FEAR

“I am fearless.”- “I am powerful.”

Fearlessness

Fear which is not understood and befriend can drive our thoughts, words, and actions. Keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future.

We can transform our fear. The practice of living fully in the present moment—what we call mindfulness—can give us the courage to face our fears and no longer be pushed and pulled around by them. To be mindful means to look deeply, to touch our true nature of interbeing and recognize that nothing is ever lost.

The first part of looking at our fear is just inviting it into our awareness without judgment. We just acknowledge gently that it is there. This brings a lot of relief already. Then, once our fear has calmed down, we can embrace it tenderly and look deeply into its roots, its sources. Understanding the ori­gins of our anxieties and fears will help us let go of them. Is our fear coming from something that is happening right now, or is it an old fear, a fear from when we were small, that we’ve kept inside? When we practice inviting all our fears up, we have many things to treasure and enjoy.

That home is deep down in our subconscious, where the films of the past are always projected. Every night you go back and watch those films and suffer. And the future you constantly worry about is nothing other than a projection of fear and desire from the past.

We think that, to be happier, we should push away or ignore our fear. the only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. instead trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.We are very afraid of being powerless. but we have the power to look deeply at her fears, and then the fear cannot control us. we can transform our fear. the practice of living fully in the present moment- what we call mindfulness – can give us a courage to face our fears and no longer be pushed and pulled around by them.

So do not think that the answers come only from outside they come from inside too if you don’t acknowledge and look deeply at our own fears, we can draw dangerous and accidents to us.

We all experience fear, but if we can look deeply into our fear, we will be able to fear ourselves from a script and touch joy. Fear Keeps Us focus on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay.

The first part of looking at her fear is just inviting it into our awareness without judgment. We just acknowledge gently. We just acknowledged gently that is there. This brings a lot of relief already then, once her fear is calmed down, we can embrace it tenderly and look deeply into its roots, its sources.

Understanding the origins of our anxieties and fear will help us let go of them. Is our fear coming from something that happened right now, or is it an old fear a fear from when we were small, that we’ve kept inside? When we practice inviting all our fears up, we become aware that we are still alive, that we still have many things to treasure and enjoy.

To really be free of fear we must look deeply into the ultimate dimension to see our true nature of no birth and no death when we understand that we are more than our physical bodies, that we don’t come from nothingness and well not disappearing and nothingness, we’re liberated from fear.

Fearless is not only possible it is the ultimate Joy but don’t wait for a critical moment to arrive before you start practicing to transform your fear and live mindfully. You have to realize it yourself. If you make a habit of mindfulness practice, when difficulties arise, you will already know what to do.

A Time Before

One of the first things we can do to soothe their fear is to talk to it you can sit down with that fearful child inside and be gentle with him or her. You might say something like this colon dear child, I am your adult self I would like to tell you that you’re no longer a baby, helpless and vulnerable. We have strong hands and feet; we can very well defend ourselves. So there’s no reason why we have to continue to be fearful anymore.

I believe that talking to the child like that can be very helpful, because the inner child may be deeply wounded, and the child has been waiting for us to come back to her. All her childhood wounds are still there, we have been so busy we have no time to go back and help heal the child. That is why it’s very important to take the time to go back, to recognize the presence of the Wounded child in US to talk to him and to help him heal. We remind him often that we’re no longer a helpless child, we have grown into adult, we can very well take care of ourselves.

Practice: Taking Care of Our Inner Child – p-13

Put down two cushions. First set on one cushion and pretend you are the helpless, vulnerable child. You express yourself: you’re one, I am very helpless. I cannot do anything. It is very dangerous. I am going to die; nobody is taking care of me. You have to speak the language of the baby. And while you’re expressing yourself like that, it’s the feeling of fear, hopelessness stress, and helplessness come up, please allow them to come up into consciousness and recognize them. Allow the helpless child enough time to express yourself fully that is very important.

After she is finished, move to the other cushion to play the role of the adult self. As you look over at the other cushion, imagine the helpless child is sitting there and talk to her: listen to me I am your adult self. You’re no longer a helpless child; we have grown up into an adult already. We have enough intelligence to protect yourself, to survive by ourselves. We do not need someone to take care of us anymore.

When you do this, you will see that the feeling of Safety and Security you want to feel doesn’t need to come from cleaning to another person are from constantly distracting yourself. Acknowledging and soothing the fear within is the first step in letting go.

Understand that we are now safe is essential for us to have suffered abuse, fear or pain in our past. Sometimes we need a friend, a brother, a sister, a teacher, to help us not back into the past.

We are now capable of not just defending ourselves but of living fully in the present moment and giving to others.

Source – FEAR by Thich Nhat Hanh