Fear… The Final Frontier!
April 11, 2011 by admin
Filed under Spiritual Growth
Are you afraid of spiders?
I have to admit, I AM!
So what is fear?
Fear is an emotional response to a perceived threat.
It is rarely based on sound judgement, and is usually a result of our very overactive imaginations, which somehow have the capability to think the worse.
Anyone who has learned to swim will tell you that fear causes you to sink. Lack of fear allows you to float. Even if you go down it will be temporary and you’ll soon bob back to the surface.
A novice swimmer was baffled by the fact that he had difficulty keeping his head above water, while experienced swimmers didn’t have such a problem. They would swim effortlessly while he struggled.
That was until the instructor said this: “You sink because you don’t trust the water to keep you up. You’re afraid that if you let go, you’ll go down.”
In order to change you first have to let go of your fears which are always a product of past experiences.
Until you choose to change and do things differently, you will continue to get the things you have always got.
Nigel Ipinson-Fleming
Emerge Me


