Fovercoming

EAR
by Choosing Knowledge Over Ignorance

Overcoming fear is one of the greatest feats a person can achieve. To do it,
however, we must understand where fear comes from.

THE SOURCE OF FEAR

Fear is caused by ignorance or not knowing. We typically experience it

when we enter unchartered territory—when we are facing the unknown.

For example, one person may be afraid of talk to a stranger, another is

afraid to ask for a raise and a salesperson may be afraid to make a sales
call.

Stop for a moment and think of how confining that is. A person is putting
themselves into a small cell they’ve created in their own mind—the doors
aren’t locked.

Below are graphic illustrations of how to get out of that mind space and
walk away to freedom.

PICK A SIDE

Take a moment to study the first illustration.

 This is showing you that there is always thought power (spiritual energy)
flowing into the top half of your head—the conscious mind—and you get to
choose what you will make of this power.

Regardless of what is going on around you or what you are subjected to,
no one or nothing can cause you to think something you don’t want to
think. This is where freedom comes in.

When the thought power flows into your conscious mind, you can choose
to see what is wrong with it (the negative or ignorance side of the diagram)
or you can choose to see what is right with it (the positive or knowledge
side of the diagram). However, you cannot see both at the same time. It will
always be one or the other.

W H AT H A P P E N S W H E N YO U L I V E
THROUGH YOUR SENSES

We’ve been programmed to live through our physical senses. So, we often go
through life looking at the conditions and circumstances surrounding us, and as a
result, we end up worrying or doubting ourselves.

As you can see in the graphic below, worry and doubt are on the left side of the
graphic, the ignorance side. They occur when we take the power that flows into our
conscious mind and we use it to focus on the current circumstances in our lives.

Because we’re choosing to focus on what is, we can't see how our circumstances
can be turned around. We can't see the good in our situation, and we start to doubt
our own ability make something positive come out of it.

Worry and doubt is a psychic disease on a conscious level, and the cause of it is
ignorance—not knowing we can choose another outcome.

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WORRY/DOUBT
FEAR -
ANXIETY
SUPPRESSED
DEPRESSION
DIS-EASE
DISINTEGRATION
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Let’s look at an example.

Let’s say a person has financial obligations that are due soon and they don’t have
the money. If they focus on the lack of money, they will start worrying about it.
That's the worst thing they could do because they turn that worry over to their
subconscious or emotional mind (the bottom half of top circle in the diagram).

When the worrisome thought, the negative idea, is turned over to the emotional
mind, it turns into fear, which is a dangerous emotional state. James Allan wrote in
his book, As a Man Thinketh, "Fear has been known to kill a person quicker than a
speeding bullet."

Here’s what we really want you to think about: Fear is a negative energy that we
create. It always starts out as pure unadulterated spiritual energy that has no form
when it rolls into our consciousness. It’s our choices that give it form.

But, in the example above, because the person is focused on not having the
money to cover their financial obligations, they started to worry.

When that happens, we internalize the doubt and we get emotionally involved with
it. This causes us to feel fear. Fear sets up a vibration in the body that is more
commonly referred to as anxiety.

When a person experiences anxiety, they generally try to suppress it. However,
suppressing anxiety, which is negative energy, sets up a vibration—a mental
state—called depression.

Ultimately, that depression is expressed in the physical body as disease, which is a

body that's not at ease. Disease causes the body to do the only thing it can do
when it's in that vibration – it starts to break down.

W H AT H A P P E N S W H E N YO U L I V E
THROUGH YOUR SENSES

A person worries and doubts because it's part of their paradigm. Some people
have been conditioned to operate with doubt, worry, fear and anxiety. So, it's how
they spend most of their lives.

The alternative to this comes from thinking from the inside out. It is on the other
side of the illustration, as you can see in the graphic below:
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UNDERSTANDING

+ FAITH
WELL-BEING
EXPRESSION
ACCELERATION
+ AT-EASE
CREATION

The opposite of ignorance is knowledge or understanding that we choose what

type of thoughts and ideas we create from the unadulterated power flowing to
and through us.

