Running Scared

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April 29, 2008

Running Scared

These past few years I've noticed, more and more, when people in my
age bracket get together, the conversation almost inevitably turns to health
issues.

John Cali
People of a certain age, say forty and over, love to discuss and
compare cholesterol counts, blood pressure readings, heart rates, etc. ad
nauseam -- with the focus being mostly on everything that can go wrong with our
physical bodies.

Almost nobody talks about how good they feel, how healthy they are,
how well their lives are going. Instead, every little ache or twinge of pain, or
simply having an occasional down day, is cause for major alarm.

Often, the medical profession (and the drug industry) encourage this
doom-and-gloom attitude. I don't mean all medical professionals -- there's a
growing number of enlightened practitioners out there. But, in my observation,
they're still a minority.

We're taught to live in fear, knowing disease and disaster are surely
lurking at every twist and turn of our lives, waiting to pounce and do us in.

I love something Alan Cohen once said: "Choose a doctor who will find
something right with you." Most folks go to doctors expecting them to find
something wrong. Often that's exactly what happens.

I recently read a fascinating newspaper article, written by a veteran
medical reporter. She described a condition, previously unknown to medical
science, that was literally invented by the drug industry so they could sell more
drugs.

When we choose to focus on these distortions in the mass
consciousness, we allow ourselves to be seduced into believing our bodies will
inevitably deteriorate and, sooner or later, we'll get slammed with a serious
illness.

We're running scared. Scared of living. Scared of dying.

Here's Chief Joseph.

Chief Joseph

The most dreadful, debilitating dis-ease most of you face today is
fear. If you could eliminate fear from your consciousness, and if enough of you
did it, you'd come pretty close to creating heaven on earth.

Fear is at the root of virtually every challenge, every disaster
humans have created down through the centuries.

As John put it, you're "running scared. Scared of living. Scared of
dying."

But, of course, it goes beyond that. Most humans are quite
accomplished at injecting fear into every aspect of life on Planet Earth.
Certainly into your concerns with your physical bodies. But you also manage to
inject fear and negativity into virtually all other aspects of your lives, as
individuals and as groups.

You need look only as far as your mainstream news media to see this.
Those media are filled every day with conflicts of every sort among individuals,
among nations, among races, etc.

You have divided and conquered yourselves. Everywhere you look you see
the faces of fear. How often do you go to sleep at night wondering if you'll wake
up in the morning?

Fear is absolutely the greatest enemy you will ever confront. You've
forgotten who you are and where you came from.

The mass consciousness is riddled with fear and trembling. That is
reflected in each of you individually -- that is, if you buy into the mass
consciousness.

But, friends, that is a choice. You do not have to follow the crowd
into more fear and trembling. You can choose think again -- this time, think for
yourselves instead of letting the crowd do your thinking for you.

Think about what you, not others, want in your lives. Think about all
the good the Universe is wanting to deliver to you once you simply allow it to
come. Think about all the good you already have in your lives -- in your physical
bodies, your relationships, your careers, and so on.

If you don't like what you see when you examine your lives, then think
again. What you are thinking and feeling will -- must -- manifest in your lives.

You do not have to buy into the mass consciousness. You do not have to
allow your bodies to fall apart as you move through the years. You do not have to
live a joyless life and die a sad death.

Joy is your birthright as a child of the Universe. Focus on joy, on
all the good in your lives. Eventually you will find the mass consciousness was
only a bad dream.

You get to choose your dreams, your lives -- "good" or "bad." You're
all far more powerful than the mass consciousness would have you believe.

You don't have to run scared. Instead, choose to run joyfully.

Chief Joseph talks about related subjects here:

Focus, Your Body, and Your Physical Well-Being
Afraid of Living, Scared of Dying
Suicide: A Solution?
Suicide Revisited
You're Probably Going To Die From This
Your Physical Body
Beyond the Veil of Death
Death

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Since 1992, John Cali has been communicating with a non-physical
entity called Joseph. In one of his many physical lifetimes, this spirit was
incarnated as the legendary Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe in what is now the
state of Oregon in the northwestern USA. These messages are a blend of information
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