Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label courage. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

When Courage Roars (Or Meows)


Positive emotions originate from love while negative emotions stem from fear. Fear is a powerful emotion because it’s genetically linked to the survival instinct. Our bodies become overburdened by fear’s unnecessary stress on our systems. The stress hormone cortisol becomes elevated, we are unable to relax, and our immune system becomes weakened.


Emotional energy attracts like, as in, fear will attract fear. While we do attract who we are, that can also be used to attract positive. Courage attracts courage. To generate the flow of positive energy you must first initiate positive energy. Send out positive signals in order for those in the same or similar frequencies to gravitate towards your positive emotional energy.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love back into our hearts.  ~Marianne Williamson

Last week I talked about how frustration can teach you patience, the same can be applied to fear teaching you courage. Fear places you in a position to test your bravery. Fear places your unresolved emotional baggage in the forefront, brings it to your attention, which then allows you the space to confront and work though these emotions. Without the fear you might not have been mindful of the work to be done or simply avoided it. Without the fear you wouldn’t have the opportunity to courageously explore your fears. Courage lessens the hold that fear has on you.

No matter how strong of a hold fear may have on you; love is the greatest force of all.



Hugs,

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Wishcasting Wednesday: What do you wish to know?

Thank you for joining me for this week's Wishcasting Wednesday. If you'd like to join in this magical circle of dreamers and doers, please visit Jamie Ridler Studios.

What do you wish to know?


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 This is an easy one for me because I was just thinking yesterday how I wish to know courage.


In the ebook, From Passion to Profit, Rebecca Leigh quoted from Brene Brown’s book, The Gifts of Imperfection with this touching definition of courage:

The root of the word courage is cor – The Latin word for heart…Courage originally meant, “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.”

Don’t you just love that? 

I wish for courage.  I desire to share a piece of my heart with each of you. I aim to open my heart, my soul, to you and speak the secrets, truths, and aspirations that my mind whispers to me in the sweetest of my dreams.  To demonstrate the bravery of being my authentic self and the courage to know that it’s okay.