Tag: fear
Being Imaginative Can Enhance the Transformation Process
Last week I was working with a client who has a tendency to imagine that the worst things are going to happen to his family. The images are not based on concrete reality. It is like his mind goes on walkabout trying to think of dark things. He was having thoughts about his sisters dying, …
Freeing Up Your Positive Future: How to Own Your Future
I have been called into the director’s office. I know it is going to be bad. No one is called into this director’s office to be congratulated. I try to get into a supremely calm state of being, but the fear is creeping in. He begins his lashing out including telling me that no one …
Using Your Negative Emotions as Code for your Personal Transformation
I am sitting at the top of run looking down when my body decides to fill itself up with fear of crashing badly. The longer I stay the worse it gets. The fear goes from mild reluctance to absolute paralysis. I know that I am going to ski down the slope. I am just looking …
The Key to Dream Work/Transformation Work is the Ability to be Comfortable with Darkness
Imagine that you are in the midst of dream where you are about to be crushed by a tsunami or one that you are being chased by a fierce lion that is about to pounce on you. For most people who have this kind of dream, waking up from the dream is a big relief. …
The Secret Code to Transformation 1: Fear
Fear is huge topic. There are probably as many types of fear as there are stars in the sky. A great deal has been written about fear already by numerous authors, but most people do not see the negative emotions, in this case fear, as code or positive message to spur on transformation. Much of …
How to Use Negative Emotions to Your Advantage: Part 1A FEAR
The upcoming negative emotion that I am going to write about is anxiety. Stay tuned in. It is such a prevalent emotion in lives of most people, but first I am going to write a bit more on how to be more enthusiastic when you are addressing a fear. The problem that fear addresses is …
Sometimes the Fear You Feel is Not Yours
I woke up with a dream this morning that reminded me of some feelings that I had in elementary school. The primary feeling was fear, but there didn’t seem to be any reason for the fear. I was reluctant to relate to people even though they were friendly, open, and hospitable really wanting me to …
The Dynamics of Going After Big Change
We all want big change. There is probably nothing more universal and completely compelling within us than to want to change ourselves. Growth is part of who we are as human beings. What are the dynamics? How do we simplify the process so that is more available everyday to everyone? What a world that would …
The Virtue of Courage
In the last few weeks I have spend a lot of time with children teaching them about courage using the medium of rock climbing as the tool for its development. Even though I have done this for 10 years now, it never ceases to amaze me how fast a child can go from being in …
Embracing Fear
Most of the dreams that people send me have a lot to do with fear. When you get to the core of someone’s inner work, there is always a fear that that has to be faced. It is part of the human condition. I think that for most of us we just want the fear …
Day 13: Day of Reflection/Meditation
The light of a good character surpasseth the light of the sun and the radiance thereof. Whoso attaineth unto it is accounted as a jewel among men. Baha’u’llah After having done a day of maximum effort, it is often very valuable to do a day where the focus is reflection. In today’s material world especially …
Day 9 Change: Fear or Anxiety?
“The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds; he whose words exceed his deeds, know verily his death is better than his life.” Baha’u’llah In dealing with transformation issues it is often very helpful to understand the difference between fear and anxiety. Anxiety is the feeling that you get when you …
Choosing the Right Goal: Material or Spiritual
Goal setting is a relatively easily process if you know where you are in your life right now. Most people are driven by what someone else tells them is important which is material in nature such as more money, better sex, a better body, a better house, a faster car, a more beautiful garden, going …
The Keys to Dealing with Fear
The first key to being able to overcome fear is to have a friendly, rather than antagonistic relationship with it. Fear is a universal negative emotion that we all face. It comes in a lot of varieties. We all have fear. It is part of being human. I think that perhaps future generations will have …
A Beer Is Ibuprofen in Liquid Form
For the most part our minds are geared to taking the easy way out of life and in the modern world we seem to have taken the easy way out to an extreme. The cultural learning is that a physical pleasure gives you a non-material or permanent quality. Look at this ad. This ad teaches …
Richard Hastings is an expert in change work and dream work and author of Dreams for Peace. He is a 
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