Unemployment. Marriage struggles. Cancer. Tomorrow is uncertain, but what we do today can bring hope for tomorrow. Diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia I was uncertain if my five year old son would live or die. Through my son's battle with cancer, my husband quitting work without looking for another job for almost a year, my families move to a new country, and many struggles I learned that the Creator of the heavens and earth is able to do far more than we can ever ask or imagine.

The choice is ours. We can either live in fear about tomorrow or we can live victoriously each day turning to God, trusting Him, and anticipating His resurrection power in our circumstance.

Today as the Faith Coach the most common question I'm asked is, "How can I overcome my fear?" For this reason I want to share with you nine Biblical principles that helped me. When I clung to God's word He gave me peace, comfort and strength. And He will do the same for you. It is God's promise to each of us who believes.

"For I am the LORD, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you." (Isaiah 41:13).

Check out the Nine Biblical Steps to Conquer Fear at http://www.thefaithcoach.com/How_to_Conquer_Fear.html/.
Kirsten Strawn, Your Faith Coach

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Thank you Dragonfly Kid, that is just delicious.

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It makes my day that my comment was well-received. I forgot to mention that when you bring the energy in color down into the crown chakra, you see it traveling down the back of your spine, mixing at the base with the earth energy you pull up from your feet and legs, and then the color energy you pulled into your crown is pulled up the front of you and back out the crown. This gives a good chakra cleansing all around.

The longer you do this the lighter and clearer you feel. The classes the Berkeley Psychic Institute gives are great tools for managing energy. They offer lots of different classes to appeal to all different interests, I highly recommend them. I just took the classes, I didn't "join" the progam, because that's when they demand time from you to give free readings at their fairs while you pay them for your service! I guess they have to make a living, but the classes are good and affordable.

Uma, thanks for sharing that quick technique with the palms on the earth. I'm gonna use that! This is great, sharing information. :)

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Dragonfly kid that is a wonderful visualization practice thank you so much. I can only add that to cleanse oneself after spending time with fear or any other draining energy, illness and death. when ready to release the buildup simply putting ones palms against the earth and exhaling it all out through them into her who neutralizes all energy and uses it to make the flowers grow. You never have to censor any nastiness, earth knows what to do with it all, and a simple thank you when finished does the trick. As Dragonfly Kid also reminds us that then that energy should be replaced and the sun source of life and light is where to go for that. Whenever we ground we bring ourselves into the present which is the ground for us psychologically speaking. I know when I am anxious by the sensations, an increasing heaviness in my chest and abdomen; shame and guilt bring that sensation to a peak, shame especially feels strong there. Happy cleansing everyone. Uma

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as someone who has had panic attacks and is a recovering agoraphobic - that would be me! - this article rocks. is it hard? yes. is it worth it? yes x forever!

fighting fear - guilt, shame, remorse, the list is endless - is exhausting. thoughts whirl and twirl and spin in your mind until you are almost broken. not only does the mind twist, the body twists and tightens into knots of pain.

practice is the key. then more practice. practice until you no longer realize you are practicing. slowly, surely life will get better.

karma

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When you are deep in the pit of all consuming fear, it seems that there will never be a way out. It doesn't matter if the fear is real or imagined, it consumes every part of you. During just such a time for me, I instinctivly did almost what Deepak suggests, I simply let myself be completely with the fear. I felt it physically, emotionally, and spiritually. I let it grow as big as it wanted to. Then I began to notice something; the bigger I let the fear get the more dilute it seemed to get, and the bigger I, my energy, self, or whatever is my essence, became until I felt so expansive that the fear seemed a million miles away. The fear no longer had the power and control over me.
Now, when I am afraid or worried about something, I do this exercise, as well as some of the techniques Dragonfly Kid mentioned. I feel much more in control of the energy of fear as well as my reactions to it.

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Those are good techniques, Dragonfly Kid. Thanks for sharing!

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Thank you, Deepak, for another great article.

"Guilt is a tremendous obstacle in this regard, and so is shame."

Both of those are forms of fear. Guilt is the fear that you've done something wrong, and shame is the fear that you've fallen short of the expectations of others and/or yourself.

Thus it is that fear builds upon and perpetuates itself. First you are afraid of something or other, and then you become afraid to let go of that fear, and so on. It is so easy to get drawn into a vortex of fear from which escape seems impossible.

Your approach to liberation from fear is about the best I've ever seen. Rather than flee (fearfully) from fear, which only ends-up compounding the fear, we instead plunge ourselves headlong into it. Fully feeling our own fear and taking that negative energy into our own hands and redirecting it are about the most courageous things a person can do in life, and they are indeed the keys to our liberation.

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I learned some great techniques from The Berkeley Psychic Institute. These techniques have proven very valuable to me.

Visualize a cord going from the bas of your spine to the center of the earth. Each time you create it, make it something different to bring it into present time. It could be a tree trunk, a wind chime, or a beautiful piece of fabric. ANYTHING. Picture the energy that doesn't belong to you going down the grounding cord to the center of the earth. As you see this in your minds eye you start to feel the unwanted energy move out.

Picture a big gold sun over your head. It collects all the energy you left around on your travels and gathers it all up for you, bringing your energy back to you. The sun neutralizes your energy and makes it clean.

Picture the gold sun coming into your energy field and into every cell, chasing the unwanted painful energy away.

You can also pull earth energy up through your feet or pull universal energy of different colors into your crown.

You can spend a few minutes or hours.

It sound crazy, but you will feel a change.

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Thank you, Deepak. This could not have come at a more needed time for me.

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