Fear as a teacher

What is fear? 

During my research for this post I came across this witty definition: 

 “F-E-A-R: has two meanings: 

    Forget Everything And Run 

or 

    Face Everything And Rise. 

The choice is yours.” 

— Zig Ziglar. 12/11/2017

According to the American Psychology Association

Fear is an intense emotion aroused by the detection of imminent threat, involving an immediate alarm reaction that mobilizes the organism by triggering a set of physiological changes.

This might be the reason the human species survived some of its challenges until now. The fact that our ancestors were able to detect a threat and out of fear and the will to overcome it found ways to be the fittest of a number of situations that had risen. 

I tend to dislike fear for what it makes me feel, but I have learned that if I let it pass through me it cannot hurt me, but instead leave me with a lesson of a specific experience. The unknown, the possibility that what is imminent might not necessarily pose a threat nor what is new, nor what is different, nor what is beyond understanding. Fear can teach how to prevent a threat but it can also be an awakening for a new beginning. That which needs to be overcome. Fear as a hurdle to overcome, to understand the undiscovered truth of the new. 

I fear one too many things, and it is okay to acknowledge that it happens. The choice will always be on my side. I can be reckless and ignore it, I can try to understand it, to desiccate whatever it is that is producing the emotion within me, I might even invite it for drinks and let its purpose unfold. The truth of the matter is that fear is a teacher of choice. Do or do not. Let it pass through or let it reside in you.  Once again I think it is pertinent to bring the litany of fear from Frank Herbert's Dune. 

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

The experience is not the individual but a part of it. 

Fear is not the end, but an instant.

The dreamer, the seer, the player of woven dreams made real, the awareness of the soul manifested - only those different manifestations of the same true-self can unweave, disconstruct, face, obliterate, transform, ascend ... over fear as a limitation of being. 

Fear is an alert in the ongoing life, not the end of it. 

Dreamer of the infinite possibilities

Today I heard Deepak Chopra speak about the dreamer and the avatar. We perceive ourselves as the avatar most of the time, when in fact we are one of the infinte possibilites that are been dreamnt right about now. All our illusions, name, parents, country, status, love interests, friendships, jobs, worries, accomplisments, they are all part of the same dream that we are undergoing. It was purposed that what is left to do is for the experience (the illusion of life, the awareness) to join its dreamer. So, to you dreamer, I leave you this message, even though I am unware if you are able to perceive this language one of thousands in this vast universe you are creating. I wish I could understand more of what it is to be an spectator of countless experiences. I know now that whatever I do is irrelevant for my wishes, as this is all a manifestation to you. Good or bad are just constructs within the dream. Within my own experience of liveness what I can tell is that to know that this is just one of many possibilities takes the weight of importance of my shoulders. I can just flow with the experience, and allow myself to go. This can help me cope with an ego that is itself an illusion of control. Come and find me in my dreams if you can. There are experiences to be had there too.