Home | About Us | Contact Us

Submit Articles | Member Login | Top Authors | Most Popular Articles | Submission Guidelines | Links | Free Ebook

Business Career Internet Marketing Technology & Science Legal Marketing Travel Sports Writing Animals Automobiles Computers Computer Programming Entertainment Environment Family Food Health & Medical Home & Garden Humor View all Categories       Forgot Password?    New User? Please enter your Email Id: Welcome to FreeBizTopics.com! ALL » Technology-&-Science >> View Article "Love & Fear Are Two Sides of The Same Coin" By: Perry Akasha Lonsdale REPRINT GUIDELINES =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You are free to publish the following article in it's entirety in your eZine or on your website. Our only condition is that you MUST keep the information about the author,(c) notice and resource box at the end intact. Please let us know when you use an article by sending us an email... mailto:howto@leanmarketingpress.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Word Count: 878 Character Width: 60 Resource Box: How To Do Life at www.BookShaker.com =========================================================== "Love & Fear Are Two Sides of The Same Coin" - by Akasha Lonsdale (c) Akasha Lonsdale. All Rights Reserved. http://www.BookShaker.com =========================================================== LOVE = EXPANSION FEAR = CONTRACTION "What the world needs now is love, sweet love...that’s the only thing that there’s just too little of...". These are the opening lines of a great song and it’s true. What the world needs now is love in its broadest sense because when fear, hatred, desire for revenge, intolerance and anger are present – Love is missing. Fear and Love are opposites. Fear is contraction of the heart (not great for physical wellbeing!). With fear, possibilities are fewer and life can feel very narrow and restrictive. LOVE Love holds hands with Courage to overcome Fear. Love is at the core of our being. We don’t have to find it – it is and always has been within us, tucked in the inner recesses of our Being. Sometimes the journey to “re- discover” it, can seem a long one and yet there are moments when we glimpse it totally and may not even recognise it. For example: - Beautiful images "that lift our spirits" - The birth of a baby - Children really laughing - Strength in adversity - Being with a loved one at a special moment - A beautiful starlit sky - The unconditional generosity of another - And many more... Love is not soft and soppy. The love I refer to embraces Honesty, Integrity, Respect, Open-ness, Being Real, Truth, Courage, Authenticity, Joy, Generosity, Laughter, Stillness, Freedom, Clarity, Willingness, Sharing, Compassion, Empathy, Compassion ...and Tolerance. It is a felt sense – the sense of expansion – when the heart feels full. When love is present, tenderness and strength co-exist. People may be moved to tears by its power but tears can be of joy and relief too. We may feel vulnerable but this is the paradox: VULNERABILITY IS TRUE STRENGTH. How can that be? Because when we are vulnerable, we are open, exposed, REAL. We are in the flow of the river of life, not swimming against it. We surrender, we fall into ourselves and within we find the Love that is there – has always been there – the eternally burning light. The light that is. The light that will never go out – no matter how dark life sometimes gets. It is said that the “darkest hour is just before dawn” – many times though, great insights and change come after a “dark night of the soul”. DRAMA AND TRAUMA It is as if we create the drama’s and trauma’s in life to challenge us to look within and begin taking us back to that place we know. A time of “re-membering”, “re-joicing”. The parting of the 70,000 veils – to reveal the inner treasure – LOVE. No judgements, no criticisms, no anger, no bitterness, no recriminations. Just Love, all embracing, all encompassing, all knowing, never-ending Love. Love that cradles us like a parent with a new born child. Love that holds us in our pain. Love that sometimes creates the pain so that we may grow. Love that wraps around us like a beautiful cloak. SELF AWARENESS As you journey with yourself, get to know yourself better, be kinder to yourself, more open, more generous, tolerant, compassionate with yourself, so you become that way with others. It is a natural evolutionary process. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." Through this process barriers can be broken down, conflict resolved and communication become authentic. Win/Win is possible when Right/Wrong are not part of the equation. THE SHADOW Then we point the finger at others, when we label them Bad or Evil...we have missed the point. By focusing outwards on how others seem to be, we don’t look within. We don’t acknowledge the shadow parts of us. The parts that can be spiteful, vengeful, angry, dismissive, shut down, rejecting. We like to think that we would never behave like "they" have behaved. But...there is always a potential killer in us. A mother to protect her child is a classic example. Often we dress our shadow in a mantle of self-righteousness and self justification. Worse, we just believe that we are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT and all views opposed to ours are WRONG and BAD. Then Love is lost and we are in a contracted place. INNER PEACE = WORLD PEACE These are turbulent and frightening times...but as with all adversity it contains the opportunity for us to learn and grow. Take time to look within yourself. "Know Thyself" said the Oracle at Delphi- ancient wisdom that is even more important in our modern world. Change is happening at an incredible rate...let’s make sure that it’s powerful change to create a world that works for everyone. You can read more about how to do this, in Perry Akasha’s book "How to do life – powerful pointers for powerful living". Packed with practical information, insights and ideas, numerous tips, easy to follow How To’s and Pause Points, this down-to-earth, reader friendly book is essential for anyone who wants to be more effective in their life and relationships. She is co-founder of The Empowering Partnership which offers a range of powerful, life changing personal development workshops in the UK and overseas as well as corporate consultancy. She is currently training as an Interfaith Minister and working on her next book "Down to Earth Spirituality" ======================================= Did You Ever Wish There Was An Instruction Book On How To Do Life? Well There is! Buy "How To Do Life" by Akasha Lonsdale at http://www.BookShaker.com ======================================= About the Author Perry Akasha Lonsdale is a businesswoman and psychotherapist with over 30 years experience that includes senior human resources, training, facilitation, consultancy, GP and corporate counselling, executive coaching and inspirational public speaking. Total Views : 330    Word Count Appx. : 915 See All articles From Author

