Dropping Fear

Dropping fear is a vital way of reaching what you want in life, but it can seem really difficult. There are two ways I've learned that fear can be effectively dropped/released.

In the first, just imagine that your feeling of fear, and all that it is involved with (such as the circumstances) takes the shape of a ball that you are holding in front of you. In fact, you can hold your hands in front of you just as if you were actually holding a ball at tummy level. And now - reach up. In order to reach up and touch or take anything else, the ball (in this case the fear) will have to fall. While reaching to higher things, you can't hold the fear, it's impossible.

I aws very inspired by a podcast by Marianne Williamson where she talks about recognizing what the fear is teaching you. This other method is to pray not for the fear to be released but for that within you that holds the fear to be changed, so that it no longer needs to hold the fear.

We have to actually hold fear - it's a tool, a gift we have been given; and we have to keep the gift because it is there to teach us something valuable. We have to be willing to relinquish it, but the only way we can relinquish it is by learning the lesson. When we stop looking for external bandaids for the problems we face that fill us with fear, we begin to find answers inside. It's not so much that we need money (external), it is much more that we need to release the fear-based thoughts that hold us back from receiving the manifold abundance of the Universe (internal). The need for money is a huge fear, but there is a valuable lesson behind it. You can say "drop the fear" all you want, but it's there for a reason, asking you to learn the lesson.

Today - look for the other side of your fears. If you are fearful that you will never find love, look for what it is inside you that is creating the barrier betwen you and love. If you are fearful of anything - it's an incredible opportunity to look at the other side - your own part in it - and then seek to release from that perspective.

Blessings.
- Darshan

© 2009 Darshan F Jessop