Reframing the fears
Do you have any irrational fears that keep occurring in your life? the ones that often restrict you from obtaining your freedom at its purest? If yes, then This article is for you!
How do you distinguish fears from phobias? Not all fears are harmful, some are useful. in addition, the ones we have gathered since childhood. For example, the dark, bugs, snakes, spiders, etc. how could some fears be useful? You are probably asking yourself. let’s explore the fear of snakes. Since primary school, we have learned about different species of snakes, some are venomous some aren’t. We created this narration, estimated and perceived them as whole. Besides, we created a sense of safety of not approaching and fearing them in the belief that they might harm us.
This is clever, not many of us are reptilian experts to know which or what is venomous. Thus, this type of fear may not be an irrational one after all.
Many of us have experienced various types of fear throughout our lifetime. Some of them can keep our progression unchained, some can keep us safe from harm. Fears can be compartmentalize, where they can simply be classified as fear of fear itself. Whereas some hold their potent validation. it is just a matter of exploring the layers of the importance of that fear. they can transgressed to being irrational such as the fear of height, enclosed places, fear of death, fear of loneliness, social phobia, fear of intimacy, fear of old age, fear of failure, fear of insects, etc. those fears vary from mild to intense. Among the symptoms you may experience sweaty palms, nausea, anxiety, blurred vision, and increase muscle tension or muscle weakness etc.
Phobias are established in one’s life since childhood. they transcended from one form to another. they are a profound product of many experiences that occurred over the years which have resulted in anxiety. A phobia can just be a belief. it is a result due to past trauma, When fear makes its way in our lives it can progressed and reach many avenues. As much as we have the power to alter our unwanted thoughts, we also have the potential to alter our fears.
Fears are to be felt, name them, name their influences into your life to create acceptance. As Laura Barnes said, fears can be strapped in the backseat of our lives, we acknowledge and hold the awareness of their presence in our lives, however, we do not allow them to drive us, we do not allow them to be in control. It is like disabling the fear, they are there in the passenger seat strapped up however they are not allowed to take control of the wheel.
Are certain fears are imperative to have? absolutely! Like my reference to the snake, When it comes to irrational fears, those are the ones that sometimes do not serve a purpose in our lives which can potentially suppress our potential. there are many levels to fears. Some can be what we need to discover ourselves if we allow ourselves to leap, that is when the fear serves a purpose. Besides, a fear that does not serve any purpose, which can be destructive to the host. For example, the fear of leaving a toxic environment or a marriage\relationship. It can be deadly! There is no other way to approach this, not only deadly as physically destructive but also spiritually destructive to the host.
having the fear of other people due to the feeling of not feeling safe. many times we tend to protect ourselves from other people due to our many past experiences. to the point we do not allow ourselves to explore the beauty of others. This type of fear can keep us in the lacking. This is when the exploration of our awareness comes into play to allow our intuition to decide for us of whom to invite in our space. our soul recognize other people’s without biased. that is when we allow the soul to decide and strapped the ego in the backseat.
Due to the cycle of repetitive disappointments not only from people that I have encountered but from my very own mother. i spent years battling this fear. Which then transgressed to this massive lack of trust. I could not bear to face that repetition. Once i allowed my soul to be in control, i have ultimately chose the path to freedom. You will know when a fear is serving a valid survival purpose when it is not draining the essence of your spirit, or placing that barricade when it comes to moving forward. Once the fear becomes an obstacle it is no longer a fear, it has transgressed into a burden.
coming to the conclusion of reframing that fear was crucial to me. I needed to cleanse and free my soul from that resistance to undertake the mission of a light worker.I had to reclaim the essence of me by releasing that resistance that was lingering in to the core of my shadow self.
One must pick apart and go through the file cabinets deep within their souls to know when there are fears that are serving a current survival purpose. One must magnify the quality of the fear and its equivalence. Some fears are to be reframed to allow them to serve you. To add, we sometimes have the belief that it is serving us, in reality it is an obstacle that must be reframed. one must dig into their core to retrieve the answers of the purpose of that fear in their lives. it is a matter of waving all possibilities around that fear.
Let’s dive into the fear of failure. Life is constituted of many different types of failures which I do not anticipate as failures but blessings. When failures tend to make their appearances in our lives, at first glance we often get upset, we blame everything, we even lose sight of faith because we tend to create this belief of “the world is against us”. I have personally gone through many dark night of the soul episodes. Did they break me, torn my soul apart, created a massive disconnection? Of course! I went through some failures that have destroyed my soul. Looking back, those experiences were preparing me, they were there to strengthen me for a bigger than self purpose.
Life is full of surprises, setbacks, uncertainties, disappointments that are out of our control. The biggest mistake we often commit is not allowing ourselves to experience those challenges as any other events that unfold in our lives. We seek and crave control. we must allow certain situation to run its course.For instance, a common cold when we have a common cold our body can allow the virus to run its course without taking any pills or cough syrup if we allow it to. Is it an uncomfortable process? Yes, because the runny nose, headache, etc. don’t make us feel at our best, but we know it will pass.
When the fear of failure makes its presence known,one must allow those failures to run its course, by holding on to optimism.There is no tunnel without an ending. How do we hold to optimism is by reframing the ANTS. we must seek the lesson in every obstacle. one must take accountability from the previous failures to create a better stronger version of them.
In conclusion, You would recognize when a fear is blocking you from your truest essence, from obtaining your freedom once you acknowledge the excuses as a resistance.One must find security by fully assessing their decisions in finding the causation to the effect. Analyzing your routine, reframing your daily ethics, beliefs, mindsets, and revising the aspects of any decision. we must allow our souls to truly shine without limitation, without restriction to obtain freedom at its purest.
Many Blessings
The Owl