On Fear
Fear is too often misunderstood. Fear is an emotion; A signal to ourselves that we have insufficient information or resources to keep us safe and sane. Fear asks us to take action.
The irony I find with fear is that, when it comes to the Big questions, we fear both options:
- We fear our worthlessness & we fear our worth
- We fear our powerlessness & we fear our true capacity
- We fear our failure & we fear our success
- We fear not getting what we most want & we are utterly terrified of getting it (or is that just me?)
- We fear never truly being loved & we fear what it takes to be in that loving relationship
- We fear never finding ourselves & fear we won’t like what we find when we do
At the moment I tend to relax into my fear, to get to know it. I sit with it and try to understand what action the fear wants me to take. The anatomy of fear, has always been the path to my best decisions in the past. Sometimes fear only needs you to acknowledge that you don’t have control over the outcome and to remind you that you are going to be o.k. regardless of if the shit hits the fan or if it all turns out golden.
My mantras at the moment fluctuate between “I can hold space for whatever comes” and “I am the love that holds it all“. Fear is just another natural part of myself that I am growing to love. Until then I will just make space for it at my table.
