Confidence is an asset in today’s world for sure. However, this confidence will need to come from “the inside out”. Why? - Because if you are looking to the outer world to provide your sense of peace or to validate you, you are in trouble.
In fact don’t hold your breath or it truly will be your last one! If you are focusing on the external world, the world of the media, what others are saying about you, or trusting in your job for security, you are being driven by fear.
Fear. An acronym for fear is “False Evidence Appearing Real”. Why false? First of all, rarely is anything as it appears. For one reason, what you see in a situation in general is going to be based on your own perceptual system or unique wiring. My reality and your reality can be very different. This is due to our core belief system.
If you have wired yourself, even if it is unconsciously, to expect the worse, you are going to find the worse in any given set of circumstances. This is because the brain and mind act like a missile seeking machine in its ability to find what you are expecting to find. This has to do with the sophistication of your nervous system to screen in what you believe in and screen out what you don’t. This can explain why two people can have an opportunity staring them right in the face and one person sees it and takes advantage of it, while the other one either totally misses out by thinking that it is either a “scam” or “too good to be true”.
One of the most important things that you can do to develop your future prosperity is to deal with your limiting thoughts and beliefs. Dropping old emotional baggage is not only critical to your happiness, it is crucial to your overall health and well-being – “spirit, mind and body”. It is time to turn the spotlight onto fear.
Fear is wired into your physiology from eons of time, and passed on even into your genetic pool. Between this and the external world’s focus on what scares you, everything from lack mentality, disease and the threat of rejection, you have plenty of reasons to be unconsciously run by fear.
Your fear button will be easily pushed until you wake up and learn to take conscious control of this process. I know from personal experience. Fear use to run my life in so many ways, from “survival of the fittest” mindset, to phobias of bees.
Thankfully, now that I’ve dealt with healing on the level of integrating “spirit, mind and body, by applying spiritual principles along with using my science and psychology background, I no longer see the world as threatening, nor am I afraid of bees!
As you deconstruct these limiting beliefs, clusters start to drop off the “Fear Vine” that had grown in your mind! The more you up root, the more the vine dies. So, if you are worried about the economy, losing your job or whatever else the media is focusing on, remember that you have within you a Power to derive core confidence that overcomes the limited thinking of the world.
You can begin to wire your brain with new, constructive, expansive thoughts and this will ultimately lead to the creation of new opportunities and experiences. So instead of focusing on fear and worrying about what you hear on the news, consider the words of the great philosopher and teacher, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
As Emerson said: “The wise man in the storm prays to God not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Start to master your fearful ego, and you will be able to live in the world, but live apart from its fear factor that squashes your creativity, vitality and prosperity. True confidence is an inside job!