This understanding can be developed in only one way—through studying books or

working with a mentor. You can't buy it, you can't inherit it, and nobody can give it
to you. Understanding must be developed.

H OW T O D E V E L O P U N D E R S TA N D I N G

One thing we must understand is that everything has an opposite. So, if we're
looking at the down side, we must understand there is also an upside.
Understanding enables us to look at and see the good side of any situation.

To illustrate, let’s return to our earlier example where the person didn’t have
enough money to meet their financial obligations.

With understanding, rather than filling your mind with worry and doubt, you could
visualize the money coming to you. You wouldn’t know where it's coming from, but
you would see it coming. That's a positive idea, and you can impress that idea upon
your emotional mind and mentally create the vibration called faith.

The best definition of faith we have ever heard came from Clarence Smithson, a
man who was in charge of equal opportunity with the World Book Organization
many years ago. He said, "Faith is the ability to see the invisible, to believe the
incredible, and that will permit us to receive on the physical plane what the
masses call impossible.”
 First, see the invisible
So, you would see on the screen of your conscious mind the money that you require
coming to you. Or you’d see the health that you're asking for. Whatever it is that you want,
ask for it and let the image of it register on the screen of your mind. See the invisible.

Then, believe in the incredible.

It is incredible to understand that we can take any image in our conscious mind and
impress it upon our subconscious mind, and it has to accept it. The subconscious mind
has no ability to reject. It can only take what we give to it and begin to move it into form
with and through us.

Here’s something else that is incredible. Whatever you impress on the subconscious mind
must be expressed. It is like the earth. It does not care what you plant. It will return the
seed of a carrot into a physical carrot.

Likewise, in the subconscious mind, the image of the good you desire is a spiritual seed,
and it will, by law, grow into physical form. Earl Nightingale put it so well when he said,
“This great dream, this surging, dynamic thing, invisible to all the world except to the
person who holds it, is responsible for every great advance of human kind.”

Understanding universal laws is vital to our success. For instance, it’s so important to know
that everything has an opposite and how to work with the creative process to create the
good that we desire.

We must see the good we desire coming to us even though we have no idea how it’s
going to happen. We must get emotionally involved in this idea. That is where the faith
comes in. Whatever you impress upon the Universal Subconscious Mind must be
expressed in form.

As you can see in the last graphic, understanding is expressed on the physical level as
well-being, the opposite of what is expressed from fear and anxiety.
The state of well-being manifests in a body that is in a healthy vibration. The energy is not
being suppressed – it is being expressed. You can see it in the way people walk. You can
see it in the way they talk. You can see it in the way they meet and greet people. You see it
in their every activity.

When a person is in a state of well-being, instead of disintegrating, the body is in a

positive, creative state. This goodness that's being expressed accelerates because their
whole being—the conscious mind, the subconscious (emotional) mind and the
physical—is at ease.

It’s in this state, a state of well-being, that we can create the good that we desire.
 SHIFTING FROM THE LEFT TO THE RIGHT

Before we close, let’s review the left and right side of each of the illustrations:

N E G AT I V E VS POSITIVE

IGNORANCE VS KNOWLEDGE

WORRY, DOUBT U N D E R S TA N D I N G
VS
& FEAR & FA I T H

ANXIETY, WELL-BEING,
VS
SUPPRESSION, EXPRESSION,
DEPRESSION, & A C C E L E R AT I O N ,
DISEASE & AT- E A S E

D I S I N T E G R AT I O N VS C R E AT I O N

Learning to think properly heals all the negatives on the left side of the graphics.
Fear can transform to faith. Anxiety becomes well-being. And disintegration
becomes creation. This is the law of our being.

Keep these opposites in mind and keep studying. It's so beautiful when we start to
understand how to use our minds to keep fear from stopping us in living the life of
our dreams.