Stop All Fear

Do not plan or create fear. When we worry about tomorrow and what could happen, what could go wrong, we create fear. When we think we have to prepare or plan to defend ourselves in case of attack, we create fear. When we speak to others, our words can create fear when we invent fearful outcomes rather then building confidence.

I ride my bicycle everyday to the mailboxes to pick up my mail. One day a neighbor said to me “you be careful, you could crash and break your collar bone just like Dottie did”. She was creating fear. The fear of falling was planted in my mind, which could have caused an accident. What she thought of as concern, by the way she worded it, created fear.

One thing I have noticed, as we become senior citizens there is so much directed toward us from television, magazines, and organizations regarding how fragile we are. How easy we can get hurt, how we need help, more medications, how we have poor health, brittle bones, bad vision, bad teeth, failing memory. We are prone to accidents and mishaps, etc, etc, etc. If you listen to all that garbage, the fear would be so great you would not be able to get up in the morning. It is a wonder we can function at all. And I started receiving this propaganda with I turned Forty , that is 40 I am talking about , they didn’t even wait until I was Fifty-five. Whatever we think about, we create. Why create fear?

I pride myself on the fact that even if I am a senior citizen, I am active, think young, enjoy life and try every moment to create health, not sickness, laughter not sadness, happiness not fear.

I just took a senior driving course and after I was finished they had told me I was so accident prone so many times that I was almost afraid to get in my car and drive, even though I have never had an accident or ticket in my 52 years of driving. Oh, wait, once I was rear-ended at a four-way stop, by a young person.!!! Certainly, these driving experts are trying to prevent accidents but I think they are overdoing it just a wee bit. The point I am trying to make is, they were creating fear and if I had allowed it, my confidence in my driving could have been weakened.

Words create. When we create fear with our words, we are blocking the fullness of our lives. Our minds are constantly creating, constantly thinking. Do not let it be fear we create. Let’s create confidence. Let’s create love, joy and happiness instead of fear. Let’s reach out and do everything without fear.

‘If a man harbors any sort of fear,
it percolates through all his thinking,

damages his personality,

makes him landlord to a ghost.”

                                                                 Lloyd Cassel Douglas

Peace and Joy to All