Welcoming Fear Teaching
by Chelsea
This is meant to be listened to in tandem with the Welcoming Fear Guided Meditation found on my profile. In this short teaching before our meditation, we'll explore how fear hones our senses and enhances our ability to respond to threats. It makes us focused, centered, capable, and agile. This series focuses on what we might typically see as our “harder” or less acceptable emotions. Many of us have learned to push away these less desirable emotions based on a variety of reasons, perhaps religious, cultural, or social. Yet we know that it’s not healthy for us to repress emotions, and our meditation practice helps us create space for what is present within ourselves, even if it’s hard to face. We want to learn to understand our emotions better, what they’re trying to tell us, and identify how they show up in our bodies so that we can then work with our emotions and use the gifts they bring us instead of fighting against them.
