Fear Mongering. Get off it.

[greybeard]

Dear friends there is a fair amount of fear mongering on this forum.
Get off it.
Why?
A story.
One of my close friends was a Black Belt Karati Instructor, as fit as could be.
He took the advice to get various flu jabs over the years has had numerous health issues since, he was genuinely concerned about getting flu and after all he is over sixty and that age group is suposed to be more likley to die from flu. Is that so?
I doubt it.

Anyway positive thinking boosts the immune system.
All fear without exception reduces the natural ability to avoid illness.

The fight or flight syndrom produces an adrenalin high and then the crash,

Very successful athletes may get nervous but they dont have fear the moment they start performing. Their best performances ocur when they get in the "zone"

If you trace fear down to its ultimate cause, its a fear of death.
Remove the belief that you die and you remove all fear.
If you have the slightest faith that there is life after death then what is there to fear.
If the world ended to morow could you cease to exist? I think not.
So why worry?

Any good spiirtitual teacher looks years younger then their age.
Eckhart Tolle is in his 60s he looks 50. Dr David Hawkins in his 80s and full of life.

Books like "The Power of Now" by Eckhart and "Power versus Force" By Dr Hawkins will hellp to developpe a belief that there is life on going after death of the body.

Power is of the Divine, force is of the ego.
The ego produces and loves fear. Power being of the Divine promotes health and well being.

You have a choice choose wisely.

Im not saying put your head in the sand, dont be aware of what is happening in the world, no im saying be aware of the events of the world but dont get caught up in it.

Papers are sold on bad news,
There is so good news out there but rarely reported because it is so common place that it dosent sell newspapers.

Once we get off the bad news addiction then we might just see a better world.
We tend to attract what we think on.
Think positively then thats what we attract into our lives.
The opposite also applies.

Losers limp explains it well.
I watched on tv an Oxford Cambridge boat race a while back. At the end the winneres were full of life ecstatic. The losers exhausted slumped over the oars. There was only several foot between the winning result and second place (only two boats).
Thats the difference between believing you can win and doubting your ability.

Reporting fact is one thing, drawing all kinds of conclusions from it is different.
Two plus Two still = Four as far as I know.

You will always find evidence to support your point of view, just let go of a point of view and see what happens.

The ego will go to enormous lengths to prove itself right.
Who cares!!! Its a so what!!
Having a point of view is human and fine but dwelling on it and thinking it is the truth and the only possible point of view is unhealthy.

And thats just my opinion
Feel free to differ.

Chris