REPROGRAM FEAR TO LOVE

The only certainty we all have in earthly life is that we will one day leave this life. What we don’t know is when and how. One of the possible answers to this question is how we live our lives. Whether in love, benefiting the whole, or in fear and selfishness. Based on that, the quality and length of our earthly life can unfold. If humanity benefits from our existence, from our presence, we may be here for a very long time and die healthy. Or, when our life energy runs out and our time is fulfilled, we can choose to leave. Everything else is the opposite, and either we leave in illness or are involuntarily called away. Illness and involuntary departure from life are much more common causes of our departure. We know this. Many times someone tragically dies, and the way they leave seems incomprehensible to us. Or someone whom we thought was healthy suddenly becomes ill and their departure is very quick. But nothing ever happens that shouldn't happen. Nothing happens without being part of the whole plan. The universe is perfect at every moment. It’s about how we live our lives and how beneficial we are to the whole. So, if we want to leave in health and peace, we must rid ourselves of fear. By freeing ourselves from fear, we remove stress on a physical level and selfishness on a mental level. Without fear in our minds, we begin to live in love. In the energy that heals the body, maintains its balance, and the thoughts and beliefs we hold, as well as the decisions and actions based on them, will benefit the whole. Where there is light, there is no darkness. Where there is love, there is no fear. That is spiritual physics. To understand that we have nothing to fear, let’s look together at what life, death, fear, and love really are.

The pandemic of our time is anxiety. It is a mental illness caused by fear of the future, and its symptoms are psychological and physical diseases, relationship problems, issues in work, partnership, performance... simply in all areas of life. We are constantly afraid of something. We persist in old, dysfunctional patterns of thinking and behavior, even though we don’t feel good in them. The reason is that we fear change. We fear living because we are afraid of everything new and we believe only in what we know. We are convinced that the way we live now is the only possible way to live, and we reject any other possibilities. Then, we cling to the life we live “by tooth and nail,” not realizing that life can be different. As I often say, “life can be lived even in the forest.” We try to maintain our material standards at all costs, as if no other way of life existed. We forget that at times we lived without them and perhaps much more happily. It’s pleasant to have material security and enjoy it, but we must remember that everything is transient and subject to change. Only our ego—the illusion of self created by the mind—identifies with material things, social status, and the need to mean something in the eyes of others. And when something of that changes, it feels as though the whole world collapses. When we free ourselves from ego, we cease being slaves to the mind, and our value as human beings will no longer depend on fleeting forms. Only then will we truly be free and accept everything as it is and what is happening with understanding, love, and without resistance. But these illusory certainties, in which our mind holds us captive, prevent us from changing our lives toward love, joy, and peace. To be happy, to rejoice, to perceive the beauty and simplicity of life. We always have plenty of worries about what may happen, and this prevents us from making decisions to leave the known and take a step into the unknown. To become the creators of our own lives, our positive reality. After all, what could happen? Losing our possessions, social status, job, physical abilities? All of this is transient, and if it happens, it has its reason. And what we cannot see in a mind shrouded in fear is that new opportunities will open up to us. By removing the old, we create space for the new. One door closes, and another opens. Everything that happens in life is for the best, even though we may not see it at that moment.

In the worst-case scenario, we may lose our life. But since we will all lose it eventually, why should we fear it? We have it now, we are here, so let’s live it! Life can be lived in many ways, there are countless realities, and only our mindset and level of consciousness in any given moment will determine what our present will be and what future flows from it. We can ask ourselves: What of what I have experienced in life have I invented? Life is so mysterious and has so many possibilities that nothing we have experienced was invented by us. And yet we are here, and we live. Our life is influenced by our programming and by the lives of everyone and everything else that together creates this planet. So, what do we have to fear when we cannot influence anything that happens outside of us? What we can influence is whether we perceive this external reality through the eyes of fear or love. We can influence our inner setting, which then shapes how we perceive the outer world. And once we know this, we have freedom of choice. We can decide if we want to live in fear and be a victim in our life, or if we want to live in love and be the conscious creators of our life.

No one knows what the future will bring, the future is open. As such, it doesn’t exist; it only exists in our imaginations. We must believe and agree with Osho, who said, “The future will take care of itself.” What we should know, however, is that we create the future through the quality of our consciousness in the present. How we think, feel, act, simply our programming and level of consciousness in any given moment. If we are afraid of something, and fear is just our mental projection, we are creating our future reality. And the thoughts connected to the feeling of fear have a very strong electromagnetic effect, and what we fear, what would probably never happen, is exactly what we will attract into our lives. Fear always leads us in the opposite direction of where we are supposed or want to go. Eventually, it leads us down the path we fear most. That is why the feeling of fear should be our indicator on the dashboard of life, warning us about what we don’t want. If we feel fear in a given situation, we must change the circumstances. Let’s direct our attention not to the external reality, which we cannot change, but to the internal one, which we can always change. The result of inner work will be that we stop fearing, we stop attracting what we don’t want, and with trust, we surrender to the flow of life. After all, we are here, and there must be a reason why we are here.

