Fear: The murder of your divinity

Most people tend to relate to fear as an emotion that limits the unfolding of their core development. Today let’s contemplate fear from different angles so you may gain perspective on the hidden slavery of fear.

Fear in the body arises when the element of air increases in the organs and in the cells. The air, being an element of space, tends to move in a cold way, leaving you feeling ungrounded, agitated and restless. The agitation can be so intense that you experience anxiety, a change of heart beat and confusion in the mind. When this type of  “body fear” arises, the only way to deal with it is with attunement in your lifestyle. Ayurveda offers many suggestions to deal with fear coming from the imbalance of the “Vatta dosha.”

Let’s contemplate fear from the perceptive of an inherited concept, where your mind has being directed to move in time and make assumptions. We are told to plan our future to make sure we save money and have the right strategy for survival. We are told to fear strangers, to use caution and be right in our decisions.

Those concepts remove you from trusting life and your capabilities. You then tend to override the natural sequence of inner development and your mind is transported into the future. Once there, subtle forms of fear appear: worry, concerns and tension. Yes, these attitudes are forms of fear, coming from the distorted perceptions about love, trust and surrendering.

You don’t trust nature. You divorced yourself from it in many ways. You  can not see the fact that you truly belong to Life and Life belongs to you. That sense of belonging creates trust, security and confidence. It provides a deeper understanding of the function of nature with you. This Loving trust becomes unshakable when you take your place in life. You don’t overrule with your mind; you see the facts of your lessons and you don’t go into the self-diminished ego that works very hard to disempower you.

Fear arises only when we are not rooted in your center, when you are deluded by fears about the future, when you are jealous of others, and when you manipulate your potential. Fear arises as a threatening force that gives you visions of death.

Fear disappears only when you look at it strait in the eyes, when you put things into perspective in any given situation, and when you accept what is inevitable.

Collectively, our most rooted fear is about death, not only about physical death but also about our survival, about the death of an image, a status, or the death of a loved one. All these forms of fear take shape as worries, preoccupations or attachments.

In the end you use fear to hide from your true voice. You hide from life, depriving it of your full presence and courage. You use fear to keep society in a mediocre stage, where inner freedom is an utopia and not a moment-to-moment reality.

Fear uses you and you use fear. That partnership enslaves humanity within limited norms that slowly strangle the vital force of our evolution. That relationship with fear, based in untruth concepts, affects your perception of yourself and is fundamentally the source of your anger, resentment and suffering.

From the shamanic perception, fear has become an identity that devours your potential. It is a force that enslaves you into the realms of hopelessness and helplessness. Fear becomes a social murderer, a monster with many faces and many convincing dialogues about how to keep you healthy prosperous and safe. It corrupts you and makes you a social being who is easy to manipulate.

To liberate oneself from fear, you need to confront fear. Your mind needs to have equanimity, perspective and inner leadership. You need a meditative mind, a feedback from someone who is fearless, and a sense of inner belonging.

Spiritually, fear arises when you favour duality and separation, when your choices are based in individuality, self -centeredness and self gain. When you perceive yourself as alone: you become the center of the universe; you need to defend it; you need to keep it alive; and you feel the need to negotiate with life, and to impose your rules.Duality not only makes the journey exhausting, but also perpetuates fear. If you live in fear OR if fear limits your core development, know that service, genuine concern for others, and knowledge about how small you are will liberate you from it.

Fear is obsolete on the path of the seeker. It is the first concept you need to face and is the corner stone of the rewarding inner journey towards self -liberation.