JOYCE:
Lets discuss the prison wall
FEAR:
Ask your question
JOYCE:
What gives the bars of the prison so much strength?
FEAR:
Let me see…A person’s life creates the bars. As long as they believe in the fears life has given them to be true and unpassable, one will be forever imprisoned.
JOYCE:
You make it sound like one can escape at any moment.
FEAR:
That is what I am telling you.
JOYCE:
If that’s true then why wouldn’t we all escape your captivity?
FEAR:
Each time anyone hits a prison bar made from their own life’s given fear…without questioning if the fear is real they stay imprisoned. Then they continue to listen to my voice as I embellish each fear as truth.
JOYCE:
Why would anyone believe you?
FEAR:
Because of their need to stay safe from what scares them.
JOYCE:
Give me an example of a universal life given fear.
FEAR:
Shame is a great one. This energy is so foreboding, heavy, and all encompassing my input is rarely needed to convince anyone to run in the opposite direction the moment they have even a glimpse into the feeling shame invokes.
JOYCE:
I know that feeling well. I’ve met it many times in my life. When I was younger my reaction to this energy was habitual. The moment I felt it I stopped whatever it was I was thinking about doing or becoming. Leaving my first husband brought up shame. I heard it speak “who do you think you are?”, “you are nothing special”, “You will not be able to take care of your two boys.”
FEAR:
See how this works now? You wished to become more than you were…what stopped you was your life given fear of shame. I just nudged you along a bit.
JOYCE:
It took about a year but I eventually left him.
FEAR:
How did you change your thinking enough for that to happen?
JOYCE:
My desire to leave Dave became larger than my fears of shame, failure, and self-doubt. Each time I allowed myself to envision life free from Dave’s control I was empowered to begin to question why I believed the prison I found myself in.
FEAR:
See how that works… each time you invisioned life without Dave you hit the prison wall of shame, self-doubt, and failure. But your desire for freedom would not let you off the hook. Like you said… over the course of a year you continued to hit the prison bars. Over and over your desire to become free forced contact with these bars. The only way to freedom was to understand and own you co-created the bars by believing what they told you to believe.
WHAT I TOLD YOU TO BELIEVE.
Each time you crashed head first into these fears your habitual response to them changed. No longer did you run in the opposite direction you now stood still long enough in these energy’s to ask questions and learn why you believed in what they told you to believe.
JOYCE:
What is the purpose of all the negative energies surrounding us at all times?
FEAR:
Well for me…they are my lifeblood. Without the negative I would not survive. Lucky for me most never learn how to take the negative and turn them positive. For the rest of you…how would anyone know the positive if there was no negative.
JOYCE:
So you are saying…the negative gives us a clue to what we need to question. These negative fears are actually guiding us to what we need to overcome to become free.
FEAR:
You get it. Lucky for me you are in the minority.
JOYCE:
Not for long.
FEAR:
Dream on girl…one must be willing to change their own thinking to become free. Which would entail taking some responsibility for what their life has become. Lucky for me most rebel against admitting any wrong doing… Or that they have been believing a lie.
JOYCE:
People just need to be shown a good reason to question what they believe.