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It is a sad reflection on our society that, despite the opportunities for abundance and happiness
that exist today more so than ever before in the history of mankind, so many are trapped in
thoughts tinged with fear.
We know that like energy attracts like energy in the form of circumstances and people. It follows
that the more you desire or fear something, the more likely you are to attract it into your life. An
emotionless thought has no power to influence you one way or the other. An emotionless
thought causes frustration and unhappiness. When you have clarity of thought, positive or
negative, accompa-nied by an intense emotion of either fear or desire, you set the wheels of
energy in motion to attract whatever it is toward you.

Reject fear, choose love. This is a popular refrain and wonderful advice. Many believe that there
are only two primal emotions in the human being, love and fear, and that we cannot feel both
at once. In the same way that light removes darkness, love can remove fear.

The choice to reject fear and choose love can feel like something that only applies to moments
of crisis, when we’re leaving a marriage, starting a new business, preparing to climb Mount
Everest. But in truth, the opportunity to choose love and reject fear presents itself in the smallest
moments of life, and specifically, in relationships with those closest to us. Love over fear is a
choice every time someone tells us something about ourselves or has an experience of us that
we don’t want to hear.

Can you see why it is so important for you to keep your thoughts on the things you want and
replace the thoughts of what you fear with more constructive thoughts of love?

Someone may want to make more money, so they can buy an impressive car, so they can feel
better about themselves. Or, we may have a friend who works three jobs because his wife has a
potentially life-threatening illness and he doesn’t have health insurance. These are wildly
different circumstances. One is based in fear – the feeling of inadequacy and the need to
impress others with a car or a home. The other is based purely in love. The emotion we allow to
drive our thoughts and actions is what makes all the difference in how your life will turn out. An
intended focus on love delivers the positive elements associated with it, whereas a tendency
toward being driven by fear related associations will inevitably deliver its associated negative
elements.