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Facing Fear

The brain is designed to keep us safe from anything that can bring harm or death. Sometimes new experiences can feel like critical situations for the body. However, a vulnerable ego doesn't always align with a physical threat. Often the only danger we face, when trying something new, is the chance of wounding our pride.

It is the responsibility of the conscious mind to override the biological response. When it comes to taking a chance to improve your life, you may find that failure simply means ending up in your current situation. For example, you interview for a job and don’t get it.  Keeping this is mind, stagnation should seem scarier than branching out into the unknown.

Sometimes there are greater risks involved, such as financial loss or even safety. Make a plan to minimize your losses and try. Try your idea on a smaller scale. Try with a friend. Find a mentor and try. Decide to try something else that makes more sense. The point is try. Trying something new broadens your viewpoint. Our negative assumptions of a foreign situation usually differs greatly from reality. Once we are exposed to a new experience, we begin to release the influences of our limited perspective.

Fear of a non-physical threat is a socially constructed response. We generate our ideas of right, wrong, dangerous, and safe based on our cultural conditioning and past experiences. We are challenged to dissect our beliefs about what keeps us secure and expand our way of thinking. Today, we are able to quickly access information that debunks superstitions and traditional taboos. We can easily find evidence of people safely going against the grain. We have proof of those who have survived and thrived while taking the road less traveled. Often these trail blazers were alienated and doubted. Surly there were fears they had to overcome. However, their connection to the unseen forces and internal wisdom guided them through.

So how do we approach fear rooted in culture and lack of knowledge? Explore more. Learn more. Challenge yourself to go beyond the surface and investigate the topics that pull at your core. As we gather information, it is important to use discernment. Information does not equate to wisdom. Wisdom is reflected in shrewd analysis based on experience and spiritual connection.

Take the information you find and meditate. Have a conversation with your spiritual guides and allow the truth of a subject to rise to the top while the fluff falls away.

Fear is a gift because is illuminates our weakness. It directs us to the places where we need to develop more discipline and understanding. When we don’t know which direction to move in our life, we should look deeply into our fears. What is at the core of our troubles? This is the area to move into next. Imagine that life is a game in which you are only meant to gain more wisdom, expand your strengths and fortify your will. What a blessing fear is to show you exactly how to achieve the high score of this round of soul development.

~Kenda Rae

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Light and Dark

None of us are as bright as the sun. We bask in her light, we reflect her glow, but as the recipients and not the source, we are destined for periods of darkness. Learning to understand and embrace the internal journey is a major step in our growth. Consciously reflecting on the lessons that we are immersed in, instead of longing for the light, allows progress. When we avoid the darkness, we miss the opportunity to experience our inner source of clarity.

Anatomically, the eye works the same way. Our pupils dilate in search for the light in the darkness. When the light returns, our pupils contract letting less light in. We have discovered in the darkness the capacity to see more then we previously thought possible. We are not as dependent on illumination from an outside source. We already possess the capacity to go deeper and see clearer, if we continue to seek to understand our reality when things are not so bright.

Over the years, I have learned to think of my challenging periods differently. In the midst of these trials, it is not always easy to see the infinite possibilities of positive outcomes. But something remains in me beyond seeing. There is a knowing that trouble doesn't last for always. We live in a world of rhythm, sound and silence, light and dark, day and night. We need to experience the opposite to have an appreciation for the entire picture.

I believe we have this human experience to know ourselves and our source. Possibly, both god and humanity are learning their depth through creation and accomplishments. To observe ourselves we need to reflect from another perspective. In order to experience the All we need to separate.

We cannot see the spectrum of colors in white light. Not until we divide white light through a prism do we get a small picture of what is contained in the combined source, the All. Our human family, plant family, the elements, emotions, energy, ether, and thoughts are all fractals of the one source. Scattered to give us a glimpse of what the All contains, In this sense we are all God. Learning itself though the dispersion of itself.

A prism can only separate the light when it is present. The light will go back to being the all inclusive white light if left undisturbed. The colors of the rainbow eventually return the the whole combined source. We are like these varying vibratory streams longing to reunite. We experience the call to merge in the longing for food, music, sex, love and connection on any level. We see, if left undisturbed, we will find ways to form connections to our environment. The more we connect in any one area of life, the deeper we tend to gain some form of spiritual understanding.

When we are passionate about a particular path, we are more likely to be committed to the process of maturation and discovery. As we grow, we experience reoccurring themes that appear not only in our chosen pursuit, but also in other aspects of life. These are often referred to as universal laws. For example, the concept of honoring life's rhythms can be learned as a teacher, stay at home mom, farmer, or financial investor. The importance of balance can be learned in a relationship, while cooking, taking a yoga class, managing money, painting and designing clothes.

In our darkest periods we will naturally gravitate to the aspects of ourselves that need rebalancing. This does not mean we understand how to proceed in this area of our life. As the world becomes more inundated with information, this can become very challenging. We are able to access information that supports every school of thought, whether it moves us closer to or further from our life goals. Periods of silence are advisable. This time should be used to balance the nervous system, calm emotions and observe the clutter of the mind.

I believe we all have unseen assistance. This could be our higher selves guiding an aspect of our consciousness through a simulation. It could be deities, spirit guides, angles, demons, or advanced beings that connect though telepathy. Whatever your belief system, there is information beyond our current understanding that is available for us if we take time to listen. Instead of longing for the light, walk bravely into your inner world. Sometimes we hear clearest in the darkness.

Much Love and Growth

Kenda Rae

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