This is http://www.essayz.com/a9509221.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %NEGATIVE FEARS BLOCKAGE POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS 950922 What is the nature of the blockage of positive affirmations? How may we remove and/or transcend such blockages? Usually some form of fear is what blocks positive affirmations. Fears are focused upon future possibilities rather than upon present realities. Fears are grounded in past negative experiences rather than in present realities. Thus fears block possible present affirmations due to concerns about future possibilities which rest upon past negative experiences. Past negative experiences cannot (through physical cause and effect ways) determine any course of events. Past negative experiences can be transcended through loving forgiveness and healing. Past negative experiences are not determinative. Past negative experiences are not unavoidable foundations upon which the future must be built with fear. The future possibilities upon which fears focus our attention---cannot determine present events. The future we fear cannot cause events to occur now---unless we permit and enable such events to occur because of our fears. It is only as we permit and enable our fears to do so---that our fears can determine any course of events by how we let our fears block present affirmations. Our fears focus our attention upon non-substantive realities---which are real only to the extent which we make them real through our permitting and enabling them. Our fears are not objective realities which are real apart from our being afraid. Our fears are not "out there" confronting us from "out there". Our fears are "in here" because we nurture them "in here". What is "out there" cannot make us be afraid "in here" unless we permit and nurture what is "out there" to be "fear-full" to us "in here". Our fears are ours, realities which we permit and nurture to block our positive possibilities---by permitting them to block our positive affirmations. Our fears focus upon our own negativities---rather than upon positive possibilities which transcend us. Instead, it is for us to decide to focus our lives in ways which transcend negativities and fears. It is not for others to do things "out there" to remove any objective blockages to our potentials to be true to ourselves and each other. Instead it is for us and our health that we can transcend our fears and negativities by deciding that we want to live positive lives motivated and guided by love---rather than negative lives blocked by our fears. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================