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Soul Sustenance 08-05-2013
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Overcoming Fears Connected With Negative Past Experiences
Some of our fears arise due to the situations we have lived through; for example,
if you are driving a car and you have an accident. Then you take some time to drive
again, because the memory of the accident awakens the fear of having another one
or reliving the one you had. The person that has never had a car accident gets in
the car with confidence, because they do not have that scene recorded, since they
haven't lived through it.
There are fears that we carry within us that are not of the present. Something happened
to us in the dark and we are now afraid of the dark. Fears in relationships: you
opened your heart, you fell in love and, after a time, you experienced pain, you
felt hurt, misunderstood, manipulated, deceived or mistreated, and now you no longer
open your heart for anything; it is closed off with the shields that you yourself
have created. To overcome this kind of fear due to experiences you have lived through,
you have to come to terms with your past and accept it fully. You cannot change
your past; lamenting the past doesn't help you; complaining about the past doesn't
benefit you. Those shields brought about by fears do not disappear unless you do
a deep cleansing. Begin to heal your experience of the past. Part of the past is
healed with forgiveness. Without forgiving, you cannot forget.
(To be continued tomorrow …)
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Message for the day 08-05-2013
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To be free from bondage means to be able to fly.
Projection: Sometimes we find that we are not able to progress as much as
we should. We also find that we are not able to be light in all circumstances. At
such times we might blame the situation and just stop making effort, as we cannot
see the real cause for our lack of progress.
Solution: We need to understand that the lack of progress that we are experiencing
is not because of the situation itself but because of our own weakness that is like
a bondage. When we recognise this fact, we will be able to know the right method
to overcome our own weakness so that we will then be able to fly forward.
In Spiritual Service,
Brahma Kumaris