How do I want to live in a fear-based world? I want not only to survive in such a world, but play a small part in releasing the world from the grip of stiffling fear. Fear has served humans well. Fear has protected my ancestors from dangers and has helped them to overcome the perils of scarcity. Humans have managed to control the basic dangers of living and we have created an abundance capable of sustaining us all.
However, fear prevails. Some humans have hoarded the plenty we have managed to create, and have created an illusion of scarcity. Demagogues create the illusion of peril and fan the fear of loss. Our news media broadcast their messages of fear, creating a fear-based environment all around me.
My antidote to fear is to embrace the power of love within me. I have the energy of the universe within me and it manifests itself in the dynamics of love. The more I am mindful of this powerful source of love, the more I am able to contradict the stifling force of fear. By embodying love, I become a radiating source of healing energy to the world around me. I want to embrace everyone and everything close to me and beyond. I want to share the energy of love that resides naturally in me.
Fear has been a natural part of the human condition. But we have evolved to a level that fear no longer serves us or our future. We all have the power of love in us, a trait we share with the whole universe. I choose to embrace, use, and extend that power within me. I choose to no longer be an agent of caution.
The age of fear has passed. Fear is out of step with the evolutionary plan for the world. We are in a new age when the love response is more in tune with the progress of humans, and those who grasp at fear are a relic to be put aside. Those who spread and cling to fear belong in the past, not in the future. I refuse to be guided by fear and the perpetrators of fear. I choose to be a change agent that frees the power of love into the world. I refuse to live in a fear-based world.