Miracles News

January-March, 2011

Two Ways to Let Go of Fears

by Rev. Sharyn Zenz

As we get closer to the holidays, it seems that my fears of lack seem to creep into my thoughts more and more. It is also the time of the year that property taxes are due. So, my ego seems to work overtime at this time of the year! Whenever I am not at peace and these ego thoughts start to creep into my mind, these are a two of the exercises that are very helpful to me:

1. I sit quietly with Jesus and picture myself in a classroom. Then, I picture myself writing on the blackboard every fear thought that has been cropping up in my mind. I talk to Jesus about them and ask Him to help me forgive myself for thinking those mistaken thoughts.
He is always so happy to answer my requests when it comes to forgiveness! He says He really wants me to get it — that I am innocent, along with everyone else. He reminds me that the opposite of Love is fear, and if I am constantly aware that I am holding His hand, I would remember the Love and forget about the fears! Since our Father only knows of Love, there is nothing else. So all those thoughts I have been dwelling on are false and can never be true since only Love is Real.

Jesus then hands me an eraser and asks me to go to the blackboard and erase all of those mistaken thoughts that I have been having. He reminds me that all I ever have to do is erase the mistaken thought and remember only the Love that I am and that is true forgiveness. Wow, this is powerful to me. I then walk away with a clean slate and if thoughts of lack, or fears of what if’s, or how is this going to happen, enter my mind, I quickly remember the eraser and picture myself erasing all of those thoughts. It is amazing how easy this is to do and how it really works!

2. Sometimes at night if I wake up and am going over and over in my mind some thoughts of a particular incident or thoughts of not having enough to pay this or that, or whatever the thoughts are that are keeping me awake, I get out of bed and stand up. Then I bend over as if I was going to touch my toes, and I stay in that position picturing all those thoughts emptying out of my head. I remain bent over until I feel that all the thoughts are completely gone.

When I stand back up, I ask Holy Spirit to “please fill my mind with only thoughts of You. Fill it with the thoughts that You would have me think.” I then sit quietly with Holy Spirit, and you know it is amazing that they really are gone and I can’t even remember what thoughts I was ruminating about! Try it. It really works.

Today as I sit here writing this article, I am reminded that even though this world seems real — it is not. Even as I think of everyone else and they seem separate from me — they are not. We are all connected to God and we are all one Light. As I remember to extend the Light that I am to others and help them to see their Light, this world is filled with more Love and more Light. Even when I think of getting a job, or where am I going in 2011, I am reminded that my only job is to extend the Love that I am, and the only place to go is within.

Rev. Sharyn Zenz is a Pathways of Light minister living in Luxemburg, Wisconsin. She serves as the Office Liaison for Students/Facilitators at Pathways of Light.

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