What do you fear?
“Fear is only as deep as the mind allows.”
— Japanese Proverb
We all experience fear and in so many different ways.
And sometimes we need that fear, we need to have that fight or flight response. It is a necessary and very welcome response when the time is right (ie: we're in the woods and see a bear a few yards away or we're heads down walking with our eyes buried in our phones and we almost walk right into traffic). Sometimes these moments of fear can be a wake up call, a chance to lift our heads up and make a change (or run from a bear....).
But it's run rampant for so many people and we sometimes don't even realize that we are living in it on a constant basis.
And it's exhausting us
When you live in a constant state of fear it causes a separation, not only from other people but more importantly from ourselves. (And it completely taxes our sympathetic nervous system).
When we allow ourselves to live in an excess state of fear, we are in abandonment of true self. For how can we be in our divine state when we are primed to run and fight.
We can fear ourselves even to the point of fearing our own divine, fearing our own amazingness.
Fearing doing too well. Because then we have to hold ourselves to the new level of authenticity and vulnerability that is required when diving into a deeper sense of what we are capable of in this world. And to make it more personal, my own fear of what I am actually capable of in this world.
Or are we afraid because we can fail and loose it all? Or that unconsciously we think we're not worth it?
I think that sometimes it is directly linked to our own sense of worth, which can hold us back, I know that this is a truth for me and the deep healing work that I am in the middle of myself.
When we have a false belief that "I'm not good / smart / attractive / ect enough" it holds us back from stepping out of our comfort zones. But I am hear to tell you that those are false beliefs that a LOT of people carry within themselves.
I truly believe that we are all doing the best we can at any given time, with the knowledge and experiences that we have accumulated in our lives up until that point.
But we (people) go unconscious and don't even notice that we could do better for ourselves.
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
— Nelson Mandela
I am here for you, I believe in you and I also feel fear. But remember that the sensation in your body from fear (heart racing, butterflies in your stomach) very closly mirror the sensations of deep excitment as well. It's our minds that chooses which way to look at it.
It's a choice.
With love,
Emily
