Haunted Houses and Ghostly Fears

I took my kids to a haunted house over the weekend; the flyer said it would be “mildly scary.” In my opinion, it was fantastic, but my children would beg to differ. They were horrified. My son was crying and screaming at me for taking him through it. When we finally got out the exit doors, he avowed quite vehemently, “I will NEVER go to a haunted house ever again! Do you hear me?! Never again!!”

Got it.

Please know that my son is ok now. He was soothed rather quickly when he found the children’s game booths, and this morning, upon hearing that there was going to be a haunted house at his school, he said, “Well, maybe I’ll go in it. If the teacher holds my hand.”

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Do you know that we’ve all done this kind of thing? We’ve had traumatic experiences and sworn never to repeat them again! Not just in our childhoods, but perhaps more powerfully, over the course of many lifetimes.

Stay with me.

When I first started working with my coach, I told her I’d been wanting to write a book for something like ten years, and I’d made little to no progress in doing so.

“You’re afraid of success,” Linda told me.

“No, I’m not. I want to be successful more than anything,” I insisted. “I’m afraid of failure.”

“That’s not what’s stopping you from doing it,” Linda maintained. “It’s the fear of success that’s holding you back.”

We worked through this idea pretty thoroughly, did some past-life regressions, and came to the conclusion that yes, indeed, success was terrifying to me. Only I had not realized it before.

Turns out that I had lived a number of lifetimes where I had been rather successfully speaking my mind. In doing so, I was noticed. People didn’t agree with what I had to say and, to make some long stories short, my success ultimately led to my death.

Guess what I was thinking to myself, quite vehemently might I add, at the point of my death? “I will NEVER get myself into this kind of situation ever again! I mean it! Never again!!”

Sound familiar?

Don’t think I’m the only sucker who’s gotten into a messy predicament. You’ve done it too. I don’t know what exactly you’ve done, but chances are good that in one lifetime or another (or in many) you’ve done something that got your ass killed.

When we are at the point of a frightful death, our feelings are so intense and our thoughts are so congruent that this is the moment when we have the power to create like God. You’ve heard of the power of the mind, yes? You know that when your mind is really, truly set on something, there’s no stopping you, right?

So, imagine this kind of situation, and know that vowing never to repeat your mistake is incredibly potent.

This decision, this memory, is now stored in your subconscious mind.

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Have you ever been in a situation where you felt nervous, queasy, shaky, or broken into a panicky sweat? Was the situation really that scary that it would make you tremble with fear? Likely not. The quivering is there to remind you of something old, something very, very old.

Something you are here to resolve.

Yes, your Soul set you up to face your fears. You don’t have to face them, of course, but your Soul is also dangling a big carrot at the other side of them. It wants to give you a new perspective. It wants you to know that you can do this again, and you will survive it.

You must go through your fears to get to your Soul Mission. (Nice, huh?) In doing so, you will be rewarded. If you’ve ever faced a really deep fear, you know the rewards I’m talking about: exhilaration, satisfaction, pride, wondrous experiences.

If you’ve never faced a mighty fear, give it a shot.

After all, if my son can do it, you can too. Just ask your Soul to hold your hand. It will.