WHERE WE TALK ABOUT FEAR
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Today, I want to talk about fear. I realize that this is a big topic, one that we will not be able to cover completely in just one post, but I have been wanting to tackle this subject for a long time. I realize that we have touched on the issue of fear in a great many of our previous conversations, but up to this point, we have never devoted a single post to this topic. The only question is where to start.
Let us start with you, with who you really are. You are high-frequency consciousness composed of unconditional love, the unconditional love of Source. That is who you are and that is all there is. Nothing else exists. Fear represents everything that you are not. It is the absence of love. Anything else to be said about fear follows from these simple facts.
When you say that unconditional love is all there is, that nothing else exists, are you saying that fear is not real, that it doesn’t actually exist?
Technically, yes, that is what we are saying. Fear does not exist. It is not real, except conceptually. It is an artificial construct, part of the vibrational contrast of the physical plane, created by Source as a means of fostering the growth and expansion of the Universe. This is not to say that the state of fear is not something real and tangible for all living human persons. It is very much a real experience. If it were not, the experiment of the physical plane would not work at all. For the physical plane to function as it was intended, all incarnated beings need to believe that fear, along with its many variations and permutations, is real. This is made possible by your agreement to forget who you really are prior to your incarnation on the Earth plane, what we have often referred to as “metaphysical amnesia.”
When do you mean when you say “fear, along with its many variations and permutations”?
All of the emotional states that human persons experience on the physical plane are vibrational echoes of either love or fear. Indeed, there are really only two emotions – love and fear. Appreciation, empathy, understanding, compassion, joy, peace – these are just a few of the variations of unconditional love. Greed, envy, overwhelment, hatred, depression, anger – these are just a few of the variations of fear. In the end, all of these variations lead back to either one of two sources – love or fear.
Could you expand on that a bit? Like how exactly is anger a variation of fear?
In every instance where you experience an emotion like anger or frustration or jealousy or hatred, with a little exploration on your part you will find that these emotions always resonate back vibrationally to the fear state. For example, jealousy can spring from a fear that you are unable to create what others are creating for themselves; depression can be triggered by a fear that you are powerless and cut off from the world; hatred can arise out of a fear of those who are different and separate from yourself. It is no coincidence that all of these low-frequency, fear-based emotions bring with them feelings of disconnectedness, feelings of powerlessness, because that is exactly how they arise from within your emotional energy field, as a pinching off of your connection to Source energy. Indeed, it is the experience of the fear state that is the indicator that you are no longer fully connected, no longer in complete alignment with Source energy, with who you really are. That is what fear is all about, essentially. That is its function on the physical plane as part of your emotional guidance system. To assist in guiding you back to the experience of who you really are.
Could you tell us again how our emotional guidance system works?
All emotions that you experience as part of your life as a human person on the physical plane, whether they are of high-vibrational frequency like love and peace and joy or of low-vibrational frequency like fear or anxiety or depression, function as a part of a carefully constructed guidance system that allows you to gauge from one moment to the next whether or not you are aligned with the innate, loving, spiritual consciousness you truly are. While your experience of these emotional states may never seem simple to the human side of yourself, the truth is that this emotional guidance system is conceptually very basic and straightforward. As we said, in earthly terms, love and fear are essentially the only two emotions that actually exists. Love and its variations feel good while fear and its variations feel bad. When you feel good, you are aligned with Source energy, with who you really are. When you feel bad, it is a sign that you are not completely aligned with Source and are more aligned energetically with who you are not. It really is that simple.
What about people who say that love hurts or brings pain? Or people who really enjoy roller coasters or scary movies? Those experiences would seem to run counter to what you are saying about love feeling good and fear feeling bad.
Romantic love, earthly love, is not quite the same as the unconditional love of Source. The pain or hurt that often accompanies romantic love stems from the conditions that humans place on loving relationships, feelings like jealousy, longing, resentment, issues around abandonment or commitment. If you take a closer look, you will discover that these “bad” feelings always arise from a state of fear that underlies the sometimes-blissful state of romantic love. As for those who are able to gain some physical excitement from the experience of fear, these individuals have found a way to transform fear into a state of exhilaration, an intense, heightened feeling of a connection to one’s innermost self. Generally, this type of experience is only temporary, which explains why some human persons find themselves ultimately addicted to this type of experience. While it may serve as an example of the kind of experience that you are seeking – pure connection to Source energy, to the energy of life – it seldom results in a strong, stable alignment.
How, then, can we use our experience of fear to achieve a stronger, more stable alignment with who we really are?
The first and perhaps most important step in dealing with your fear, regardless of the form it takes, is to allow it to be, allow it to exist within your emotional field. Repressing your fears, or expending energy trying to convince yourself that your fear does not exist, is always counter-productive and merely reinforces the false notion that fear is a force more powerful than your own true nature. We know that this is not an easy proposition for most human beings, acknowledging and accepting your fear, especially when that fear threatens to overwhelm you, but it is a crucial part of the process of remembering who you are, for without allowing yourself to actually experience your fear, you cannot fully experience who you are not, and if you cannot fully experience who you are not, you cannot come to a clear and profound understanding of who you really are. The most efficient way, in practical terms, to allow your fear to be, is to breathe, quiet your mind and relax as best you can so that your fear does not overwhelm or flood your emotional energy system. Sometimes, this can seem like an impossible task, especially if the fear sensations you are experiencing are overly intense, and in these types of situations, you can only do your best to hang on, ride the wave of your fear and allow it to subside on its own, which it will eventually do. It is also important, as you breathe and relax, to maintain your presence and awareness. This will allow you to more fully understand and appreciate the dynamics of your fear state – where your trigger points lie, whether or not it is a part of a pattern, whether or not it is even an appropriate response to a given situation. This allowing will also give you confidence in dealing with similar types of situations if they were to arise again in the future. Ultimately, it is up to you to take control of your own fear by reminding yourself that what you are experiencing is NOT who you are. That is the whole point, after all.
Is there anything else we can do to better manage our fear?
There can be great benefit if you can allow yourself to identify your fear and acknowledge it on a conscious level. “I feel afraid, but it’s OK. Everything is OK. I know what this is. I know what this sensation is. It’s fear, the opposite of who I really am. That’s all it is. It’s just fear. No harm can come to me because I am not alone. I am completely safe and secure because I am connected to the Source of the entire Universe.” This is just one example of the type of thinking you might use to calm yourself down and allow whatever fear you are experiencing to release itself from your energy field. We encourage you to explore other ways, your own personal ways, of dealing with those moments when fear threatens to overwhelm you. Awakening to your true nature is a process, after all, one that unfolds over the course of many lifetimes. Each lifetime affords you the opportunity to create circumstances and relationships that activate, in one way or another, an experience of the fear state as well as an experience of the state of unconditional love. Through repetition of these two types of experiences and a comparison of how they feel to you, over time you eventually realize that you no longer need to feel bad and that feeling good is actually preferable. The specifics of how you are led to that realization is part of your own design, your own creation. Each incarnated being maps out their own path of discovery by using an infinite variety of intended experiences to essentially wake yourself up to your true nature. Everything that you encounter, and we mean EVERYTHING, has been chosen by you and is a part of your process of awakening. So, embrace whatever finds its way to you and love what arises, no matter how frightening, no matter how daunting, for in the end, whatever you experience will lead you to where you have intended to be – at one with your true self.
This has been a very challenging, but ultimately very enlightening conversation. I look forward to exploring this topic further in the future.
As do we. Until next time.
Thank you all.
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