Unauthorized Warrant Out For Your Arrest!
By Ray Gebauer - Man on a Mission (Mannatech SDI
Entrepreneur - 2001)
NOTE: Though
Ray Gebauer wrote this article for his Mannatech Team way back in 2001 – the content can be
applied to any SDI entrepreneur’s Team.
There is an unauthorized warrant out for your arrest (“arrest” means
to stop (as in cardiac arrest); to seize or capture). You’ve probably heard
about it on the news. Everyone’s seems to be affected to some degree. This
unauthorized terrorist agent that wants to arrest you is FEAR!
FEAR has illegally “invaded” our country (and other countries) since
9/11; plus we now have FEAR of anthrax; FEAR of terrorists on planes (and thus
fear of flying), FEAR of germ and chemical terrorist attacks; FEAR of opening
mail; FEAR of being laid off, etc. The list goes on.
Internal Terrorists
Are you being terrorized by FEAR?
FEAR can hijack your business, your future, and your very life.
In the presence of FEAR, people stop in their tracks. They become
paralyzed.
But the real truth is that FEAR itself does not paralyze us - we do it
to ourselves.
The Source of FEAR
Where does FEAR come from? It actually is self generated based on our
interpretations of what happens. We create it and then we may submit to this
force that we created. When we are dominated by FEAR (that we create), we have
consented to being ripped off—we can forfeit our health, our income, our
success, influence, future and our destiny.
FEAR is inherently is not bad—it is actually a good thing, just as
fire can be destructive or it can be good if it is handled and harnessed
properly. Sometimes, fear directs us to make better choices. Here’s an example:
avoiding real danger, such as having fear of swimming in the ocean where there
are sharks or ten foot waves—that is a good function of fear).
FEAR IS A GOOD THING
FEAR is also good in that it gives you a reason and opportunity to
create the opposite of FEAR, which is FAITH. Remember the story of Daniel who
was thrown into the hungry lions den? Don’t you think that he had a valid fear
of being eaten alive by starving lions? But according to the story, he also had
faith. Facing this FEAR enlarged his faith, and for the rest of his life, he
seemed to have no fear of facing powerful hostile kings.
FEAR can be your master, dominating you, making you small and
ineffective, OR FEAR can be your opportunity to enlarge, to be powerful. It is
your choice.
We live in a time where we have the opportunity to face, confront and
overcome FEAR. If we do not overcome it, we will be overcome by it. But when we
overcome FEAR, we are not back to where we were before—we are larger, we are
better, we are stronger and more powerful, we are more empowering to others!
TURNING THE TABLES ON FEAR
I say: “FEAR, I HAVE A WARRANT FOR YOUR ARREST! I ARREST YOU IN THE
NAME OF THE LAW (LAW OF FAITH)!”
Instead of letting FEAR arrest you, you arrest FEAR!
Your authority to arrest FEAR is your FAITH. So how do you get faith?
You get faith the same way you get FEAR—you CREATE it. We can choose
to create FEAR or create faith. Both are good when properly harnessed and used.
So why not let our FEAR be our opportunity to create and enlarge our
faith?
When we enlarge our faith, we enlarge our influence, our business, our
income, our life, our future and our destiny.
I have faith in God. I have faith in Mannatech. I have faith in
myself. When FEAR knocks on my door with a warrant for my arrest, I turn around
and hand FEAR a warrant for its arrest. I then USE FEAR to enlarge my faith,
and become a better person for it.
I don’t fight FEAR—that’s useless. I just let it be, seeing it for
what it really is—my own creation. But it is real, so I do place it under
arrest, and leverage greater faith and strength from it.
HOW HAS FEAR BEEN RIPPING YOU OFF IN YOUR BUSINESS?
FEAR did not just show up on 9/11. We’ve always had it around. That’s
why most people either won’t even try building a Mannatech business, or they
will put minimal effort into it—because of FEAR. FEAR of what people think,
FEAR of Failure, FEAR of not being good enough, etc.
So if FEAR has been keeping you under house arrest, keeping you out of
the game, turn the tables on FEAR and arrest FEAR. Do this with a spirit of
gratitude, knowing that BECAUSE of FEAR, you have a greater opening to create
FAITH.
Faith will take you where you want to go, including to the stars. FEAR
will put you underground. It’s your choice. “The Force” is with you—which side
of the force (FEAR or FAITH) can better serve you?
EXCERPT From TDS
Here is an excerpt (page 36) from my Team
Dynamics Business Building System Manual that addresses FEAR:
I say that for most people, the biggest challenge, what keeps their
feet nailed to the floor, is fear. Your greatest threat to success is
within you, not out there. It is fear that keeps people from even
trying. It is fear that keeps people from taking risks or taking action.
It is fear that causes people to quit and give up.
So what do you do about fear?
