The Universe Has Your Back: Transform Fear to Faith

by Gabrielle Bernstein

so I turned to my meditation cushion for inner wisdom and guidance.

Coming out of deep silence, I began to write in my journal.

it’s our resistance to love that keeps us in the dark.

stuck in patterns that keep us from thriving.

only to sabotage that great feeling with a limiting belief, negative comment, or addictive pattern.

hard to give up the fear we’ve grown to depend on.

We give purpose to our pain, believing struggle and strife are necessary to success or lasting joy or a meaningful life, and we feel safe in a state of conflict and control.

unconscious...

we must hold on to our protection...

release your fear-based habits,

you’re blindsided by the shadow of fear that dwells below the surface.

That’s because the primary reason for our unhappiness is startlingly simple: we are resistant to being happy.

to awaken from fear and get in sync with love

the presence of fear within you will do whatever it takes to keep you stuck in pain and darkness.

This fear is the root cause of all our problems and feeli...

To truly say yes to the love of the Universe means you have to look at your resistance and give up a thought system that you mistakenly identified as safety,...

TO BE FREE WE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE OU...

“I don’t want to be free. I don’t want to give up judgment. I don’t want to release control.”

The most profound way to practice releasing resistance is to see clearly how we don’t want to let it go.

When we accept that we are addic...

we can let ourselves off the hook for anything that occurred in the past and for the detours into fear we will contin...

We can forgive ourselves for not doing things perfectly, and we can forgive ourselves for ...

Honoring this shadow side of ourselves is the way to he...

I accepted my fear

By embracing my fear and surrendering my desire to be free, an even greater pathway to freedom opened up to me.

Today I no longer resist love, and I have faith that the loving energy of the Universe is av...

look at your fear with love

and decide that it’s not a thought system you want anymore.

Releasing your old thou...

the practice of surrendering to the love of the Universe.

surrendering your fearful thoughts and energy to the right mind’s grace.

freedom from fear so you can return to peace.

The more you’re reminded of what you want, the more you’ll embrace your capacity to receive it.

The practice is about surrendering to love as often as possible.

miraculous change.

All that’s required is your willingness to release whatever blocks you from living in harmony with the energy of love.

be patient and trust that the Universe has your back.

YOU HAVE A HIDDEN POWER

Out of nowhere I felt a warm blanket of loving energy wrap around me.

connect to a loving force of energy far beyond my logical mind and my physical sight.

I started to get hooked into the safety, power, and excitement of outer successes and worldly forms of happiness.

I chose the outside world as my source of love and turned my back on the energy of the Universe.

I called on that energetic connection I once had known.

My relationship to this energy is the most important thing in my life.

Without it I lose my power, my purpose, and my connection to love.

OUR HAPPINESS, SUCCESS, AND SAFETY CAN BE MEASURED BY OUR GENUINE CAPACITY TO TUNE IN TO THE LOVING VIBRATION OF THE UNIVERSE.

What blocks our joy is our separation from love.

In some way or another, we deny the love of the Universe and choose the fear of the world.

We choose to hook into the fears

We separate from the love of the Universe by giving purpose to pain and thinking power c...