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January 2008 
What's your greatest fear?
Posted on Apr 15th, 2007
by 
Lucente
Lucente
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for April 15, 2007:
Nothing. The only time I truly experienced fear was facing my first chemotherapy treatment. After facing an intravenous injection of toxic fluid, which was formulated to kill cancer cells produced by the most deadly women's cancer — I fear nothing. That reality empowered me to draw my proverbial line in the sand. Absolutely nothing can pass the line now.
Fear, initially, is a harmless seed: living; contained by a hard, outer covering. It is first presented as a thought; the thought could be triggered by actual danger or an emotion.
What happens after that determines if fear will sprout, take root and produce its fruit: moments (days, weeks and longer) of debilitating, panic-inducing, frightful confusion via the flood of adrenaline and racing thoughts of worst-case scenarios blazing — screaming — through one's mind.
Yet — at any time — fear can be plucked and uprooted. Thus, ceasing to grow (and ultimately producing more seeds which will sprout, take root and produce fruit ...)
Nip fear in the bud. Cast down imaginations which only promise to cultivate the fear-seed. When a situation presents the fear-seed, choose to utilize the adrenaline rush and hyper-focus to grow seeds of your choice; keep fear contained.
"You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt
1 John 4:18
Fear, initially, is a harmless seed: living; contained by a hard, outer covering. It is first presented as a thought; the thought could be triggered by actual danger or an emotion.
What happens after that determines if fear will sprout, take root and produce its fruit: moments (days, weeks and longer) of debilitating, panic-inducing, frightful confusion via the flood of adrenaline and racing thoughts of worst-case scenarios blazing — screaming — through one's mind.
Yet — at any time — fear can be plucked and uprooted. Thus, ceasing to grow (and ultimately producing more seeds which will sprout, take root and produce fruit ...)
Nip fear in the bud. Cast down imaginations which only promise to cultivate the fear-seed. When a situation presents the fear-seed, choose to utilize the adrenaline rush and hyper-focus to grow seeds of your choice; keep fear contained.
"You must do the thing which you think you cannot do." Eleanor Roosevelt
1 John 4:18
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