While I was journaling my lesson, Holy Spirit talked to me about fear.
Holy Spirit: When you see some form of fear in your mind today, Myron, remind yourself that God loves you. He loves you with a love that is complete and unchanging, that is unaffected by your imaginings. He delights in you and all that you do. He doesn’t know judgment, only love. By using the ego’s fearful moments in this way you are allowing the root of fear to be shaken loose. Each time you do this, fear’s hold on you is permanently lessened.
Me: Of course. I see that when I try to avoid or change what seems to scare me I am just teaching myself that it is real and the cause of my fear. If I am worried about money then try to earn more to alleviate my worry, I have brought myself deeper into the illusion. I have caused myself to believe that the world is real and the cause of my concerns.
Holy Spirit: Yes, that is true. Fear found a place in your mind and the mind created images to explain the fear. The fear came first. The circumstances that you see with the body’s eyes are simply a reflection of this fear. All are within your mind; the fear, the story, the body that seems to be experiencing the story. Healing, therefore, must occur within the mind. Do not worship fear for it is a false god. Turn your back to it, and look toward your Creator Who is Love and does not offer fear. In this way are all fearful symbols relinquished for all time.
Later that day I had a wonderful opportunity to practice what I have been learning. Lately one of our chief competitors has become very proactive in soliciting our customers, and is sometimes successful. I went to see a very large customer and, while he had not bought from the other company, I could tell by his questions, he had been approached.
When I left I noticed how anxious I was. I noticed fear and fear defenses in my mind. Luckily, I had just downloaded NTI and was listening to Matthew while I drove. This was wonderfully helpful to me as I looked at the fear. I also received many thoughts from the Holy Spirit to help me remember the truth.
I remembered that this situation did not scare me. Nothing about it is the cause of my fear. It is the fear in my mind that caused the situation; so correcting the situation will not solve my problem. I imagine it this way: I see a leak in the levee. I put my hand over the leak to keep the water out, and just out of reach is another leak. Yikes, what now? This is what it is like trying to control the effects of the fear I have given a home in my mind.
The only real solution is to turn from the world where the problem is being played out, and to give my attention to the beliefs in my mind that created the story. As I remembered that it is not the story in my life that caused my fear; it is the fear in my mind that caused the story, I gladly asked for healing of the cause, rather than trying to rearrange the effect.
It was hard at first because I couldn’t take my eye off the water gushing out of the leaking levee. It is very hard to convince the thinking mind to ignore its warning system 〈what the body’s eyes tell it〉 and to understand the cause of the problem is somewhere else. So that is why I shut the thinking mind down entirely. It is only a distraction in a case like this.
I repeated my mantra several times. I allowed it to calm me down and take me from my thinking mind to my Heart. There I was reminded of the love my Father has for me. I was reminded that I am not fear. If I were fear, God would have to be fear as well, because He created me like Himself. I remembered to ask Him what I should do, rather than asking the ego mind. I remembered my purpose. My purpose has nothing to do with keeping customers. My job is to extend love to them and my competitors alike.
I had to repeat this or parts of it a few times, but in the end, peace prevailed. It was interesting to note that as I lost interest in financial fears, the ego tried to hook me with bodily fears, then relationship fears. It is a persistent little devil.
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