Great post Ron! My parents became Baha'i a few years ago, and it seems a beautiful accepting religion, full of kind lovely people!
I used to fear failure intensely, and any criticism was terrifying to my ears! Wow, I used to really screw my ego into a stupid place sometimes, can't imagine how much time was wasted over it. I read the Toltec books last year (thanks Chris!) and learnt about just letting go on all that. Doing EFT this year also dumped a lot of the fear.
Gary Craig (EFT founder) does not use the words failure or mistake, he uses the term "stubbing your toe". It's to make the point that mistakes and failure are not a disaster. Usually, (I say only usually) no-one is killed by our failures, and the only casuality is our pride. Once we can move beyond that, "failures" are brilliant learning experiences aren't they?
Joy to you
Hazel
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