When you first begin on the path of conscious personal development, you may find yourself bombarded on all sides with advice and well-meaning criticism. Because you have been searching for answers, you are finding many, many new thoughts and techniques to learn and from which to choose.

 While it is good to have an arsenal of techniques on your side to deal with challenges and questions as they come up, this can sometimes become overwhelming. Not only is it difficult to remember to try and implement everything you’ve been reading as you go about your daily life, but you may also find what seems to be conflicting advice, causing more confusion, when what you really wanted was clarity!

Creating Monsters

One mistake people make when trying to improve their lives is to focus too much on their fears. We will address that here and provide a quick little visualization technique to help you. Of course this adds to your arsenal, but rather than being confusing it should be fun, easy, and most importantly effective.

When we learn that our fears and hidden ‘negative’ beliefs are hindering our progress toward whatever goals we may have, it can be scary rather than inspiring. We start to notice every time a ‘negative’ belief or fear comes up, and often we beat ourselves up for having them at all. Thus, we make our fears even worse than they are, creating a big monster where before there was only a small monster, metaphorically. The thing is, it’s not necessary to analyze everything – sometimes it’s only necessary to get rid of them and return to focusing on positive and constructive thoughts.

The first step is to remember that we all have a kaleidoscope of beliefs and fears which took our entire lifetimes to develop. it isn’t possible to get rid of them in an instant and live happily ever after, no matter what anyone tells you. Although you may experience some shifts in paradigm as you find new insights impacting the way you think, you will simply move to a new level, where newly unearthed beliefs will surface. This process is all a gift to you, and isn’t negative at all. It is a deeply personal, profoundly rewarding journey and is a privilege to take consciously.

Now, for the ‘trick’ to banish the monster.

Instead of assigning your fears and ‘negative’ beliefs the weight and signifiance you have been, try instead to visualize them in silly ways, to lighten up your mind and allow you to rid yourself of them more easily. Make a decision ahead of time that from now on, when a fear or negative belief pops into your mind, you will think of it like a snake, or a hot potato…anything that would make you jump away and get as far away from it as you can. Drop it, leap away from it, laugh and scream in your mind, but whatever it is, get rid of it instantly!

In this way, you can turn your focus very quickly back to attracting what you DO want in your life, and never wallow in the guilt or ‘why did I create this negative’ that you may have been experiencing in the past. Your mind is very powerful, and with a little practice this will become a very easy exercise for you. You will enjoy a multitude of benefits from this little trick, as lightening up your mind brings with it the ability to attract to you things which are in harmony with your new, higher and happier vibration.

Enjoy!

*Editor’s note: The monster picture – which I love! – reminded me of another post about overcoming fear that I wrote some time ago at the IncreasingVelocity blog Follow Your Path. To gain even more perspective on handling fears, you may enjoy the article. To read it, go to Laughing at Your Fears.