Sidestepping Fear Agendas: personalize the fear, release labels, and remember universal connection.
Personal growth cannot happen without awareness of Universal Connection — that everything and everyone is energetically connected.
The two go hand in hand – a feedback loop where awareness and experience of one shines a deep light on the other, supporting expansion and deeper knowing.
Yet, it is this self-knowledge which Power-Over abhors simply because a self-aware individual is much more difficult to coerce and manipulate.
Thus, fear tactics are incorporated to control. If you can be scared into believing mistruth, deception, and lies, then your personal power can be thwarted, co-opted, and redirected toward interests contrary to your own.
This fear approach will also attempt to convince you that either you are not capable of trusting your own sense of truth or that your sense of truth is held in disdain by those opposing you and your life choices. A tactic with a long history within humanity and now referred to as gaslighting.
Here’s how to sidestep any agenda of fear.
First: personalize any fear statements.
The fear agenda attempts to turn the struggles of others into reasons why you are not safe.
Fear will label anonymous groups of people as those who you must fear or those to whom you will lose your livelihood or your life. These labels are everywhere and made and used by almost everyone even if the intention is to understand.
Instead of globs of nameless,unknown people, think of individuals you know. This is what we mean by personalized fear statements.
Substitute the name of a friend or family member. Then see if there is still fear.
For example, if you feel fear about migrants, think of someone you know who has moved from where they were born to where they live now. This should not be a problem because we are all migrants in one way or another.
When you think of situations with people you know, fear subsides and usually disappears.
Second: Remeber labels are used to marginalized and separate.
If you can put a personal face on any accusatory fear statement, the fear loses its support and loses its ability to coerce you against your best interest.
Your best interest rests within your ability to feel connected to the powerful life force within you. In this connection rests your autonomy and choice.
Stay away from labels. Connect one to one.
Third: Moving away from fear and developing awareness of Universal Connection is definitely a situation of two steps forward, one step back.
This is how human beings experience personal growth. Not a straight line, there are curves and bumps often coming out of nowhere.
Imagine a group of 10 people walking down the street together. Each person is in a different place of steps forward and steps back. In one moment, you may feel in sync with several others and then feel you fall behind, then step ahead, then fall behind.
However, if you watch from above, together every person is headed down the road at their own individual pace. Everyone is making the effort to step forward, to live life the way which feels right.
When you are on the road walking and living your life, look around and see that everyone around you is trying to do their best – even those you perceive as having labels you fear.
If you can see the person rather than the label, you can also see that they are doing their best.
Now extrapolate this to your neighbors all walking down the road of life. You don’t need to understand them in order to witness their personal effort. You certainly do not need to agree with them to live peacefully in the same community.
Now enlarge your view to the entire world and see that everyone, whether you know they exist or not, are all walking their path of life. This view is of each individual. This is not a view lumping together people in arbitrary groups done to scare you and stifle your growth on your path.
Many have spoken on this perspective. Written songs. Penned beautiful poems. Ignited the force of personal power through oratory and storytelling.
When you begin to strip off the labels and see beyond, you experience the joy of life and you thrive within Universal Connection just as intended within body, mind, heart, and soul.
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