Fear is the cause of everything that robs us of the joy of life. It is the cause of stress, diseases, failures, negative feelings, and emotions... but is it real? Is it truly the cause of the negative symptoms in our lives, fear, or the mind in which fear is born? The correct answer is the mind. So, if we want to remove fear from our lives, we must reprogram our minds. We must understand that we have nothing to fear, because fear itself, and what we fear, don’t actually exist. They exist only in our minds, in our imaginations, in our reality.

So how do we remove fear from our minds? We all have stress codes in our genetic makeup, in our DNA, as part of our survival instinct. It is supposed to save our lives in life-threatening situations, but it should not be activated in situations where life is not at risk. Fear for life was meant to be a rare experience in our lives, but at a certain stage in the development of human beings and the human mind, it became a constant destructive part of our lives. And here, in this code, lies the root of all our fears. The primal fear from which all others arise. It is the fear of life, and its twin is the fear of death. Maybe it's just, as they say, “a glitch in the matrix,” because the stress code, as a code of life, is part of our survival instinct, but it is coded with the fear of death. The fear of death is its basic and therefore faulty code because it has spread throughout our lives.

If we understand the real truth about being, life, and death, and accept it as our conscious belief, which becomes part of our mental programming, we will no longer have reason to fear, because every fear is, in fact, just a fear of life, a fear of death. So let’s reflect together on what life really is. What are we actually afraid of when we say we fear for our life? And why do we fear death?

We fear death only because we believe that with death, our life ends. At a certain level of thinking, the predominant materialistic mindset of today, we believe mainly in what we can see, touch, what seems logical, and on what there are “supposedly” scientific proofs, what has been shown by science. We see the body, but not the soul. We see the body die, but we don’t see the soul leave. We’re not concerned with how the body functions, how it was created, why it has the shape it does, what gives it life—none of that. At this level of consciousness, the mind tells us that we are only physical bodies. But we are not physical bodies or minds. We are pure being, soul, consciousness beyond forms that animate the body. The body is just the physical vessel, and the mind is just the tool used for the growth of the soul's consciousness, which, as such, is immortal. When we accept this as truth, the fear of death disappears, because only the physical body can die as a vessel; we, as pure being, soul, are immortal. The end of earthly life through death is just a temporary return home to review our progress, integrate lessons, and prepare for another incarnation—birth. And what is one human life in the perspective of eternity? A drop in the ocean of time.

So, if death is not the end of life, why should we fear for our life? There’s no need to fear life; life should be lived while we are here. And how long we are here, no one knows. We will all eventually leave this earthly life, and when we do, we will no longer care about anything, because at that moment, nothing will trouble us. So why should we suffer and fear when we are still here, and we are here to live? We are not here to suffer and fear for life. We are here for some very important and unique reason for each of us. We chose to be born at this time and in these circumstances, so let’s live, act, and express ourselves to fulfill our mission, the reason we came. The universe helps us and creates the conditions needed for us to fulfill our mission. Obstacles will await us, but there’s no need to fear them; they too are part of our growth.

One of the reasons we fear death is also the fear of the death of our loved ones. For our minds, the most painful and difficult thing is to accept the unexpected departure of a close person. Consciously, at the mental level, we all wish that our loved ones would leave after us. But if it happens that they leave this earthly life before us, the belief that they didn’t die, but had to return home for some reason, which our mind, limited by material knowledge and unaware of the spiritual connections of life, cannot explain, will help us. There may be many reasons for this, and perhaps we will learn them when we return home too and meet again. And you will meet again. Because at the level of souls, life is eternal.

At the level of life and death, we are all equal. We are mortal and yet immortal. Our body is mortal, and our soul is immortal. We come from one source, we have the same essence, we are one kind. The fact that each of us is unique, that we look different, think differently, perceive differently, and have our own reality does not change the fact that the body awaits death, and our soul eternal life. Always consciously remind ourselves that all forms are transient. This is the cycle of life. Let us learn from plants and animals to accept with divine peace what is, to surrender without resistance to the present. Let us learn from them how to live and die and how not to make life and death a problem. When we stop fearing death, when we free ourselves from the fear of death, all other fears will disappear. It won’t be us who die, but all our fears.

Zorba Buddha
A person of the new age, spiritually enjoying worldly pleasures—through love, without fear.