{"id":173,"date":"2009-08-07T02:47:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T02:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/08\/fearless-fridays-and-the-tao.html"},"modified":"2009-08-07T02:47:51","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T02:47:51","slug":"fearless-fridays-and-the-tao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/08\/fearless-fridays-and-the-tao.html","title":{"rendered":"Fearless Fridays and the Tao"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aloha,<\/p>\n<p>Over the next few Fridays I will be sharing wisdom from various religions about fear and faith and fearless living. All of the great religions have so much to teach us about living life and connecting with the loving presence of our creator. As I have learned to connect with angels I have begun to see life from a much more loving and expansive perspective, one of unconditional love, incredible peace and total acceptance. Fear is no where on the horizon when I am connected to the angelic realms.<\/p>\n<p>I find a great deal of simple yet profound wisdom in the Tao. It helped me understand more fully many of the teachings of Jesus, Buddha and other great spiritual teachers. The Tao begins:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<i>The Tao described in words is not the real Tao. Words cannot describe it. Nameless it is the source of creation; named it is the mother of all things.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The part of the Tao that speaks to me most clearly about fear is:<\/p>\n<p><i>When living, a man is supple and yielding; when dead, man is hard and stiff. When living, all animals and plants are soft and pliant; when dead, they are withered and brittle. Thus, being inflexible and unyielding is part of dying; being flexible and yielding is part of living.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Fear causes us to be brittle and unyielding while love allows us to be flexible. The more fully we connect with our spirit, the angels and God the less fear we have and the passionately alive we are and the more we can savor all of life.<\/p>\n<p>How can you be more godlike in your thinking? You can do is pause as you move through your day and ask to see the world through the eyes of the angels.<\/p>\n<p>What can you do to release your fear when you are worried about money or love or losing your job or ill heath or anything else in your life? Take a deep breath and surrender to the guidance of your spirit and your guardian angels, Jesus, God, Buddha or any power greater than yourself.Trust in their loving presence in your life.<\/p>\n<p>How can you be fearless in the face of fear? Remember, really remember that you are a spirit inside this body that is infinite, eternal and immortal. You were created in the image of God and swim in a sea of love, only the love is real all else is an illusion.<\/p>\n<p>We have been taught to embrace fear, as you retrain your thinking love can become your guiding force.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more Fearless Fridays: <br \/><\/strong>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/07\/fearless-fridays-9.html\">5 Ways Fear Can Improve Your Life<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/07\/fearless-fridays-5.html\">7 Ways to Overcome Fear<\/a> <br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/07\/fearless-fridays-7.html\">Inspirational Quotes on Fear<\/a><br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/angelsonyourshoulder\/fearless-friday\/\">View all Fearless Fridays posts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With love and aloha,<br \/>Susan<\/p>\n<p>Angels are magical gifts from God and when we allow them to embrace us miracles happen!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore some of the ancient wisdom of the Tao to help you learn how to live fearlessly in the face of fear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,15,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angels","category-fearless-fridays","category-kindness","category-love"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fearless Fridays and the Tao - Angels on Your Shoulder<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/08\/fearless-fridays-and-the-tao.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fearless Fridays and the Tao - Angels on Your Shoulder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Explore some of the ancient wisdom of the Tao to help you learn how to live fearlessly in the face of fear.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/08\/fearless-fridays-and-the-tao.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Angels on Your Shoulder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-08-07T02:47:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Susan Gregg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fearless Fridays and the Tao - Angels on Your Shoulder","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/08\/fearless-fridays-and-the-tao.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Fearless Fridays and the Tao - Angels on Your Shoulder","og_description":"Explore some of the ancient wisdom of the Tao to help you learn how to live fearlessly in the face of fear.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/08\/fearless-fridays-and-the-tao.html","og_site_name":"Angels on Your Shoulder","article_published_time":"2009-08-07T02:47:51+00:00","author":"Susan Gregg","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/08\/fearless-fridays-and-the-tao.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/08\/fearless-fridays-and-the-tao.html","name":"Fearless Fridays and the Tao - Angels on Your Shoulder","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/#website"},"datePublished":"2009-08-07T02:47:51+00:00","dateModified":"2009-08-07T02:47:51+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/#\/schema\/person\/b87299a8cec940d47d994d9cb2ccb40c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/08\/fearless-fridays-and-the-tao.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/08\/fearless-fridays-and-the-tao.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2009\/08\/fearless-fridays-and-the-tao.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Fearless Fridays and the Tao"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/","name":"Angels on Your Shoulder","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Susan Gregg","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/#\/schema\/person\/b87299a8cec940d47d994d9cb2ccb40c","name":"Susan Gregg","description":"Susan Greggis an author, Karuna Reiki Master, and Nagual Woman. She has written eight books including the award-winning \"Mastering the Toltec Way\" and \"The Encyclopedia of Angels, Spirit Guides and Ascended Masters.\" Susan completed an apprenticeship with Don Miguel Ruiz, author of \"The Four Agreements,\" and she has been exploring spirituality, human potential, and the nature of physical and metaphysical reality since the early 1970s. Her greatest passion is showing others how they can be happy, no matter what is going on in their lives or in the world around them. This passion has resulted in her creating a podcast, \"Food for the Soul,\" and numerous video meditations. Susan's spiritual journeys have also taken her around the world with students she teaches. Currently, she lives on the beautiful island of Hawaii where she is an avid gardener, hiker, and writer. She often spends time playing with the numerous four-legged friends she's rescued or swimming with the turtles and wild dolphins. Follow me on twitter","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/author\/sgregg"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}