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Be Still — New Way To Conquer Your Fears

Conquer Fear

Back in 1934, the author and lecturer Emmet Fox wrote an essay about how to conquer fear entitled, “Be Still — A Treatment Against Fear”. It is freely available on the internet. Read it for yourself. Print out Psalm 46 from the Bible and use it to follow along as you read the entire essay. He breaks down Psalm 46 verse by verse, going underneath the surface of the words in that beautiful Psalm. In this post I will attempt to condense the gist of the essay through my own understanding of it.

Fear Is A Stalker

Mr. Fear is a debilitating stalker — always lurking and smirking in the background. He is always ready to use any set of circumstances in your life to take your attention away from God and on him. This is the way he gains control of your inner thoughts and emotions. His end game is to take control of you. It is the way he “gets off”. Through listening to the whispers of this SOB, you then go on to obediently accept restrictions, continually rehash old grievances, and focus constantly on what is wrong in your life. You dwell on the problem. Thus you generally manifest for yourself a vortex of ongoing worry and anxiety that sucks you down a rabbit hole of misery.

A Ready Solution To Fear

Within Psalm 46, you are offered an ready solution to the malevolent whispers of fear. The way to conquer Mr. Fear is revealed in Psalm 46, Verse 10 — “Be Still and Know That I Am God.” There is a lot of symbolism contained in this Psalm. A lot. Much meaning under the surface. The essay by Emmet Fox goes into detail about what it all means.

The way that it is suggested that you conquer your fears is simplicity itself. You must however, fully commit yourself to do it. You must do more than just agree with it. It is necessary to do more than just talk about it. You cannot “dance around the maypole” with it. Discipline your mind to do it every single MF day of your life.

The Solution

The object of prayer is to raise your consciousness of the Presence of God in you, through you, around you. You must believe in God as your God. Dwelling within you always. Your refuge. Your very strength. Not just with words but with a relentless belief, a knowledge. When you experience a feeling of doubt, of terror, of despair, of fear, you must make the choice then and there to tenaciously cling to the thought of God, the One True Presence. The Kingdom of God is within you. The problem or problems that you are facing, cannot withstand your constant indwelling of the Presence of God. Fear will recede like a rain puddle recedes as a result of the continuous rays of the sun. It has to because it cannot resist the Presence of All That Is.

To conquer fear, it does mean effort on your part. You CAN rid yourself of this bastard, Mr. Fear, but there is work involved on your part. You have to make the choice to just commit yourself to this method and the work that is involved. But — Oh those beautiful rewards. Those beautiful rewards that stand patiently waiting for you. They are worth your work many, many times over. Even if you have six problems coming at you at once, just make the choice. Make what you know about God, the focus of your thoughts…morning, noon and night.

Is What You Are Doing Now Working For You?

Is what you are doing now working for you? If so, good. Stay on that path. If not however, then you know that you have nothing to lose by trying this method of conquering your fears. Refuse to accept restrictions. Refuse to rehearse grievances. In your mind, refrain from dwelling on the problem. Entertain just one visitor to your mind — the omnipotence of Eternal Supreme Intelligence, God.

It is hard to stop constantly going over those problems and worries, I understand, It is hard work, especially if you are in pain. But, you can do it. You must do it. If you will just fully commit yourself to focusing on the Presence of God, The I Am That I Am, you will conquer Mr. Fear. If you persevere, no matter what, you will begin feeling within you an inner joy and peace that you never thought you could ever experience. It will probably come when you don’t expect it but it will come. An inner peace and joy that is not dependent on outside circumstances. You will be free. It is a glorious feeling.

Be Still – Know That I AM God

From Psalm 46 – “Be still and know that I am God”. What a beautiful, incredibly powerful verse. Not a passive “doing nothing” but an active and potent recipe for whatever trouble you are in, whatever fears you have. Always remember this eternal truth – the Kingdom of God is not up there or out there or over there – the Kingdom of God is within you. Within you. Can you grasp the actual meaning of those glorious words from the mouth of Jesus Christ?

An Acronym To Remember

Here is an acronym for you. Ten attributes that emanate from the Kingdom of God, the eternal I AM. The acronym is: LITE-PPPP-IC. Dwell on these wherever you happen to be. Let them flood your mind. They all perpetually exist within the Kingdom of God. When you dwell on these attributes, you are dwelling on God. Mr. Fear despises it when you do this because it means, if you persevere, he will ultimately lose his control over you.

Love – deep affection, deep devotion. The strongest energy force in the universe.

Intelligence -everything there is to know.

Truth – pure and simple, truth is what is.

Energy – the pure light of the universe

Prosperity -the universal cornucopia.

Power – relentless, unrestrainable force.

ComPassion – we are all one. what helps one, helps all, helps you.

Peace – a knowing stillness; being centered in the Presence of God.

Imagination – to see what you want to make real.

Creativity – to make real in your mind what you see

Dwell on the Presence of God within you. Don’t look to the right. Don’t look to the left. Refrain from looking at your problem. Look at the I Am That I Am that lives within you. If you are able to maintain the rays of the sun by being still, in steady faith, the waters will recede. Mr. Fear will fold up his tent and go after easier pickings elsewhere. He will have no choice. He simply cannot coexist with the power and peace of the Presence of God.

