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There are times throughout our life journey that we experience fear. We have a choice to look at fear through the lenses of our ego or our spirit. The ego will define fear as a threat. The spirit will welcome fear as an opportunity.

Fears that no longer serve our higher purpose may begin to surface. The universe will even deliver experiences that bring forth our fears to help teach us. We can look at this as an opportunity to work through and release the fear (what a gift!) or stay stuck in attempting to run away from it. When we have gratitude for the purpose the fear has served, and shine the light of love upon it, it can no longer exist within us and will pass. When we focus on the fear, or reject it, we see only the illusion of the darkness it seems to create, and it appears to grow.

We tend to collect our experiences and mold our lives and decisions based upon those experiences. In a sense, we hold onto our experiences and subject ourselves to becoming cluttered. God did not intend for us to hold onto all this clutter. An exercise that has been a great blessing for me to work through my fear is to surrender my experiences to God. I share this, as it may be helpful for you.

Picture a tube connected to you extending all the way to Source/God (like the tube at a bank drive through). This tube is your uninterrupted connection to God. Send all your experiences to God through this tube (including your fears). Visualize watching the experiences travel through this tube, without any attachment to them. By sharing and releasing these experiences with God, illusions are less likely to dull your sense of connection. This is a “safe” way to look at your fears, acknowledge them, and release them.