18. Coming from Fear or Love?

I recently heard a workshop, that put a spotlight on what motivates our actions. Are we pushed into doing something from fear or from love? It is not often that I think about this aspect. Becoming aware of our motivation forms a major steer on how we live our lives, especially the impact it has on the state of our health. In my experience, the root creator of illness is negative emotion and healing can only occur when we have faced the underlying issue.

To my consternation, I find that the impetus to action more often comes from fear rather than the pull of loving and enjoying the process. Sadly, we have been schooled into action from the fear of retribution. No doubt, many things have played a part in creating this false notion that ‘we are not good enough’ just as we are.

I started to focus on little interactions I have in a day and noticed that a lot of my words and actions were coming from a place of wanting to please. It is okay to want to do this now and again but when this becomes my primary motivator, I realise I am in trouble! Am I living for myself or for pleasing others? I also know that most of the time, one can never please others because they have an agenda that we will never be privy to.

I think it is a fools paradise if we don’t think and act from the sheer joy and love of living. Though quite a challenge, just questioning, ’am I coming from fear or love?’ seems to change my vibration and automatically I am more at ease, hence moving to a space of love.