Yet still I know my cash flow from the work I love to do is assured enough to meet my basic needs and even exceed them, allowing for relaxation, contemplation and play.  Yet still with all this assurance there is a background sense of anxiety.

I have a happy home; I have a beautiful wife who loves me as much as I love her.  We play together, we work together and we support each others dreams of joy and self fulfillment.  We help each other out and give moral and physical energy to empower each other.  Still with all this good there is the littlest sense of back ground fear.  Most people probably wouldn’t even be aware of it.

Most of the people I know and meet are so engulfed in their day to day plans for tomorrow that to be present right here and now is a most uncomfortable sensation.  I suspect it is safe to assume that if the average westerner is not reading something they are either listening to a background radio or TV; often they are doing both.  They are completely oblivious to how and what they are thinking about most of the time, and that is exactly how they want it.

In the self development classes I teach I often include an exercise of meditating for two minutes twice a day; once first thing in the morning and then again once last thing in the evening.  Most participants in my classes find this to be the most challenging homework they receive.  To actually spend time alone, in silence, with their thoughts is so foreign in the world we live in that it is uncomfortable at least and for most, scary.

People are not comfortable with themselves; to be in their own company they must listen to all their random thoughts; and often those thoughts are fearful and angry.  So it is that we see on our highways, the one place where people are often trapped with their thoughts, such angry thoughts and actions being directed to other motorists, ‘road rage’.  Anger is a fundamental way of disowning our fears and guilt, yet still it does not go away just because we are angry.  It just becomes more of a foundation.

The real answer to anger, guilt and fear is faith, and not the medieval kind of magic where somebody out there is going to rescue us and take us home to some far flung fairy land after we are already dead.  Rather faith in something discernable and measurable in our affairs.  A faith based upon a power that works unfailingly in our lives in this present moment.

We all have faith in science and technology, we basically trust that when we flip a light switch the light will go on.  Our daily lives moment to moment are based on such faith; we need no more faith than this to release the anxieties that bind our thinking patterns.  There is a power for good back of all life and it is available to us.  It is available through our conscious and disciplined thinking.  By practicing; by building on the successes in our lives we build a faith that will dissolve our fears.

Blessings,