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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The Anatomy of Fear

Fear has many faces. It’s important for you to get to know them all so that they may be brought into the light of your conscious awareness and dissipated from your vibrational density. Vibrational Transformation dissolves the fear that keeps you trapped in separation – separation from self, from others and from the Divine within you.

Fear is a physical sensation induced by a real or perceived threat. It’s a basic survival response that occurs in reaction to a stimulus, such as crossing paths with a lion as you walk through the bush, seeing a tornado bear down on your home, or finding out your mother-in-law is visiting next week. 

In nature, animals will experience fear and often run, or resort to some other built in defense mechanism, until the perceived threat is gone. They will then shake it out of their bodies, release the charge, and move on with the rest of their day. What’s different about most of us is that once we experience a fearful event we tend to hold on to the emotion and store it away in our cells… sometimes for years.

What’s fascinating about fear is that it almost always relates to future events.  Check it for yourself.  When was the last time you felt fear… or maybe there’s something you fear right now. Maybe you have a fear for your health, or the health of a loved one. Maybe you have fear of losing your job, or bouncing a check. Maybe the last time you felt fear was when you handed your car keys to your teenage son.

Notice that in all of these cases, the fear is about the future, not the present moment.  You fear for your future health or the worsening of your present condition (in the future). Your fear about losing your job is in the future – if you fear losing a job it probably means you have one right now.  Has that check bounced yet?  Has anything happened yet in that moment you’re handing your keys over?

Rarely, if ever, does fear actually belong in the present moment.  Indeed, whenever I work with someone experiencing fear, I immediately check to see if they’re living in the present moment or thinking about some future event or situation.  Inevitably I find that they’re thinking about the future, missing the beauty of the moment they’re in right here, right now. 

For the most part, people allow fear to govern their daily interactions and, as a result, because we as individuals inform the collective experience, fear dominates the collective.

So many of us live in a chronic state of fear, or stress and stress causes 85% of all disease in this country. It’s an insidious emotion that is most often not based in reality and keeps you from living a life of peace, calm, harmony and oneness

So unless you’re standing face to face with a lion, in the eye of a real storm, or going at it head-to-head with your mother-in-law, the next time you feel fear arising within you, bring yourself back to the present moment, breathe, ask yourself if there’s actually a “lion” that you need to run from or do battle with, and you’ll inevitably find that the only thing you really need to do is simply breathe once again.

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Join me on 11:11:11 as we shift our vibrational resonance out of fear and into love, and change the course of our own lives, and the collective for the better.

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