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Love Or Fear One of the things I take from the work of Gary Zukav is that at any given time and in any given action, our motivation is coming from love or fear. This is probably not how he’d say it, and not by any means all that one can find in
It can be surprising how much of our lives are lived with fear as our motivation. We do much of what we do in an effort not to have unpleasant experiences. We fear pain, loss, embarrassment, exposure—any number of things—and will go a long way out of our way to avoid them. We will put off the inevitable as long as we can, making it worse by the day. It is said that “worry is praying for what you don’t want,” and I think that there is truth to that, but worry is more damaging than just that. In worry we experience thousands of times that which scares us. We, in effect, pay it forward and pay for it in the present at the same time. Fear is debilitating, dispiriting and self defeating. Fear is only useful when the house is really on fire. Adrenalin will make you run faster and jump higher, but when those actions are not really called for, adrenalin wears out the body in numerous ways. Fear is not our friend most of the time. Yet, as Gary and others have pointed out, fear and all of the negative emotions cannot be run from, stuffed down or ignored for too long a time. They will only fester and manifest one way or another, often in a worse way than we may have thought to avoid. So, having the courage to face them, be in them and work through them is the only way to successfully deal with them. Love, on the other hand, is motivating, inspiring and empowering. Love releases positive hormones and brain chemistry and by any measure feels better. One step at a time, cultivate love as your motivating energy. Choose compassion over anger, cooperation over competition, forgiveness over resentment and light over darkness. |
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