Handle and Release Your Fears for Good!
By Michaiel
Patrick Bovenes
The greatest obstacle we encounter with stress and anxiety is the fear of the future. This fear has always been surging in the hearts and minds of man. The unknown has always threatened the ego with self doubt and produces restlessness, anxiety and insomnia. It is important to decide what you are going to do with your fear and self doubt around issues of your future. Will it be the foundation of your future? Or will you transform it's energy into new power to augment a future that can resolve your negativity and fulfill your dreams and desires?
The choice will be yours, it always has been. Unlike the past, however, you can be more conscious of your choices. Too many in our world will wait and see what the future holds, this is were powerlessness and insomnia emerge. A successful person doesn't wait and see what the future holds but begins focusing their mind on a vision of the future even in the midst of chaos and crisis. What future vision do you hold in your mind? If you don't have one, then the anxiety of the unknown can produce insomnia and added stress in your daily life. It is easy to begin dreaming of a life filled with love, joy, happiness and success? If not, why not?
It is vital to begin thinking, imagining and feeling the promise of a future that is positive. For that is where all creation and peace of mind begins.
Nothing exists in this world without first being in the imagination. In many ways your imagination is the birth canal of everything in the world. Think about it. The shirt your wearing, the computer you are looking at had to first be in the imagination of someone before it could be made physical. The same with y our future. Not consciously thinking and imagining your future is a way to remain powerless and to create added stress and restlessness in your life.
We each have many potential futures that loom upon the horizon. Both light and dark. It is up to you to dismantle your potential dark futures and to energize the positive ones. Unfortunately, fear sells and some people are fixated upon their negativity. We tend to identify ourselves by our negative patterns of living. Too many hold a self image as something they've done, versus who they really are.
For instance, some people hold an image of themselves as an alcoholic or recovering addict. That may be a part of what they've done in their past... but it is not really a part of who they are. Because you've experienced it doesn't make it who you are, unless you choose to hold onto that identity and thus limit the possibility of your future. You can't afford to continue giving your power away to your fears and to fill your mind with negativity. What you decide to fill your mind with today is going to build the future you live, tomorrow.
Avoiding the potential fear and negativity that life presents is the not answer to this dilemma. That is just another tactic fear uses to run your life. Avoidance doesn't resolve your personal negativity it only augments it. Our ego likes the simple answer and thus will run and hide from anything negative or unpleasant, erroneously thinking it is "being positive". Avoidance is always born of fear. Love seeks to understand your fears or negativity and then to transform them. It is this approach that truly resolves fear and can give birth to a deep sound sleep.
Changing the Course of Your Future:
1. Write down your dark future. The most hideous and negative future you can imagine. Think about it. What is the darkest of futures that could possibly happen to you? Homeless, cancer, betrayal, abandonment, humiliation? Think about what your ego has as its fear-based future. When you don't bring this fear to consciousness it often feeds your anxiety and keeps you restless and awake.
2. Write down your light future. What is your personal dream? What could be the most positive future you can imagine living? Expand the possibilities in your mind and heart. How would love manifest in your life? Think of the joy, peace and success of living an abundant life. What kind of relationships do you want to have? Career? Financial security? Spiritual fulfillment? Open and dream of the possibilities.
3. Unplug the negative and activate the positive future. This third step is so powerful. It is a meditative technique. Close your eyes and imagine a bubble hovering in front of you. Like a large crystal ball that holds within it the energy of the dark, negative future that you fear. Look inside and see your life as pure hell. Where the darkness prevails and everything goes wrong. Imagine it, feel the fear and panic, sorrow and pain. Get involved emotionally. When you can't stand it anymore. Say out loud, "NO! I take my power back from this future. I refuse to create this negative reality!" Sense the future becoming weaker and falling apart. Like you have dismantled the foundation and it is crumbling. Because that is exactly what you've done. Choice is the foundation, as you consciously choose to NOT create that nightmare then you begin automatically taking back your power.
4. Empower the positive future. While still in meditation, imagine you are popping that dark bubble. Having gathered your power from it, create another shimmering bubble filled with light (the positive future). Step into this bubble and imagine the most beautiful, successful and love filled future you can. Stretch your mind and feel your life becoming a magnificent expression of joy and love. Imagine you have resolved all of your negative problems and are joyously living your destiny. Sense yourself surrounded with rewarding friendships and loving relationships. You don't have to see the details as much as you need to feel the energy of this future that holds all of your dreams and desire.
5. Connect with your future self in your imagination. Imagine that you now stepping inside of this bubble and connecting with your future self. How would you like to be in the future? Confident, trusting, alive, abundant, happy, successful and at peace. You don't need to know what you will be "Doing" as much as choosing how you are going to be "Being". I want to BE happy, free, alive and vibrant. Choose the state of being first and allow the form that it will take to manifest in alignment with your destiny. For some being happy might involve being "in" a relationship, for others it might involve being "out" of a relationship. That is the form, which is important, but choosing the essence of your being is critical to manifesting your dreams and desires.
This technique can work miracles in your life. I have used it personally for several years and it has always brought about positive changes within my life within 3-4 days of the experience. The secret is to face your fears, and say no, take back your power and give the power (like electricity) to your positive future and then expand the feelings of love, hope, peace and joy. Feeling it in your mind and heart is more important than visualizing it. The choice is yours. Insomnia is fostered by feeling like there is nothing you can do. Hopelessness and despair are at the root of what many experience as insomnia. This technique will give you what you need to begin to resolve this dilemma.
Don't wait and see what your future is going to be, a nightmare or a dream. Both potentials are possible. Choose for yourself a personal dream. Your personal future sculpts and creates the collective future of mankind. The choice is yours and this is how you can make a powerful choice to begin again and to resolve your insomnia once and for all!
-Michaiel Patrick Bovenes is a personal empowerment coach, healer and professional speaker and teacher. He has a popular series of guided visualization meditations, he calls, "Soul-utions". He offers classes and words of wisdom in many articles published in various magazines and ezines worldwide. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA. Visit Michaiel's website at: www.Michaiel.com for additional contact information.
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