30 Days to Courage (aka Fear Cleanse) Day Fourteen

 I know this was called a fear cleanse however, enough is enough. 

Let's break this bad habit.

 Remember...

1. What you focus on you expands. 
2. Decide to focus on a higher vibration. A feeling that lifts you up.
3. Start by shifting away from that which no longer serves you.



How?

Simple.  

Take something that recently made you have fear or anger.

Draw the problem in a symbolic, abstract way.

Draw moving past the problem. 




Lastly, draw a positive outcome, a bright side.  A solution.

Focus now on the positive
side of this particular "situation".  

How does it feel? 

Do you feel a shift in your body?

This is healing art.

Draw Breaking Past Fear.

If I asked you to think of the what the bright side of that situation could be,
you problably couldn't think of something. 

It is not always easy to come up with a different point of view from the logical mind is it?
Often we don't even want to. We like our point of view. 
We may even get off on the negative feeling which keeps us from letting it go.

Yet, is it really serving you? Are you happy? 

Remember my original hesitation regarding water?
The other day I went into the Gulf of Mexico again.
The water was fairly calm yet, it was not as crystal clear
as I would have liked. I went in it anyway apprehensively based
on the positive experience I had recently. 
I let myself feel the wave when it came and went without freaking out.

The positive side of being in the water was that I could actually 
feel the support of the water pushing me up. Support.
The support was what I drew in the sand in earlier posts.
It was the opposite of the fear of water.
As I focused on the support, I actually began to have fun.
The water was even much colder than I usualy preferred. I kept
swimming and enjoyed it. I did it! I made progress and felt good about that.

This is the first step to courage. Shifting the low vibration to a
higher vibration helps you to laugh, enjoy and maybe even
look forward to the experience again. A new thought begins to pop
in your head when you think of this original situation that made you twinge.

Today, when you find yourself in a low vibration... anger, frustration,
overwhelm and such, make a quick sketch of what it would feel like
to be past this feeling and feel good again.  A scribble like sketch 
showing the old low feeling moving into a higher good way of being.
Seeing it on paper gives your mind something new to grab onto. 
A newer perspective that the logical thinking mind didn't go to. 

Once you have this new frame of mind...

Declare that you are courageous. 

Declare that you are happy. 

Just for this moment. Taste happiness. 

Allow your happiness to come from the drawing, 

the new possibility even if it only in your imagination.