“Falling Fast?” Blog #215
What gives me strength to get up and start my day?
With all the news media blitz, friend and foe - what do I fall for?
Where is stability I garnish to invisibly hold me in place?
I read somewhere a while back, that a dream of falling can indicate the dreamer feels
unstable, overwhelmed, fearful and/or insecure about something in their life. It may also
indicate an anxiety disorder or unresolved trauma. A dream of flying may mean there is
an out of control situation going on in my life that I don’t know how to solve. Falling or
flying in dreams, I get to at least wake up from! Yet, in the day to day struggle of figuring
things out, what AM I falling for really? There is my phone I can search, internet ads
spewing info, more garbage, and WHAT HAVE I FALLEN FOR?
Did you know 500 years ago a man named Michael DeMontaigne said, “my life has been
filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened!” There is actually a study
that proves this! The study looked into “how many of our imagined calamities that we fall
for mentally, never materialized”? Within this study participants were asked to write down
their worries over an extended period of time. They then were asked to identify which of
their “worries” never actually happened. The study on worries came back showing 85%
never happened! There are also multiple of studies showing 97% of all the worries flying
around in my head, are nothing more that a FEARFUL MIND FALLING FOR EXAGGERATIONS
AND MISCONCEPTIONS. I do have to stop and think about how different my life would be if I
did not fall for all the things I obsessively worried about over time. Over the years, I
eventually spent time trying to unlearn superstitions, fearful comments and “falling” for
other peoples convincing arguments of “doom and gloom”. My life would have been so
much more open to new positive possibilities, had I also only applied the faith I have now
in Jesus Christ.
There was another study that took place at Penn State University. Researchers asked
people who had a “generalized anxiety disorder” to write down “everything they worried
about” for one whole month. After all the outcomes were written down and turned in, at
the end of the month, researchers found 91% of all participants worries did NOT come true.
How much relief in hearing this does one feel?
Here’s another Important point, Falling for our anxiety ridden defeat thoughts and being
able to change, IS possible to heal from! Participants were told this, “not only did your
worries not come true, but after presented with the outcome, evidence and results,
researchers found these “worries were largely unfounded.” So many of the participants in
the study experienced immediate improvement in their anxiety symptoms over all. A win-
win for not falling for the illusion of exactly what it is - FALLING FAST with fearful worrying.
So now comes the good part. All of the above is a choice I make, every single day. I can
fall for worrying and fear of the unknown and let anxiety grab hold quickly, OR, I can speak
to myself as an old friend would, telling myself I have a weapon of spiritual steel growing
inside me now. What is it? Christ centered courage and my fail-safe protector. HE
keeps me from falling into worrisome patterns invading a safe place in my mind. I
visualize myself surrounded by an envelope of crystal clear white light of protection. No
more worrisome fear of falling fast for what is NOT there!
My inner dialogue with me is self love. I see myself encased in this envelope of loving light.
So the only conversation taking the place of worry is conversation with Christ. Even if it’s for
5 minutes first day. It’s okay. I can add more time each day. This helps eliminate
worrisome thoughts. If I think, “Oh I am so stupid for doing that”, immediately telling myself,
“That thought was part of the old me”. I now say, “I am smart, I am disciplined, I am
loving”. Therefore I believe I am Loved. I see myself in Christ Light. I listen to God.
Can I find my faith and turn my back on falling fast for worry?
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