Fear or Trust

Fear is setting in all over the world today, a new pandemic virus is spreading all over the globe. It looks unstoppable, it may spread into every community on earth.  What does this mean for life as we know it?  Two out of 100 people who get this may die. Where will our collective psyche go on this issue? We have a choice, do we move toward fear or trust? Do we trust the life force in the human being to overcome this threat? Or, do we get bogged down in fear and weakness? These are some of the questions one could ponder regarding this latest health risk. We know that fear can make us incapable of thinking straight in a rational way. Under the spell of fear we can't critically think and look at the big picture . A people living in fear will give up their freedom for security, but in the end it only leads to slavery to the tyrants that rule them. They will have neither freedom or security.





What is fear? Is it a creation of our thoughts ? Is fear an emotion we feel, caused by thinking, when we project our mind into the future or past? Is fear caused by, a fault in our dependence on our finite individual abilities, and a lack of trust in the life source itself.? Or is it "Fear" itself that we fear? How do we face fear? Can we stand our ground and stare it down? I experience fear as a feeling that comes over me, a dark force of some kind . I feel it in pray and meditation often. I just observe it with my inner eye and see it as separate from who I am. I stare it down in a meditative state . I don't judge it I just observe it . It loses its power on observation and it dissipates like a morning mist.

The mind loves to concentrate on a problem. The stock market crashed 12% . (Update on March 31 stock market crashed 35 % over the past 2 weeks) Fear over this virus has taken over, on a global scale. Everything is connected, with global markets, the internet, travel...what happens in China affects us here in North America.

When there is a threat like this, which involves all humans on earth, in 2020, it tends to create unity in our collective consciousness, and that's a positive effect. We may be connected mentally over the internet, but, in a pandemic crisis, the first response by authorities is physical separation of those with the virus. In quarantine we become forced into isolation.  Nations restrict travel, towns and cities are in lock down. The global trade supply train slows down.  Everything can grind to a halt, in a worst case scenario.

I guess its only human to feel fear. Even if you are not concerned for personal life, you have family and friends who may not be able to survive this, possible threat. So, from this perspective there is lots to be concerned about.

Regardless, of our concerns, life has its own intelligence. Humans have been moving too fast, for too long. Knowledge is growing faster then wisdom. Humans have been living in too much Yang and not enough Yin on a global scale. We have become absorbed in much doing, without a proper balance of introspect. A forced slow down may do us all good.  When we slow ourselves down, and find balance, even in isolation caused by external forces, we may find an inner unexpected peace that passes understanding.

What is trust? It is the opposite of fear.  I say to myself often, when confronted by the latest arrows of daily fear.thoughts..I live by grace, trusting in Life powers, which I do not understand. I don't have future, there is only now. These type of affirmations cause the fear thoughts to fade from our attention.

This life force which runs the 'Life' program seems to have an infinite intelligence, and endless capacity for love. (Love in this cosmic sense is the cooperation of polarized forces for the good of the One Life).

When we do not realize this life source, in the body and  at the core of our being, we do so  at our own peril, we live a life prone to dis-ease.What does it mean to trust Life?  Grace is the spiritual freedom, we feel  in our inner being when we realize that life is a gift. Life comes through grace, its unmerited, we do nothing to deserve it. We don't have a life, we are life. For a time in space, Life moves in an individualized unit, in a biological vehicle. When the earth biological unit eventually fails, its energy source, the Life force is released from the form.  This life energy does not die, it is not a body, or a localized, separate, mind,  it merely transforms into a new state which we cannot know. Can we trust something we do not understand? This is the choice; we can live in fear, depending on the power of the little 'me' and its ability to run its separate life program or we can trust the true Life source with its super life program? This is something completely outside of the understanding of our intellect.  It comes down to Fear or Trust. The road less traveled is  this complete Trust in an indefinable life force. Trust in this mystery of Life may not bring an absolute certainty to the analytical mind but neither does fear-based living, with its anxiety.  Personally, I would rather live in trust then in fear.


 

Here is a link to another post on trust 

Trust

It was 36 degrees C, with very high humidity. I had walked across the airport tarmac to a small 19 passenger commuter plane that would fly from Sarnia to Toronto. It was so unbearably hot as I sat in my seat . I thought the AC will be turned on soon and it will get cool. I could feel a tension coming from other passengers. I could feel an anxiety arising within the body. The mind wanted to be in control. There was a problem and it needed a solution, my mind was saying. So, there was a choice. Can the mind be trusted?, which always needs to be in control and in this case it would surly lead down a path to high anxiety.  Or, can there be a trust in the universal intelligence that is greater then 'I'?.  Sitting  there, just observing anxious  thoughts and the body's reaction to those thoughts was revealing,  the whole body and mind was tense. The hand kept moving the vent to try and get some air flow. The thoughts were saying the AC is broken , you are going to suffocate.  The plane door closed and what air flow was coming out the little vent stopped completely, as the pilot started the engines.. At this point , the thoughts were trying to get control of the situation. but an amazing thing happened . A trusting of the power that controls all of life began to take place. I began to watch the breathing of the body and the muscles all over the body  began to relax . There was an acceptance of what was , all anxiety disappeared . A trust came over this whole being and I was able to relax in this sense that all is well. I felt as if what I refer to as 'self'  was not just in this body but it was also outside the body. The plane took off and the air was flowing again but it was not working well in the extreme heat. I felt that my being was everywhere, it extended outside the aircraft. I felt a total peace. Life or death  had no meaning anymore. There was just this awesome presence of peace that passes all understanding. The thirty minute flight was over so quickly and we landed in Toronto. This was an experience of trust. It was a choice to not believe thoughts but rather to trust in the  intelligence that is greater then the little 'I 'of a separate self. There is a universal self and we are all it. Trust it and  a newly perceived world opens up. This greater sense of Self is always there but we cannot see  it clearly. When we learn to move beyond the thinking mind  and see life as it is , we realize there is no separate self , everything , everywhere is all one being.