Discourse

Fear

Fear is the greatest challenge we face in our lives. Fear comes bundled up as reason or pragmatism or it comes hand in hand with tradition or culture. It creeps into our lives disguised as love or care. How is it that no one teaches us the history of fear or the biochemistry of fear? We live in fear hoping that one-day someone or something will either rescue us or at the very least will numb us from the constant anxiety that fear creates.
Fear has a smell - it has a palpable quality that we are all familiar with. We feel it as a stomachache, tightness in our chests, constriction in our throats or as dread in our minds. We live with it with a smile on our faces and cheer in our voices. Why do we do that? Why do we not want to address the fear at hand?
Here is an exercise in consciousness that will help you to release fear from your body.
Sit down in a comfortable position. Take a deep breath and close your eyes. Allow yourself to adjust to the awareness within. When you are ready take another deep breath and ask your body where it is holding fear. You may feel it or sense it. It could be your stomach or your foot - just take the first place that comes into your awareness. What does the fear feel or look like? Again, allow yourself to know it – become familiar with it consciously so that you can recognize it. Now ask that place in your body what colour or colours does it want to release the fear. Take the first colour(s) that come into your awareness and imagine it coming from the universe directly into the body part that is holding the fear. Imagine the colour(s) dissolving the fear. Take as much colour as you need. You may feel a shift or a tingling sensation. Once it is cleared take a couple of deep breaths and open your eyes.
You can repeat this exercise as many times as you would like. Remember you do not have to live with fear. Phew!