Mr. Fear Will Exit The Scene

Keep your focus on the Presence of God. Your problem or problems will in due course be overcome. Sometimes quickly. Sometimes little by little. Perhaps they will be overcome in the way that you expect. Or perhaps in a way that you never expected. If you do your part however, the problem will be successfully dealt with. You will have the ability to be still in all circumstances. And Mr. Fear will avoid you like the plague and go after the one who focuses on him. You will enjoy that beautiful peace, that success, that you deserve in your life. Try it for sixty consecutive days without fail. Experience for yourself the power of Psalm 46 – Be still and know I am God. Once you get that taste of the inner peace through practicing the Presence of the Divine Eternal, fear will have no place in your life.

Conceive. Believe. Receive.

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Take Time To Look At The Clouds

Cloud Watching

I recently completed a five part series of posts about recollections from my childhood in the late fifties, early sixties. As I was looking up at the sky the other day, I realized I forgot to mention the underated activity of “cloud watching” that I used to do as a kid. Cloud watching is a wonderful summertime activity that puts a stop to all other thoughts and cares. It gives you a refreshing pause, a “time out” so to speak, in these days of ever-increasing daily activity and ever-growing things to do lists. Sometimes, doing absolutely nothing can ironically be the most productive thing that you can do for yourself. It lifts you out of your “duties and responsibilities smog” and allows you respite that your spirit definitely needs from time to time. In theory, daily prayer time is supposed to be that time where you refresh your spirit, resting in the presence of Divine Providence. A lot of times however it doesn’t work out that way as we have a tendency to look upon prayer as just another daily chore to accomplish and try to stuff it with as many petitions and “I’m sorry’s” as possible. If you think about it however, clouds and the sky are part of God’s creations, part of God, if you will, just like all of nature. If we spend some time dwelling on the clouds in the sky, we are kind of doing what we should be doing in prayer, resting in and dwelling on God.

Modern Day Shepherds

It has been said that the constellations in the night sky were first visualized and named by shepherds who watched over their flock at night to keep the sheep safe from predators. With nothing else much to do by look up into the night sky, they saw different groupings of stars as representative of different beings (mythical gods and animals) as well as inanimate objects (think the Big Dipper constellation). When I was young, I used to do my best cloudwatching over at the empty grass outfield at one of the baseball fields in our town. There was an area in the outfield that had a small rise. I would lie on the grass with my head on the rise and lock my two hands behind my head. Maybe alone or maybe with a friend. The clouds had to be like the image above. Then as the cloud formations oh-so-slowly moved by, I would look at each one and visualize each cloud being something else. I might see a giant, or an ocean liner, or an oddly shaped horse or King Neptune himself complete with trident. It was just best if you let your mind relax without a care in the world and just let your eyes see what they chose to see. Sometimes you would come up with some really weird scenes but almost every cloud formation brought some new image. Then as one formation eventually left the scene, new ones would drift into play. Everything else in the world melted away as you just focused on the clouds, with the blue sky providing an excellent backdrop. Sometimes you would look at a particular cloud formation from a different angle and get a totally different picture of something else than what you originally saw.

Be Still and Know That I Am God

One of the most famous verses in the Bible is found in Psalm 46 — “Be still and know that I am God”. Looking at the word “still”, it comes from the Hebrew word “rapah” which roughly translated means relax, release, cease. To stop all frantic inner activity and simply sink into a resting in the presence of God. To sink into the silence found deep in our hearts and be still. In that very stillness, the Holy Spirit will meet us and invite us to experience the “peace that passeth all understanding”, that inner peace that deep down, every human being on this planet truly desires.

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17 Seconds of Your Life

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“I’m too busy, maybe later.” “I just don’t have time for that now.” ” Can’t they see I’m juggling a half dozen things now as it is?” “Sorry, I’ve got too much on my plate.” “All jammed up now, can’t talk.” “Estoy demasiado ocupado.” We say these types of words to ourselves (or to others) on a regular basis. What it means is that whatever it is that you’re too busy for, is just lower on your personal scale of importance. You place a higher priority on whatever it is that you are doing. The higher the priority to you, the more you are going to spend your time on that activity. For example, if you are under water without an oxygen tank, are you going to say, “Air? I’m too busy for that right now! Maybe later.” Unless you are trying to drown yourself, you are going to get your ass to the surface and fill your lungs with air…priority # 1.

Are you too busy to devote seventeen seconds to living the life you deserve…a life of creating your own reality so that it is something that gives you peace, power, joy, fulfillment and every other good thing that you can possibly think of? If you are too busy, then please stop reading this immediately and go do whatever it is that you do. If you are willing to begin with an initial investment of seventeen seconds, then read on.

Your life is molded by the daily vibration of your inner energy. It really is. The higher the vibration, the more you magnetize to you the things that you desire. Luck, fate, events, circumstances, the weather, where you live, your rich Aunt Clarabelle, the shirt that you’re wearing are all secondary to that vibrational rate of your life energy. Vibrate high…get good stuff. Vibrate low…get crap.

Start today to vibrate your energy higher. It only takes seventeen seconds to create an energy linkage with whatever you want in life. Seventeen seconds is a start. The longer the linkage in terms of time, the stronger the attraction to you of all types of good things. Step out of whatever you are doing and step into a pool of “feeling good” about something for just seventeen seconds. Practice with a timer or stopwatch. When you have seventeen seconds down pat, move on to a little longer. You really do have the time..unless making your life better is just not that important to you.