Fear can guide you to deeper understanding when you allow yourself to listen to Fear’s message.

Fear is a misconception about Truth which can become frozen within.

Fear holds within seeds for release.

Fear holds within you strands of panic and pain.

Fear also holds your truth.

This is the message that awaits you.

The challenge is allowing the message not to be overcome by the surrounding panic and pain.

Pain at its core is a subversion of truth.

Physical pain is held within the body when the body is asked to bear what it should not be required to bear.

Emotional pain arises in the midst of any pain when the heart witnesses what should not be required because it goes against individual truth.

Spiritual Pain arises when the Physical and Spiritual natures are out of balance between them and with Universal Life Force.

Fear thus arises from the occurrence of pain, the knowing and memory of pain, and the deep seated desire to avoid pain.

People though often mistake the way in which to deal with fear and pain as either avoidance or denial.  If x happens when y happens, I will now always avoid x and y.  In the initial moments this may be a very reasonable coping strategy, but over time x and y become frozen within you as arrested potential wanting to become form, festering like a sore one would rather, and usually does, ignore.

Frozen energy will push for release and niggle at the edges of your awareness until you have the courage to listen.

The response to fear is not avoidance or denial, but a gentle attention to fear through these questions:

What will allow me to release the frozen energy within, allowing it to complete its journey of potential to form to potential?

What is my fear’s message for me today?

Listen to the message of fear to find your way through.

Listen to fear’s message to find release from fear’s pain.

Listen to the message to find balance and truth.

In Witness with gentle attention,

Cheryl

PS — As someone who has dealt with crippling amounts of fear built up through too many events no one should bear, I do not speak of fear lightly, like it is something easy to put aside or to deal with simply.  Fear can overwhelm you making it difficult to live life at all.  Like I discuss above, eventually, the way beyond is through, by focusing on the message.  But don’t confuse listening to the message as a requirement to relive the pain.  Sometimes this is necessary, but not always.  And when it is too much to bear alone, find help, find support, someone who will stand witness with you to your message.

What do you fear?

What makes you worry?

How are you stuck in the past?

How are you stuck in the future?

Blame is of the past.

Fear of tomorrow anchors you in a future that can never happen.

What are you ready to let go?

Or would you rather see only fear so that you are distracted from trying for your best and failing.

Look your fear in the eye.  Step into your fear.

Is you fear more worthy than you?

Is your life, your highest express, less than the possibility of your fear?

What happens if you decide to act regardless of your fear?

Have you considered that your life can be lived despite the presence of fear?

Sometimes releasing fear becomes an obstacle to your life.

Acknowledge fear AND live life.

Do not let fear stop you.  Take back your power, focus on You and in this moment live your life.

In love and light, we are complete.

In Joy!
Cheryl

Fear is also a bodily sensation.  Your gut clenches, your shoulders stiffen, your breathing is interrupted.  Your worry that your worst fears will materialize — especially if you don’t do something, now.

One of the most insidious aspects of Fear is that it pushes us to do exactly the opposite of what will bring us relief and a perspective for powerful action. In other words, fear pushes us to act out of fear, to act because we are afraid.  Fear wants us to blindly accept the terror of an only imagined future.  Fear hopes to dupe us into acting against our best interests.  Fear goads us into acting from aversion.

Concluding you think you know what will and will not happen is the problem. As human beings we have a limited view of all the infinity possibility which exists in this moment and expands ever wider in the next moment.  We can often intuit the next possible moment.  However we also must consider that part of the problem is that when we act in fear we contribute to our future the stomach-clenching energy of aversion, terror and fear.  When you act from fear your contribution to All That Is is your fear. Thinking to avoid fear by contributing your fear only generates more fear, creating a circle of fear within you and within your world.  You choose one to avoid the other and instead of getting relief, you only get more fear which tempts you once again to continue the vicious circle of unending fear.

Instead of reacting in fear, there is an alternative: Choice.  Can you stand in a place where you acknowledge that you do not know it ALL?  Instead, can you stand in a place where you allow the best expression of all to exist? Can you allow for possibility that you can not see?  Can you choose to move from a peaceful or joyfully inner sense where you feel the excitement of a future unfolding beyond the limits of fear?

Fear is not an arcane discussion reserved only for the spiritually adept.  Fear is a real issue that pokes at all of us everyday.  Economics, the weather, our health and more all bring us face to face with fear and the possibility of choice all day long.

Consider our current political climate.  How have you made your choice about who to vote for?  Have you chosen one side over the other because of worry, anxiety, and fear raised within you by the other side?

I know that there is much for me personally that makes it very difficult to not choose out of fear.  I can almost get myself hyperventilating over what that “crazy guy” proposes as solutions to political, social, cultural, economic, and spiritual upheaval.  I could very easily go to bed each night bathed in a cloak of worry.  But life lived always because of fear is a life lived always in fear.

I reject a fearful life.  I know that my life can be richer and fuller without the doom of fear.

More importantly, fear is not what I want to contribute to myself and others.  If I live in fear then all I have to offer is fear.

Instead, I believe that I always have a choice — in any situation.  I always get to decide how I will react and act in any situation.  I choose, here and now, to live my life experiencing the joy of choice.  I will make my decisions based on the excitement raised within me about the possibilities of my life.  I will allow the infinite possibility of the mazing universe to bring toward me more than I could ever imagine.  And in doing so, I will live by the intention of contributing possibility, opportunity, and choice to the world around me.  A life lived because of joy is a life lived always in joy.

As you contemplate the choices you have before you in this political season, I urge you to support your candidates out of the excitement raised in you by them as the amazing individuals that they are.  The future will be what the future will be and in this moment you have the powerful option to decide what you will contribute.  Consider carefully the many downsides of choosing one candidate because of the worry, anxiety, and fear raised within you by their opponent. Instead, release the tension in your shoulders, take a breath, unclench those aching muscles. Breathe in and exhale.  Now …   Claim your freedom to live free of fear.  Affirm:  I no longer live my life in fear.  I choose to live my life in joy, excitement, wonder, and peace.  All my actions begin with my choice!

In Joy!

Cheryl

P. S.  If somehow this seems rather naive, that nothing can overcome the realities of our dire situation, then know that this is the choice that you have made and that for you fear has won.  Peace begins at home, within you.  Peace, joy, excitement, wonder, and balance are all choices we make about what goes on inside our minds, bodies, and hearts.