Mental Diet: Mankind’s Greatest Enemy – Fear (Part 2)
Fear is a mind game that derails people out of the success path.
Two words rule the world. And every human being is subject to either of these words at every moment. These two words exist at the opposite pole from each other. The presence of one indicates the absence of the other because both words can never function together.
One word is full of positive energy which attracts positivity and possibilities while the other word is full of negative energy which attracts negativity and limitations.
Every human being has a foretaste of these words operating in the mind and its outworking in life. One of the words is more powerful than the other. In fact, where the most powerful word functions the lesser word bows and flees because the most powerful word reigns supreme.
These two dominant words that dominate life are Fear (the lesser) and Faith (the most powerful).
Faith is the antidote for fear. Faith attracts success; fear attracts failure. Faith attracts the positivity in life; fear attracts the negativities of life.
However, fear is not altogether negative. There are two kinds of fear; the preservative kind of fear and the destructive fear.
The preservative kind shields us or makes us take precautions against harm and danger. For instance, I believe you wouldn’t love to stuff junk food into your body system even if you enjoyed the junk food because of the health risks of doing so. Therefore, you make the choice to eat a nutritious and well-balanced diet to ensure good physical health.
The consequence of breaking the traffic law breeds the fear of violating traffic laws which helps you comply with traffic laws.
Most importantly, the negative consequences of breaking moral principles (whether you are caught or not)should breed a healthy fear of breaking moral principles which makes you live in alignment with moral principles producing a clear conscience that gives you the ability to manifest confidence and success.
The reverential fear of God makes you a reference point to your world, and it is the right kind of fear we should wholly embrace because it harmonizes your life with excellence, making you achieve wholesome and balanced success that echoes through to eternity.
The destructive or unhealthy kind in itself is to be dreaded rather than what is feared. The unhealthy or destructive one feeds on negative information that you give attention to and is magnified by the imagination.
At this time in the timeline of life, we are being bombarded with information overload, where you can get an abundance of information with just a click; and a great deal of this information is full of negative energy which breeds fear in the minds of people.
The news headlines are no exception as it seems negative happenings dominate the headlines. Indeed, negative information seems to spread further and farther than positive information. With the increase of crimes, terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and economic downturn-the list seems endless, it is no wonder that fear has become the mainstay in the minds of many.
Coupled with the fear that had been programmed in our minds from childhood through our experiences and what we have been exposed brings to bear an envelope of fearful thinking patterns that manifests itself in worry, anxiety, fright, dread, guilt, and even phobias; all these shortchanges our lives.
To push back our fears, we must step back and evaluate them.
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