The opposite of love is fear but that which is all-encompassing has no opposite.
The Course in Miracles
The avoidance of fear will cause fear to persist and, the acceptance of fear will cause its release. Why?
Fear is an emotion and emotions are our response to life. Life is a free-flowing process and if we interrupt the flow by avoiding and denying our emotions, our emotions do not disappear. Even unfelt, they still exist and will do whatever is necessary to overcome our avoidance and denial of their existence.
Interior denial leads to exterior crises—continued denial leads to continual crisis.
Accepting and feeling our emotions will release them but denying and avoiding emotional response will cause those emotions to persist; and persistently denying those emotions will ultimately result in a crisis powerful enough to overcome our resistance.
This is why the acceptance of our emotional response is so important. If we deny emotional response by avoidance, our avoidance will result in a continuing and escalating series of crisis that will ultimately overcome our denial.
This is not the way we want to live life and is not the way life was meant to be lived. Buckminster Fuller said that life evolves by learning from mistakes, see http://www.flighttogenius.com/mm_ebook.pdf. We can correct our mistakes. While it may not be easy to now accept our denied emotions, it will be far easier than not doing so.
Love is acceptance and unconditional acceptance of our emotions will return us to the natural state of unconditional love.
It is now time to accept our emotions and the gifts that full emotional acceptance will bring us—love, abundance and joy. Allowing full emotional acceptance will uncork the cornucopia of life. Doing what we have not yet done will bring us what we do not yet have.
We are collectively entering a period of extreme crisis which will express itself in economic, ecological and spiritual terms. There is a way to navigate this crisis in a way that will bring release, not suffering; but to do so, we must first learn what the crisis is trying to teach us. This approach does not deny the power of positive thinking. Thoughts are very powerful but so is denial.
Author's Bio
BA Political Science University of California at Davis, 1966
currently writer and lecturer, focus on paradigm shift
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