It’s easy to look at your actions and don’t see which emotions cause them to happen. But it’s important to understand what emotions are behind your actions because emotions determine the quality of your actions and consequently the quality of your life.
With a bit of understanding that you will gain from this post you will easily spot the causes of other people’s actions and the causes of your own actions. This will enable you to eliminate actions that produce poor results and take more actions that build your success.
Fear-based actions
It may seem that fear-based actions are only the actions taken out of fear. However, fear-based actions also include actions taken out of revenge or anger or any other negative emotion, because all negative emotions arise from the underlying emotion of fear.
There’s a big difference between taking action because you genuinely want to take it and taking action because you feel you need to take it. The feeling that you need to take it arises from fear because you unconsciously (or consciously) think that if you don’t take some action something negative will happen.
So if you hate your work but still go there, it means that you take action out of fear. If you buy something because you want to show off, it means you take action out of fear. If you stay with someone because you don’t want that person to be with someone else, that means it’s a fear-based action too.
The consequences of fear-based actions
When you take action out of fear, it means you act against your soul’s wishes. Your soul always knows what’s good for you, but if you act against it, you will manifest something negative. If, for example, you visualise something that you want to have and you feel the urge to do something, if you listen to that urge and do it, it will get you closer to the manifestation. But if you don’t listen to your heart and take a fear-based action instead, then you will get further away from the manifestation.
Fear-based actions are restrictive egoic actions that take you off the road to fulfillment and joy. They enslave your soul and make you miserable. Holding on to unhappy relationships and staying in horrible jobs are the most common fear-based experiences. Fear-based actions also include not doing something because you are afraid to fail, not expressing yourself fully, being like everyone else even if it sucks, quitting because someone told you you will not make it and so on.
Unfortunately more people take fear-based actions than love-based actions and that’s why there are more unhappy than happy people.
Love-based actions
Love-based actions are as varied as fear-based ones. There is big difference between these actions though because love is the only real action there is. Fear was created as a polar opposite of love but fear doesn’t exist when you die. However, in this life if there wouldn’t be fear, you wouldn’t know how good love feels. So that’s why polar opposites of everything exist.
Because love is the only real emotion, if you take love-based actions, you will be in complete joy and happiness. Love based actions however can be confused with fear-based actions because of the involvement of your mind. For example, you may stay in a relationship because you think that your partner is a great person. But deep down you know that you hold on to the relationship because you don’t want to let go of your partner. So this means that the relationship is based on your neediness and that shows insecurity. Insecurity always arises from fear. In this case you are afraid to lose your partner because you don’t want to stay alone or you don’t want him/her to experience more happiness with someone else. So sometimes what your mind tells you is not correct and you have to face your genuine feelings about the situation to really understand it.
Love-based actions feel good whereas fear-based actions restrain you, make you doubt yourself and they generally feel uneasy and unpleasant. There’s a big difference between working because you are scared that bills will be left unpaid and going to work because you are passionate about what you do. There’s a big difference between forcing yourself to do something and getting inspiration to do something. And these two kinds of actions produce completely different results.
Love-based actions include forgiving someone, tithing (when you really mean it), believing in someone, helping others, caring (not because you have to but because you want to), cheering someone up. All the actions that you take out of inspiration, joy, good heart, confidence, security or peace are love-based.
The consequences of love-based actions
Actions taken out of love make you happy and secure. They give you faith in the fairness and goodness of this universe and the assurance of yourself. They make you abundant and healthy. They lead you to personal fulfillment and absolute joy.
The reason why people don’t take purely love-based actions is because of their lack of faith. They don’t believe that such actions will make them happy or lead them to their fulfillment. This is because other people and institutions (schools, churches, universities) taught us outrageous “truths” about life. We were taught that we were born sinful and therefore we must suffer and beg for forgiveness. We were given many rules to obey and a certain way of thinking that would make us submissive.
Were were discouraged from our natural creativity and independent thought. Those who are different are “stoned” and those who obey get a pat on the back. So it’s easy to see why most people take fear-based actions. Were were taught in fear and we were taught to fear. Yet fear is what makes us miserable and insecure.
So here’s what I suggest to you. Take only loved-based actions for a week:
Listen to what you feelings tell you and not your mind.
Do only things that feel good to you.
Engage only in activities that are pleasant and make you happy.
Restrain from doing things that you think you have to but you don’t want to.
And see where this will lead you.
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