On Choosing Faith Over Fear
In our journey from childhood into adulthood we’re often taught to silence our intuition with logic, to use our rational mind to make decisions and ignore that inner voice or calling gently leading us down one way or another to fulfil our soul path.
We turn to our parents, our friends, our mentors for guidance, instead of turning inwards and listening to our inner voice which is the beacon that’s always guiding us on the path to our own fulfilment.
We end up living a life that appears to be exactly what’s expected but leaves us feeling empty for reasons we can’t quite point to. We quash that emptiness and feeling of unfulfiment with alcohol or drugs, with food, with meaningless relationships and distractions.
We silence the voice calling us to our fulfilment but it’s always there. It’s in that spark of excitement, of passion, of inspiration saying “this way, this way, this way”. Sometimes we have to hit rock bottom to find the courage to step into our true calling. Sometimes we just find the courage by seeing others around us living out their dreams, showing us that life can be painted in bold colours and not the sepia tones of our childhood and our fears.
I was recently presented with two opportunities, which on the surface seemed to be great. But something didn’t sit right. They felt off. The old me would have rationalised my way through, and for awhile I did. I tried using logic to figure it out, struggling and efforting and turning myself into knots. I made a pros and cons list, weighed up the options.
Then I remembered, when we try to work things out ourselves we cut ourselves off from a power far greater than us to guide us to where we truly want to go. Choosing Faith over Fear means releasing the wheel over to a power greater than ourselves, whether you call this power God, the Universe, your inner being.
So I let go of the wheel, and said a prayer to my guides instead: "what would you have me do, where would you have me go, what would you have me say and to whom in relation to this opportunity".
And then I went horse riding, which for me is like a meditation and always shoots me straight into sacred alignment. When I finished I stayed off the topic, gently saying a prayer of surrender any time my monkey mind wanted to go back and analyse the issue to death. When I woke up the next day I had a clear, resounding knowing of what to do. It came with a deep sense of peace, ease and expansiveness.
The fear lingered a little but that sense of peace guiding me was stronger. There’s the fear of what others would say. There’s generational trauma around poverty and lack consciousness. There’s conditioning from childhood and other people’s fears swimming around my head. That voice is loud and fearful: “You're giving up a great opportunity for a pipe dream! You won't get another chance like this and you'll end up regretting it.”
But my faith is stronger and so my reply is soft and sure: “I am skilled and very good at anything I put my mind to. I trust in the abundance of the Universe and know that there is no shortage of opportunities. What’s mine will never miss me, and what misses me was never mine. This or something better is coming to me. I trust the right opportunity to come to me in the right time and in the right way.”
When we put our Faith in the abundance of the Universe we can live a life of ease, grace and wellbeing. When we trust in a higher power guiding us we can take our hands off the wheel and know that all is truly well. We allow space for the real magic to unfold.
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