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When beset by fear

By Deborah Arndt

You are never alone, never bereft, and never without aid.

Draw on these truths and strengths now.

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Remember how important and effective you are and can be by reducing the fear of others and increasing a sense of well-being at the same time. No small miracle in these times! In this way, you are profoundly benefiting others. It may seem easy to speak or write these words, but here we are drawing upon centuries of pain, fear, and turmoil mostly created by others around us, and we have been its unwitting victims. Where we had the ability to move mountains was with our faith and knowing that we couldn’t really be harmed unless we allowed ourselves to be so.

Now, we offer this wisdom to you. Know that despite all that you hear about this virus, you are still you and must be you through all time, and there are many agencies out there seen and unseen available to help you so that you are never alone, never bereft, and never without aid.

Where you draw on these truths and strengths now, you are better equipped to face what you must face. Now you are assisted, and your hand held. Isn’t that encouraging? Extend this out to all you love, and envision their well-being for them, too. Please return often to read more. We are in this with you, and you are never forgotten or alone. — your teachers

Filed Under: Courage in times of turmoil Tagged With: Coronavirus, Facing fear, well-being

Being Confident

By Deborah Arndt

“Confidence is like a well within you that you can draw on.”

water-well-1505494-640x480From the teachers:  We all suffer from lack of confidence from time to time. There is no shame there. But what will you do to make things you truly want to come about, if you lack confidence? We think confidence is like a well within you that you can draw upon, and it never empties and is always full, so to speak. You draw up buckets of it as you need it. And being needers of confidence, as you are of water, you need it often.

Now, when the “well runs dry,” it is not really dry,  but you have lacked confidence that it is full. Do you understand? You are allowing something to run dry, that cannot run dry. So it must be your perception and only your perception. It is as if you were to walk out to a lake and not see the water that is there. It is there, but you say you cannot see it. Some may say, not being able to appreciate it is the near cousin to not being able to see something. So if you perceive that the well of your confidence has run dry, have you really looked? Are you in tune with what you must be to see if there is more, much more waiting at the bottom, so to speak, to quench and nourish you. Now draw up the bucket confidently, and find there it is. You drink deeply from the ladle and say, “Now I am quenched. I can do what I want to do, came to do.” You are restored. Just as those who thirst can go on when they have received drink, so when you are filled again, you can go out and on with your life. [Read more…] about Being Confident

Filed Under: Self-confidence Tagged With: Confidence, well-being

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