Regina Dawn Akers

Love is living,
and love is
all there is.

Open your eyes.
This is the one unifying field.
It is life living now.

What are you
if you are not bad?
What is life
if it isn’t fearful?

You are perfect freedom,
unbounded,
limitless,
and beyond imagination,
although imagination is included
within the boundlessness
of your freedom.

Life is a word
for what you are.

Life
is living
and free
and without end.

Fear says, “I am not love.
I am something bad.”
And so fear
runs and hides
and attacks and defends
and runs and hides some more.

But fear is only an idea in the mind.
It is a story.
It is not truth at all.

To see and realize truth
as it is right now
one must not listen
to the stories of fear.

To not listen
is not to believe.
To not listen
is to remember
that what fear says
isn’t true.

Pause for a moment today
and ask
“What is experience?”
“Where does experience come from?”

Look carefully
until you know you have found
the answer,
for the end of all suffering
is in sight.

Fear will hold you back from forgiveness.
Fear will hold you back
from letting go of
a false idea as false.

Fear will tell you
that it protects you from harm
and to let go of the idea in question
is to open up to complete vulnerability
and harm.

But fear is just a story.
Fear is an illusion itself.
It promises to care for you,
but what it says isn’t true.

Look at the idea of fear.
Look at its counsel
until you see it isn’t true.

You are free to practice forgiveness
when you’ve learned
not to listen to fear.

When you look at an idea
that is false,
look at it until you know
it is false.

Do not let yourself say,
“This idea is false,”
when in truth
you believe it is true.

Hold the idea in your mind
for the purpose of looking at it,
trusting that it is false,
until you see it is not true.

When your own recognition
sees the falseness of an idea
that isn’t true
the idea and its mesmerism
will begin to fade away.

False ideas are false ideas
which means
they simply are not true.

Try not to worry
about false ideas.
When you worry
you are stating
the idea has some meaning
to be worried about.

But if it is false,
which means it is merely untrue,
does it merit your attention and worry?

Respond to false ideas
with no attention except this:

Look at the idea.
See it as false,
and realize it does not merit your attention.
Then follow through
by taking a break
and letting the false idea
pass by.

Relax.
Take a break.
Be still,
if only for a moment.

Feel love
and have gratitude
for everything you find
in stillness.

Do not worry
that you were not still enough.
Do not worry
that the length was too short.
Any worry is noise
that pulls you away from stillness.

Have gratitude
for whatever bit of stillness you reach,
however brief
and however fleeting.

Gratitude is love,
and in love
you extend stillness.

There is no need to worry,
because that which is true
is true forever.

Whenever you feel the need to worry,
you have forgotten
that the truth is true,
and you have forgotten
that what is true
is you.

You are beyond your worries
and beyond the problems
that seem to plague you now.

Knowing you is peace.
Knowing you is the answer you seek.

The peace of the Heart
is guidance,
because it speaks to you
of your truth.

When you seek answers
to problems you perceive in the world,
you cannot find an answer
in the peace of the Heart.

This is because
you have not set your fears aside.
You are taking fear with you,
and asking it to be peace.

Fear cannot be peace,
and peace cannot add to fear.
Peace will tell you,
“Let go of your fear.
Come to Me asking nothing.”

Rest in peace,
asking nothing from it for yourself.
Peace and guidance
shall be your reward.