The Strength/Fearlessness card is not about acquiring anything, nor is it something you need to increase or search out. Gaining psychic strength is very different from gaining physical strength, which requires us to use our muscles and increase their bulk. This kind of Strength comes from one thing - releasing fear.

If you think about what holds you back, what makes you think you’re weak, it isn’t a lack of strength. You are absolutely as strong as you need to be. What holds you back are your fears. And fears are nothing but illusion and an illusion is only as strong as our belief in its reality. When your reality is dominated by fear, it is very easy to feel weak - the main message you’re receiving is that there is a threat to your well-being. Generally, if the threat feels more powerful than your defenses, well, you’re not going to feel very strong.

A big part of the problem with Strength/Fearlessness is the culture in which we live. Fear has historically been used as a motivator, sometimes with the goal of trying to protect people, but at other times, unfortunately, to motivate people to the will of another. This motivation is often not with the highest good of all in mind; additionally, we have never had access to so much fear at any other point in recorded history. Every time I go to the Internet, I am barraged with one horrible news item after another. If I just want to check my email, there are dozens of frightening news stories waiting for me. If I just want to see what the weather will be like next week, I can often leave the site fearful and depressed (a symptom of our fearfulness). Knowing about stories regarding how everything is bad for you and horrors going on in the world today, does not in any way improve the quality of your life, the state of the world or increase our individual or collective Strength.

Taking this one step further, why would someone want to do this? What good comes of this? You cannot change these situations by knowing about them. Can knowing about another person’s tragedy undo the horror? Do cautionary tales work? I believe we all know what is best for our own lives. We also all face mortality in this life and I believe these stories have also made our passing into the next life a feared and dreaded thing instead of the natural transition it truly is. I’m not saying we should drink poison or drive while completely sloshed, but I know that without the benefit of being reminded hourly. And I think you probably do to. And if you don’t, well a news story really isn’t going to help you all that much. We’ve moved beyond needing fear to tell us to run the other way when we see a lion in our path.

So if it isn’t going to really help us why does that fear mongering go on? Why do news shows and even more lurid tabloid news outlets have such high ratings? Why do our friends and families often discourage our dreams because of their perceived potential negative outcomes? Why do fear-based religions have so many members? I believe it’s all about control, which is just an example of fear in action.

When we break the cycle of fear, we need to begin by looking at whom we have allowed to control our fear reactions. Have we given power away to another? Are we addicted to our fear? Maybe the rush it creates in our bodies? We also need to be prepared for the reaction our release may cause in others (and ourselves). We will be learning the art of Strength in action. We need to look at the fear and release it as what it is. How do you do this? Love. It is the answer, the only answer. When you change your fear and release the fearful influence of others, you do this with Love and you are left in a state of pure, abiding Love. From this place, nothing can harm or frighten you on a psychic level. You are truly free.

How to begin? First take some practical steps. Stop watching/listening to fear-based programming (and I mean programming in the sense that you are being programmed by listening to it). Have a game plan for when people you know try to loan you their fears (I decided I was going to start singing “Ac-cen-tu-ate the Pos-i-itve, E-lim-i-nate the Negative,” to any nay-sayers in my path). Humor can go a long way toward diffusing and deflecting. You might be told that you’re not being realistic. Simply tell this person, that your reality isn’t based in fear and maybe express sorrow that their definition of reality includes this. If they don’t believe they can be free from fear, unfortunately, they’re right. If you believe it, it is most certainly true for you. So believe your fears can and are being released.

On a the ethereal side of things, to release fear your heart and solar plexus chakras must be healthy and spinning in an even, clockwise manner. To do this, go to your place of silence. Visualize these chakras and feel how they are spinning. Is it a wild, out of control manner? Is it sluggish. See them spinning evenly. The solar plexus chakra should be a bright yellow and the heart should be a beautiful green. When you feel these spinning as they should, open up these centers of Strength and feel all fear leaving your body and going deep into the earth, where it will be cleansed and neutralized. Now feel pure love pour over over you. Feel it filling in anywhere there is fear or lack. Feel its warmth surround you. Feel held and loved, for you are. You were created to experience the Love and beauty of this life and not to suffer at the illusion of fear. Let this Love give you all the Strength you require. Whenever you are faced with a fearful situation, try your very hardest to remember this feeling and bring back your Strength and Fearlessness (and maybe sing a little Perry Como if it helps:-)

It sounds easy because it is easy. When you realize that all that saps you of your Strength is fear and that the opposite of fear is Love, you have the key to the realization of a bountiful and beautiful life. Imagine what it will be like when you don’t second guess any decision. Imagine what it will be like to truly follow your dreams and live the life of your dreams.

Consider this affirmation:

“I live a life surrounded by infinite Love. I am a beacon of Strength. My life is driven by Divine Love, which is far stronger than any obstacle. I am blessed by Divine Love.”

Love,
Nyx

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