You and your pope avatars lol Thank you for this.She's looking out for you! You will be reunited again
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Deidre's Journey
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I vacillate between my love for God, a personal God, and wanting to follow the LHP. I'm convinced that the RHP and LHP can live in harmony, but am I only fooling myself? I find my relationship with God to be fulfilling, but then there are times when I don't know what to do. How to deal with stress, or how to make sense of conflict. I looked into the LHP last year, and there is a part of me that fears it. But, I shouldn't. I shouldn't fear change, change is good. New discoveries are good.
Then, why am I afraid?
Then, why am I afraid?
Fear of change is normal for most us, isn't it? At least, normal if the changes come too fast and too many. I find meditation helps at moments like that. What's been your experience?
Yes, meditation does help @Sunstone - unless I'm afraid. lol Meditation can help to bring to the surface my fears, so I can see them for what they really are, probably unfounded and irrational. But, all fear has some grounding point, some origination point. Why do we fear change? It seems like life is always changing, but yet we fear it.
Fear seems to arise in response to threats to our ego or psychological selves. Those threats are not always real, but they arise whenever we embrace something as "us". So, if for instance, I buy a car and think of it as "me" in some way, I will quickly fear something happening to it. My fear might or might not surface so that I am consciously aware of it, but just wait until some kid rides his bike too close to my shiny new car! Then it will flash up in an instant! It can be extraordinarily difficult to detach ourselves from things, but -- so far as I know -- it is only through detachment that we can be without fears of one sort or another. At least that's how I see it. This isn't really something that needs to be taken on faith, though. If it's true, you can see it for yourself through some forms of meditation. That's been my mileage.
As an aside, I changed my avatar to one of me. I love deviant art as most of you know here, and my avatars are always a variation on a new deviant art piece. Well, a friend of mine took a pic of me and gave it that deviant art touch. I love how it looks like a painting of me!