion next to love, and the strength of an emotion is what produces or attracts results in one’s life.
There are only two places to reside as one moves through the human experience: a place of love or a place of fear. The place of fear is a very real place, but it is always the lie about you. The lie is that you have anything at all to fear, and the truth is that in God’s great Universe, there is nothing to fear but fear itself.
This was announced a number of years ago by a wonderful American politician named Franklin Roosevelt, who told the people of this country “We have nothing to fear but fear itself”. That statement has become famous throughout history from the time it was spoken, back in the forties. Even though he was a politician, I think that in this instance Mr. Roosevelt landed upon a great truth.
When we fear anything, we make known our announcement that we do not believe in the goodness of God. It is fear which attracts and produces results of a negative nature in one’s life. The best way to get rid of the fear that you are carrying around is to move instantly and at once to a place of gratitude for all the goodness of God in all the miracles that you see being performed all around you every day.
Accept that God is the most wonderful being in the Universe, and would never do anything to harm you. Deeply understand that even the negative experiences of your life are gifts and are to be treasured – opportunities for you to be and to decide who you really are. Read the many other sections in CwG dealing with this truth, and then read them yet again, until you have their meaning memorized.
It is really very easy to step away from fear. Simply do not acknowledge it as real, and move immediately into gratitude. One of the most wonderful prayers I have ever heard is the following: “Dear God, help me to understand that this problem has already been solved for me.” This is a statement of such pure truth and wonderful faith that, if repeated often enough with regard to a particular problem or condition, it cannot fail to produce positive effects.
A great affirmation that I have created to assist people in moving through fear is the following: “All that I once feared, I now embrace and heal. All negative human experience which may come to me in my life, I now see as a gift and a blessing – a treasure to behold – and a glorious opportunity for me to declare and to announce, to be and to decide, to express and fulfill Who I Really Am.”
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