The first thing that is imperative to understand and accept is the
principle that whatever you resist will persist! The more you resist fear, and
try to directly overcome it, the stronger it gets. The more attention you give
it, the more it grows.
It’s like the alien Borg in the Star Trek movies who assimilated other
races announcing: “Resistance is futile!” This is especially true of
fear—your resistance is futile. If you resist fear, it has won and you have
lost.
The first step in dealing with fear is to accept it. Embrace it and
experience it fully. Just let it be there, and discover that fear can not
hurt or kill you. It is just there, like the sky is just there. In fact, fear
itself is not even bad, except when we allow it to limit and control us. We
then rip ourselves off and live a small life and can even miss our destiny.
The second step is to see fear as a form of darkness. How do you rid
yourself of darkness? Do you fight it? Resist it? Curse it? No, you just let it
be there, and then you just turn on the light. The light overcomes the
darkness, as long as it is on. Light is analogous to faith. So when you turn on
the faith, the fear disappears, or at least the power of fear is disabled.
So how do you keep the faith on? Confidence is the same as faith. So
you create faith by harnessing the past, present and future as I described
earlier. Also, since faith seems to be contagious, if you associate with others
who have greater faith than you, you catch it. It gets inside of you. In fact,
YOU become contagious. So “infect” your people with faith!
So what do you do if fear just keeps coming back? You just keep
turning on the faith. Don’t think that you need to get rid of fear. You don’t
need to. It can even be your teacher—just don’t let it be your master.
So rather than taking a stand against fear (remember, what you resist
will persist), take a stand of faith. Stand in confidence. Stand in belief.
Associate with those of faith. Attend meetings weekly. Go to all the Regional
and National events, and especially MannaFest - that’s where you will get your
biggest load of fuel (faith). The more people there are at a meeting, the more
you will be impacted, energized and empowered by being in the presence of the
collective faith of all the people. Be on at least one conference call a week.
Talk with your partner every day. Listen to tapes every day that can build up
your faith, especially tapes by Jim Rohn, Les Brown, Jack Zufelt, Zig Ziglar,
Brian Tracy, as well as the albums that I’ve done (Freedom Workshop, Starmaker
Workshop, Leadership Development Workshop, and the Empowerment Workshop).
Where does fear and faith come from? Both have the same source: your
imagination. You generate or create either one. We tend to think that fear or
faith comes from the outside, but actually they do not even exist for us unless
we create it.
FEAR OF REJECTION
For example, consider the issue of “fear of rejection”. This is a huge
obstacle for most people. This fear of rejection is very real, and it paralyzes
people. But the real problem is not “rejection”, it is the fear of rejection.
This fear of rejection is something you create. It is not real.
Want to know how to overcome the fear of rejection? It’s easy. Just
face the truth. That’s it. The truth is that there is no rejection in this
business, even though there is tons of FEAR of rejection.
Here’s my evidence. If I’m “sharing the gift” with you, and you tell
me that you are not interested, or that you think that network marketing is
stupid, or that it is a scam, or whatever, I may tell myself that I was just
rejected.
Here’s what actually happened:
• I
told you what I believed
• You
told me your opinion
• It
was different than my opinion
• I
made up that you rejected me
So where is the rejection? The truth is, that all that happened was
that there was a DIFFERENCE OF OPINION. There was no rejection! The rejection
part would be something I made up. The only time I would be rejected would be
if you said to me, “Ray, I reject you.” Okay, now I’ve been rejected.
But how often does that happen?
Unless I am told directly, “I reject you”, there is no
rejection going on. The only “rejection” is what I made up, what I imagined.
And with this I disempower myself.
Well, someone may say, maybe the guy just didn’t say it, but he was
actually rejecting you. So let’s check it out. I ask you, “are you rejecting
me?” You are going to say “no, I’m not rejecting you—I’m just rejecting
what you said. I have a different opinion.”
The truth is that it doesn’t even matter whether or not I am rejected,
because it is the FEAR that is the problem. Even if you did reject me, so what?
Am I injured? Will I die? But if I can just see the truth, that there is no
rejection anyway, I have nothing to fear, just like in the movie, The Matrix,
“there is no spoon.” You have to see the movie!
So choose to create faith instead of creating fear. Like the
exasperated mother said to her disobedient little boy—“I brought you into
the world, and I can take you out!”
Any fear that we have, WE created it. So we can “un-create” it by
creating faith that instantly displaces it. Choose an environment and people
that are congruent with and support faith. We are all susceptible to fear, and
we can all become people of great faith. So instead of unconsciously creating
fear and being dominated by it, why not consciously choose to create and
generate faith as the dominant force of your life? It’s our choice.
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I strongly recommend that you go back and reread
this email. Share it with others along with your personal comments. Share how
you are displacing your fear with faith. Empower others with faith. Then
empower yourself with faith so as to build your business more effectively and
faster than ever.
Appreciating you,
Ray Gebauer (Man on a Mission)
