Security Systems

The most secure person is not the one with the latest, greatest, most technologically advanced  security systems; it is the one with no defenses.
Deepak Chopra (loosely paraphrased from the 21 day Meditation  series, Path to Empowerment, Chopra Meditation Center) 

Hmmm! I think and write a lot about fear in all its many forms, from worry to panic, and I cannot agree with Deepak Chopra more on this truth.  So many of us, when we feel insecure and vulnerable, will seek to build fortresses around ourselves for  protection.  We may invest resources, time, energy, or our own authenticity to build actual walls or images we can hide behind.  We end up avoiding the thing we "perceive" we are afraid of, when the best way to handle it is to step through it.  The less walls we have around us; the less we struggle and fight against fear or hide from it, like so many of us do, the sooner we will realize that fear isn't necessary.  It is just a tool used by the ego to keep us stuck.  Ego wants us stuck and small so it can look powerful.  Ego isn't powerful; fear isn't powerful.  We just "believe" it is.  Once we stop avoiding it and simply learn to sit with it ...we will see fear for what it is and we will realize it never had the power . Who we truly are does. 

All is well!