What you fear, you attract
Fear Thinking Creates Fear-full Living
© Neva J Howell, All Rights Reserved

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This is part four of a four-part article on spiritual protection. To fully appreciate the comments below, please read protection from negative entities and the bandwidth of evil.

Fear attracts fear: You create what you think about. It cannot be otherwise. Just as opposite ends of the magnet attract, you can draw the opposite of yourself as a spiritual being.

This may feel like a contradiction to the mind, a spiritual paradox. How can focusing on protecting yourself from evil, or from whatever you fear, draw it to you? Think for a moment about what would feed an energy like fear or evil? Would it be sated on a fare of joy, love, peace, self-confidence and spiritual strength?

Paradoxically, the best way to draw evil to you is by being totally focused on pushing it away and protecting yourself from it.

And just as paradoxically, when you choose to accept whatever negativity or evil is present in your life, as being drawn by some resonant negativity in you, and own the reality you are creating, you can begin to remember who you are, a Divine Being of Light.

Emotional shifts that can invite a resonance with the frequencies of negativity, and even evil, include fear thinking, self-doubt, hate, bitterness, resentment, ego pride and depression.

Whatever lowers your vibrational frequency is an alarm to the Spirit

Just as a lowering of your immune system invites infection and disease, the lowering of your personal frequency is always the core issue when faced with negativity in your own field and that is where your attention should turn at such times.

When I find myself experiencing a lower density emotion, or diving into fear thinking on some issue in my life, I turn my attention to me, not to outside influences which may have found resonation for expression in me. They are just at whatever level they are but I AM has the option to remember who I AM in such situations and claim sovereignty by doing my own work to release negativity in me.

When I am unable to turn my attention toward the only person I can change, which is me, then I use ceremony to help. The difference is intent.

If I run to the smudge bowl out of fear and with the intent of running some evil entity off, then I've dropped into the fear frequency and turned my focus outward.

If, instead, I realize that my personal connection to that which I've drawn into my life for illumination and healing is so strong that I cannot focus within, then I may smudge with intent to clear the space for my own teachings, to invite in clarity about the negativity or evil I have drawn into my field. Big difference.

Another ritual of clearing I still use is to take a very hot shower or a salt bath, as a way of cleansing my auric field. Again, with intent. My focus is not so much on getting rid of negativity as remembering my inherent strength and allowing that to radiate outward into my auric field once more.

My goal is to let go of the need for ritual, tradition, ceremony and even formal prayer. All are useful tools and all separate me to some degree from Oneness.

Releasing the tools involves remembering more of who I AM, staying in the present moment with awareness and embracing whatever comes as part of the path to remembering even more of who I AM.


For the true seeker: Spiritual paradox is really just a term for those times in our lives when we come up against a Truth that our programmed mind has trouble embracing. Yet, something deeper than the intellect and our belief systems will urge the seeker forward to more than meets the eye.