WHY ARE WE SO AFRAID?

This was posted on a blog I follow, and it is just perfect. This blackboard gets erased every day - which is the perfect way to deal with fears:

1. Acknowledge them. Fears are a very real, honest emotional response to many things.

2. However, 99.9% of the time, our fears are of something that might happen - that is possible, at least in our mind, but it HAS NOT OCCURRED yet.

Some fears are life-saving - fears of heights, weapons, dangerous situations can keep us alive.

But most fears ARE NOT OF REAL THINGS, they are of POSSIBILITIES which can APPEAR real to our minds and thoughts.

So I love the image of simply wiping them out.

Your thoughts cannot hurt you unless you allow them to.

TANGIBLE THOUGHTS

I have created my own little display of the observation "Any time spent being unhappy is wasted."

It is impossible for me to ignore - mainly because it has my granddaughter's face as the background (Colin's face is on "You don't need to see the entire staircase to take the first step").

But today too much time was wasted.

I found myself at home, alone, with no one around to bother, interfere and/or irritate me - well, other than the greyhound, who considers that her livlihood.

And letting myself get bothered and irritated.

By what, you may ask?

Thoughts. Stupid, preventable, changeable thoughts. Which I have complete and absolute control over.

When am I going to finally learn (and REMEMBER) that 99% of our reality is simply between our ears?