Love conquers fear

And paper beats rock.  Lol, I don’t know, just popped into my head.  Anyway, I had an extensive conversation with a friend last night about what had happened the night before.  She was thinking that what I picked up on was the large amount of fear in the world, and that I wasn’t in any real danger, though my brain would disagree.  It was either that, or old fears coming to surface.  She recommended sending love out into the world to fight the fear and help heal the world.  I wasn’t sure how much of an opportunity I would have, but kept it in mind.

When I went to bed I first tried to meditate.  Wow am I out of practice!  I need to do this much more often.  As I was meditating, wierd fears popped into my head.  I mean, irrational bizarre things that would only happen in horror movies.  For instance, the ceiling fan falling off the ceiling and killing me.  It’s impossible, I learned that from mythbusters.  Finally, I stopped and said, “These aren’t my fears!”.  I decided to fight back.  One of the most useful things I’ve learned in the past few years is that you can’t make something go away, but you can replace it with something else.  So I tried what Melissa recommended and focused on love.  I took some deep breaths and opened myself to the universe, focusing on people I love.  Then, when I felt like I was surrounded by warm love I focused on the important people in my life and sent them love.  After a few minutes I drifted to sleep.  My fears were successfully conquered and I slept better than I have in days.  I’m still tired because I’m behind on sleep, but it wasn’t nearly as stressful.

So thank you Melissa for the advice, and hopefully others will find this useful too.