To live in fear is an unhealthy state of mind, as fear is one of the most powerful negative emotions – one that will actually rule your life if you let it.  Fear separates you from the Universal Power.  It causes a block in the flow of the spiritual energy within you.  Allowing fear to control your consciousness guarantees that you will experience ill health in some form.  Mental anguish may be the most obvious form, but deep-rooted fear is most likely the cause of many serious diseases.

Identifying or recognizing the fears in your life is the first step toward dealing with them.  We fear so much, and it is fear that causes many of our problems today.  One of the most common fears we find when working with patients is a fear of losing or never attaining happiness.

Fear and other negative emotions cause the production of endorphins in your body, and your body must respond.  The response is often negative.  According to animal experiments, some endorphins may cause the growth of tumors and impair learning or memory.  Blair Justice, PhD., has conducted studies showing that “alpha-endorphin and other opioid peptides secreted under inescapable stress suppress the function of T-cells in the immune system and reduce the effectiveness of NK (natural killer) cells.”  Natural killer cells are key in protecting the body from the development of cancer and viral infection.

There are also cases of people who are literally “frightened to death” by terrifying experiences that do not cause physical harm but produce emotional shock or intense anxiety.  J.M.T. Finney, a professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins, has publicly reported that he would not perform surgery on people who believe they will not live through it.  In addition, Theodore Miller, senior attending surgeon at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, reported the following to the Society of Surgical Oncology:

“After operating on several patients who expressed great apprehension and fear of death, only to have them die despite what appeared to be a normal operative course, I no longer operated on a patient who expressed the fear that he would not survive the operation.”

You may feel that your life is out of control, and you have no choice but to be afraid.  However, you do have a choice.  You may need to reevaluate your conditions or situation.  Determine what your true fears are and take action steps to eliminate these fears.  You may need to write down your options or list the pros and cons in your life.  Take a good look at your life and determine what changes or steps need to be made in order to rectify your situation.  Tackle one thing at a time.  The best way to handle your fears is to face them head-on.

It’s all about you.  You have the power; you have the Universal Power within you.  When you know this, your fears may be abandoned.  You will have the patience to allow the power to work.  You will be able to give up your fears and depend on your faith as you enter the new state of knowingness.

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