With Halloween coming up I thought it would an excellent  time for a TME exercise in managing fear.

Fear, pshaw! As easily dealt with as a well swung sword in a zombie apocalypse.  Just takes practice is all..

– TME

When Afraid:

Take a moment to sit quietly and recall a time when you have loved someone or something. Remember this ‘love-feeling’  as fully and in as much detail as you can (using all your sensory imagination | sight, touch, taste, sound, smell) . Don’t just think about it; feel it in your body,  from your neck down. Enjoy and b~a~s~k in this feeling-remembering for as long as you are comfortably and effortlessly able. Repeat as desired and required; this exercise cannot be done too often.

Remember: this is about feeling your love towards someone or something. Not just a person – it could also be an animal, your dog or cat or another pet. If neither of these comes readily to mind there is always nature, art, literature, kindness, generosity or beauty. And last, but certainly not least – and some would profess it be foremost – is yourself. Love yourself.

If you sit quietly, still your thoughts and focus inward, an object of affection will emerge. Focus your attention there.

Also remember that the feeling of gratitude is pretty much identical to the feeling of loving someone or something. Who, or what, are you grateful for?

Another important point: if what you focus your attention on is no longer present in your life, do not shift attention to missing them or it. This isn’t an exercise in longing or missing someone/thing. This is an exercise in feeling love towards someone/thing. Bask in that.

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Another way of saying this might be:

“The relationship of love to fear is the same as the relationship of light to dark”
– Marianne Williamson

Simple? Simplistic? A bit of both?  Won’t know unless you give it a try …and you better hurry! Halloween‘s a- comin’ !!!

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It’s said: ‘practice makes perfect’.

TME says: practicing feeling love is perfection – it is it’s own reward.

Fear be Damned!

Just takes practice is all..