AP - Israel's military says it has suspended its Gaza offensive for three hours to allow aid and fuel into the embattled Palestinian territory.

AP - To a public wary of government spending, President-elect Barack Obama is offering a salve with his massive economic stimulus package: the promise of long-term fiscal discipline.

AP - Senate Democrats are looking for ways to defuse the standoff that has denied Roland Burris the vacated Senate seat of President-elect Barack Obama of Illinois, but maybe not much longer.

AP - Russia has shut off all its gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine — the latest move in a pricing dispute that has reduced or halted fuel deliveries to a dozen countries during a winter cold snap.

AP - "We have three foreigners, including women," the gunman said into the phone. The response was brutally simple: "Kill them." Gunshots then rang out inside the Mumbai hotel, followed by cheering that could be heard over the phone.

AP - President-elect Barack Obama's reported choice for surgeon general, CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta, could bring a dose of star power to a job that hasn't had that much clout in decades.

AP - The world economy is in dire straits, but you sure wouldn't know it from the red carpet at the 20th-annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala. The actresses were dripping with jewels, actors donned high fashion, and logos of jeweler Cartier and automaker Mercedes-Benz loomed large behind all as they posed for photographers.

AP - Aluminum producer Alcoa Inc. is cutting roughly 13 percent of its global work force by the end of the year as it slashes costs in the face of a deteriorating world economy.

AP - Tulsa and No. 23 Ball State both had the best seasons in their respective programs' history. Only the Golden Hurricane felt particularly good about it Tuesday night, when they appeared faster and stronger on both sides of the ball and rolled to a 45-13 win in the GMAC Bowl.

Reuters - Israel and Hamas studied an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday that won immediate backing from the United States and Europe, hours after Israeli shells killed 42 Palestinians at a U.N. school.

Reuters - Investors who lost money in Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion fraud might begin recovering some of their funds as soon as next month, Securities Investor Protection Corp, President Stephen Harbeck told Bloomberg in an interview.

Reuters - The chief of Pakistan's powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency has said there will not be a war with India over November's militant attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai, Der Spiegel reported. Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shujaa Pasha told the German magazine in an interview terrorism, not India, was Pakistan's enemy, and he said he took orders from the civilian president.

Reuters - Russian gas supplies to Europe through Ukraine shut down completely Wednesday, leaving growing numbers of European Union member states without Russian fuel in freezing mid-winter temperatures.

Reuters - Thousands of Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge "Killing Fields" marked 30 years Wednesday since the fall of Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist regime, blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people.