Imagine and Fear

"Worry is an extension of fear and

can also set you up for attracting

that which you don't want in your life."

Madisyn Taylor

While unpacking an old box, I came across my worry jar.  I unscrewed the lid and pulled out a few of the notes.  I sat down in a rocking chair by the window to examine each message scrawled across the paper.  

Unfolding these random scraps, I found  statements reflecting a particular concern, worry, or fear. As I lined up all of the pieces in a row, I began to recall what prompted the cause for each concern.  It was an amazing insight to now realize none of them ever came true.

The importance was to place a fear outside of ourselves, into a jar,  and clamp it down with a lid.  The intention was to leave it there rather than to drag it around.  At the end of each week, the scribbled notes were retrieved to see how many actually transpired.  The lesson is clear.  What we worry about rarely is as bad as we imagine and what we fear seldom happens.  Whatever we cling too, however, attracts like energy into our lives.