12 Guidelines to help you Shift from Fear to Love

Twelve Guidelines to help you Shift from Fear to Love
from www.paulferrini.com

1. Learn to bless your own experience and that of others. If you find yourself judging or condemning yourself or others, hold that awareness with compassion until you find that you are able to shift into acceptance of self and other.

2. Be aware of your fear and move through it by breathing deeply and being present with your experience in that moment. By so doing, you take total responsibility for understanding and healing your fear and unworthiness so that you do not project them onto others.

3. Experience your equality with every person you meet. If you think or feel that you are "less than" or "more than" another person, understand that fear is present. Take a deep breath and be aware of the fear and the unworthiness behind it. Then bring love and compassion to yourself.

4. Do not take more than you need to live simply and actively share the rest with others. Freely give to others the resources and encouragement they need to be self-sufficient and to know that they are worthy of love and respect.

5. Every day connect with your Spiritual Essence, feel God's love in your heart and ask to be an instrument of love and peace.

6. Every day, pray for your loved ones.

7. Every day, pray for your enemies.

8. Every day, pray for the leaders of the world that they may open to love and work together to create understanding, cooperation and peace between all races, religions and governments.

9. Every day, pray for the earth and the creatures who live on it. Spend time in nature. Feel the embrace of the earth, her ground and her skies, her waters and her winds. Let every action you take honor her and sing her praises.

10. Know that peace is possible right now in your heart. Know that you are the bringer of love right now in this moment, wherever you are, whatever you are doing.

11. Join willingly with others in the above practices and share in the group energy and intention. Let the shared power of your love vibrate at its full intensity and extend outward to embrace your community, your country, and our planetary home.

12. Know that all minds, all hearts, and all physical bodies can come into alignment and resonance with the power of love. Trust and live in this as a moment-to-moment awareness

If you are willing to live in alignment with these guidelines, please email us at info@heartwayspress.com and we will help you connect with others who are joining in these intentions. Together will build a consciousness of love that will be so powerful it will hold our entire planet in its compassionate embrace.

Namaste,

Paul Ferrini

prayer by Mother Teresa & Missionaries of Charity

Deliver me, O Jesus
From the desire of being loved,
From the desire of being extolled,
From the desire of being honored,
From the desire of being praised,
From the desire of being preferred,
From the desire of being consulted,
From the desire of being approved,
From the desire of being popular,
From the fear of being humiliated,
From the fear of being despised,
From the fear of being rebuked,
From the fear of being calumniated,
From the fear of being forgotten,
From the fear of being wronged,
From the fear of being ridiculed,
From the fear of being suspected.

~Mother Teresa, p. 37-38,
A Simple Path

The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure

- Sven Goran Eriksson

The foolish blame love, without understanding the cause of pain; without knowing its conflict there is no transcending anguish. Without becoming aware of the source of conflict, craving, love brings pain. It is craving, not love, that creates dependence and all the sorrowful issues that arise out of it. it is craving in relationship that gives rise to uncertainty, not love; and this uncertainty breeds possessiveness, jealousy, fear. In this possessiveness, in this dependence, there is a false sense of unity which sustains and nourishes the temporary feeling of well being; but it is not love, for in it there is inward fear and suspicion. This outward stimulation of seeming oneness is parasitical, the living of the one on the other; it is not love for inwardly there is emptiness, loneliness and the need for dependence. Dependence breeds fear, not love. Without understanding craving is there not domination, oppression, taking the form of love? In relationship with the one or with the many, such love of power and dominance, with its submissiveness and acceptance, brings conflict, antagonism and sorrow. Having the seed of violence within oneself how can there be love? Having the seed of contradiction and uncertainty within oneself how can there be love? Love is beyond and above all these; it transcends sensuousness. Love is in itself eternal not dependent, not a result. In it there is mercy and generosity, forgiveness and compassion. With love, humility and gentleness come into being; without love they have no existence.

~ J. Krishnamurti, Ojai public talk, 18 June 1944

Anything connected with fear, a mature person should disconnect
himself from. That's how maturity comes.
Just watch all your acts, all your beliefs, and find out whether they
are based in reality, in experience, or based in fear.
And anything based in fear has to be dropped immediately without a
second thought.
It is your armor.

Chandra Mohan

"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty [contentment?] and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt."

~ Saint Francis of Assisi

a liberated sage

A liberated Sage is free from passion, attachment, fear, anger, egoism. He has a balanced mind and equal vision."

- Swami Sivananda
(From "Chapter: Adhyatma Yoga; Amrit Gita