Fears and Insecurities

 

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Fears and Insecurities

All of us experience fears and insecurities during the course of our journey through life. Some more, some less and we always wonder how we can get rid of them. We don’t have to leave our fears and insecurities because they don’t really exist. We keep creating them unconsciously. If we don’t create them, they don’t really exist. So, then why do we create them and how should we stop creating them. The fundamental reason why fear arises in us is – one way of looking at it is – in this vast existence of which we don’t know the beginning or the end, we are just a little human being. Being the small entity that we are right now, naturally there is fear and insecurity about what will happen to us.

As long as we are identified as a physical body, as long as our experience of life is limited to our physical and mental faculties, fear and insecurity are inevitable. Different people may be at different levels of fear and insecurity. Today, if our life is happening well, we might have forgotten our insecurity. Tomorrow, if our life is turned upside down, we will be reminded because it is always within us. Only when a person begins to experience himself beyond the limitations of the physical body and mind, then this person can become free from insecurity and fear.

Experiencing ourselves beyond the physical is what we are referring to as spiritual. When we say spiritual, don’t think it is about going to a temple. If we look at our prayers, 95% of them are either about asking for protection or to be taken care of. There is nothing spiritual about it. It is plain, basic survival. In most people, the very basis of prayer is fear and insecurity. If prayer exists in our life as an act only, it is obscene. If we become prayerful, that’s wonderful, and if we are using an act of prayer towards becoming that quality, that’s fine. But if we are routing our survival through the heavens, that’s very stupid. Even worms and insects take care of their own survival.

When we say spiritual, we are talking about our beginning to experience that which is not physical. Once this spiritual dimension is alive, once we start experiencing ourselves beyond the limitations of the physical and the mental, only then there is no such thing as fear. Fear is just the creation of an overactive and out-of-control mind.