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MY SUNDAY JOURNAL
By Dalton Roberts
An IPS Feature
5-19-02
STOPPING FEAR & TAKING HEART
On this day in ‘89 I spoke to a graduation class at an elementary
school. I had been asked to take the topic of "Advice About
Life." Doggone if the main points of my talk don't still feel
pretty good.
First, stop fear. It will keep you from realizing your dreams. It will
keep you from even trying. And the best way to stop fear is by realizing
what you've already survived. Sit down and make a list of what you have
already survived and you are going to realize you are one more tough
hombre.
Take heart about what you are going to need to learn by remembering what
you've already learned. For many months of your life you couldn't walk,
talk or control your body functions. You learned to do all those things.
And it was no small achievement! It took you months of falling to learn
to walk and months of babbling to learn to talk. But, by golly, you
learned it.
Start tuning into your Inner Essence as your main teacher. One of the
greatest books I've ever read was written by a rock and roll magazine
editor. It was Paul Williams' "Remember Your Essence." If you
can find one on his website or in any bookstore at any price, buy it.
Call it what you will, there is Something in us that knows much more
than what we are consciously aware of. We can learn to tune into it
through quietness, meditation, tracking our dreams and stillness. The
answer is still, "Be still and know...." When I face a
challenge, sometimes I just say, "I am willing to listen today to
anything you want to tell me." Insights come.
You will never find a better Teacher.
CONVENTION OF BODIES
One of my favorite Methodist authors has been E. Stanley Jones. In his
book "In Christ," he said, "I have often imagined a
convention of bodies talking about the people who inhabit them."
What would your body say about the way you treat it?
My pal, Montana Al Harvey, calls his body his "ride." I once
called mine "my protoplasmic motor scooter."
Let your body go to that convention of bodies now and then and listen to
what it says about the way you inhabit it. Just sit quietly over in the
corner and sneak a listen.
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