In search of inspiration for today’s message, I drew a card from Doreen Virtue’s Angel Therapy Oracle Cards. The card was Shield Yourself and its message read: Protect yourself from harsh or fear-based energies by envisioning a cocoon of healing light surrounding you.
Spirit would like to remind us to protect ourselves at all times, even in ordinary, everyday situations, and not to give ourselves over to lower, non-productive fear-based energies.
As it was originally intended, fear is a Creator-given tool for us. We are wired to feel fear and then respond. Fear demands action… it is meant to spur us into motion when threatened, in order to prevent a negative outcome to a situation.
Somewhere along the way, as a species, we invited fear in and allowed it to set up camp within our lives. We began becoming triggered by perceived threat in addition to actual threat and for many of us the distinction between the two became non-existent. Now, fear is running rampant in our society and we, as beings, are not even aware that we’ve allowed these fear-based energies to consume and paralyze us.
Fear is not meant to be a passive emotion. Yet, we use fear as a weight to keep us from exploring the unknown. We fear what might happen and lose focus of what is actually happening. Likewise, many of us tend to play off actual threat and put our livelihood at risk by not accurately assessing a dangerous situation.
These distortions of fear began in our subconscious, but the only way to break free is to bring it into our conscious. We must relearn to distinguish between actual threat and perceived threat. This will require a retraining of your thoughts and of your reactions to those thoughts and will take practice, as there are lifetimes of conditioning to undo.
This will require trust and faith in Divine protection. As you imagine yourself wrapped in Spirit’s healing and protecting light, allow worry and anxiety to fall away. Worry and anxiety are manifestations of distorted fear… these are fear-based, but without actual imminent threat. The time you spend indulging perceived fear is time that you are not living a proactive and productive life in the present moment.
Once you make the commitment to yourself and to Spirit that you are going to make a shift in your reactions, and have called in Divine protection, go on about your day. Then, when you experience fear… react! Within seconds you will know if you are in jeopardy or not and Spirit will guide, direct and protect you through the situation. If you discover, however, that you are not in immediate danger… stop reacting! Do not continue to entertain anxiety and worry about something that did not happen.
This retraining may take time, but that’s okay! Learn as you go and be open to this concept of living a life free of unnecessary worry. As the angel card guides, shield yourself and then go forth in this world, allowing yourself to be maintained high above the fear-based energies that surround you.
Namaste
DeAnna
