FW: There is Nothing to Fear, You are Safe |Deepak Chopra

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Adapted from Why is God Laughing? by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books,

2008).

In modern life we are taught to respect fear as an essential

contributor to our survival, a biological signal that alerts mind and body to

approaching danger. But the ancient sages of India taught that fear was born of

duality; when human beings realized that they were no longer part of God, they

immediately became afraid of what might happen to them.

In the 20th century, after two devastating world wars and the

advent of the atomic bomb, this haunting insecurity was promoted into an

inescapable fact of life, which came to be known as existential anxiety. You

and I are children of an era when simply to be alive seemed to be taking the

ultimate risk.

As a result, we fall prey to anxiety about who we are and where we

belong.

On the spiritual path you can completely recover from such

anxiety. By rejecting fear a little at a time, you come to realize that life

isn’t constantly at risk. You are safe, you are seen, and you are cared for.

Moving from fear to fearlessness requires a shift in orientation because we

live in a climate of fear, where it’s all too easy to succumb to a constant

barrage of potential threats. The morning news pulls us into a dark world of

constant disasters, which is reinforced by the evening news. To counter this,

you must look to your own inner guidance. Realize that what makes you safe is a

higher intelligence that resides within you. Potential dangers are illusions.

Only what lies at hand is real.

I’m not saying that existence can be sanitized of all its

discomforts and sudden reversals of fortune. I’m offering the possibility of

approaching existence from a different perspective. You will be secure once you

realize that God has provided you with everything you need to meet the

challenges of life, whatever they may be. You are standing center stage in your

own personal drama. Surrounding you is a much larger stage, and if you find

yourself in dangerous times on that larger stage, danger will be present.

However, this situation is very different from seeing yourself living inside a

swirling chaos of impending doom. The point is to take your place inside the

drama with confidence. Everything is as it should be.

The

role assigned to you is right and proper. It is tailor-made for you, for your

complete self. And your complete self won’t settle for a listless, uneventful

existence. The fact that life isn’t completely risk free doesn’t change the

fact that it’s driven by choices made at the soul level. The voice of fear tries

to convince you that you are a helpless victim of chance. The very opposite is

true. At the deepest level, the level of the soul, you are the author of

everything that happens to you.