“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Excerpt from the December 2015 newsletter – Also available in PDF format on my website
Forget Fear! Think Freedom
Recent world events have brought up a lot of understandable emotions for many people throughout the world; perhaps sadness, loss, grief, anger, empathy, love and more, and those emotions need to be processed appropriately, as emotions do.
However, they have once again also raised the spectre of fear within our society, and that is probably the most damaging emotion on the planet. When people live in fear, individually or collectively, then it places limitations in the way of their lives that may prevent them having a happier and more enriching life. Fear will often keep you exactly where you are now, and sometimes without hope of change.
Fear is, though, a part of the human experience, and whether it is triggered by a tragedy in the world (and the responses to it), a person you know but seek to avoid, a situation that alarms you in some way or perhaps the remembrance of your own mortality, it is seemingly a very real emotion within you.
We are told that the primitive flight or fight response that stems from our ancestors is triggered subconsciously when we encounter something that frightens us, or even when we think about encountering that something, and that then causes our parasympathetic nervous system to respond accordingly and in a very real way.
If it is encoded into our subconscious in some way, then that would suggest that the emotion of fear is based on past experiences. So, fear is based on the information that you are carrying around within your subconscious. That information will be from the recent or distant past, and some might say (especially the undersigned) that would come from the current or even past lives. Much as information is written onto the hard disk of a computer, the information from past experiences is written into your subconscious mind in the same literal way. The information isn’t judged as wrong or right; it is just accepted as part of the programme and then re-acted upon when triggered. That’s what the subconscious mind does; it just acts automatically.
A strong subconscious remembrances of fear will likely prevent you from doing things and those can often be irrational. An arachnophobic living in the UK has nothing to fear from being in the presence of a relatively small non-poisonous spider, as it cannot harm them in any way, except through the fear itself. However the response experience by the phobic person is very real to them, and will trigger the phobic reaction.
Often a strong fear will lead to avoidance of the phobic stimulus, and that might be things that you could enjoy. People with a fear of flying are likely to be unable to fly, and thus find it more challenging to go on overseas trips. Whilst flying has its theoretical dangers, it is statistically the safest form of transport by a long way. I once knew a lady who had a fear of water, and she lived in a country where the beach was close to her house, and she would have liked nothing more than to walk her dogs on the beach, but she couldn’t because the fear was too overwhelming when she got too close to the water.
However, much as fear is part of the human experience, it is much more importantly part of our human evolution to learn how to overcome our fears, and for many that is a journey that needs to be accomplished within this lifetime.
Much like the hard drive of a computer can be re-written, so can the subconscious mind. Sometimes, that is the result of a strong positive decision. I know someone who overcame a strong fear of flying, by simply doing it repeatedly with a strong positive mindset they realized that it was easier than they thought and before they knew it, they must have re-written the programme and now they fly without a second thought.
Hypnosis, regression, theta healing, meditation and so many other complementary therapies facilitate our access of the subconscious mind (the lady with the water phobia used regression and now swims regularly in the ocean), and all of these tools, and more, are available to humanity at this time for a reason.
It is part of our human evolutionary imperative to evolve and to learn how to overcome our fears, for it is part of the goal for humans everywhere to live without fear both individually and collectively.
Some might say that fear keep us safe, but I’d question that every day of the week. Individually, fear limits our options and puts obstacles where they need be none. Biologically, it stresses the adrenals and kidneys and can impact on our health.
Collectively, fear energises unhealthy, unwanted behaviours in the world that manifest on our TV screens and in our newspapers. Fear is what exacerbates the shadow within all of us, and when we don’t acknowledge and work through that, then that simply adds to the collective shadow, and that’s what causes tragedy in the world.
The solution is simple, though some situations of course take longer than others. If you have a deeper fear, find a good hypnotherapist. As Susan Jeffers’ wonderful book is titled “Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway”. When you do that and engage actively with your fear, then you re-write the patterns in your subconscious mind, and you also re-write your own energy field, and then you no longer attract fear based situations in your life.
By engaging with a situation or person, or something you fear, you have nothing to lose (except the fear itself) and you have everything to gain. When you start to live without fears, then you start to live with true freedom. There is nothing to be afraid of, except carrying fear-based patterns within you for any longer.
Think Freedom
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