Let's Celebrate The Fear - It Is A Good Sign

As we are moving along the Path to Freedom, we are bound to bump into fear. Now, for the most part, fear is only an egoic projection based on a story of doom and gloom or worst-case scenarios. And so if we want to set ourselves free we need to find a way to overcome the fear. To not let it stop or control us. I invite you to join me as we take a deep dive into understanding the fear and how we can go beyond it.

Transcript

Blessings and welcome to the path to freedom,

This beautiful path where we get to set ourselves free to soar,

To shine,

To glow,

Where we get to set ourselves free to forever love for greater and grander expressions of who and what we are,

Where we get to set ourselves free to be in that ever-expanding love and joys and peace and harmony and wholeness and beauty and abundance and all of these wonderful divine qualities that are the truth and essence of who and what we are,

So they are never outside of us,

But they are always within each and every single one of us,

And as we set ourselves free,

As we release and let go of that which is obscuring,

That which is covering it up,

That which is keeping us from being in touch with this essence of who and what we are,

As we release and let these go,

The small delimited thought patterns,

Judgments,

Opinions,

Points of view,

Thoughts as to what should and should not be,

Fears,

Worries and doubts,

Stories,

Beliefs,

We reveal and we give permission for that which we are to well up from within,

To emerge from within,

Just like everything and anything in nature that emerges from within,

Like any seed,

A plant,

A rose seed or sunflower seed or tomato seed or whatever kind of seed,

In the ground,

In the soil,

And the plant emerges from within that seed,

So in the very same sense,

These beautiful qualities,

They emerge from within us as we do this inner work of becoming aware of embracing and allowing,

Of releasing,

Letting go,

That which no longer serves.

So that was a long introduction,

But this is what it is about,

This is about us expanding our consciousness,

Raising our vibration over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again,

And it just keeps on going,

Because this is an eternal journey that we are on,

It never stops,

It never stops.

So my name is Daniel Roqueo and as always I'm very grateful that you are choosing to join me,

That you're choosing to tune into this space,

That you're choosing to set yourself free.

The topic for today is,

It has to do with fear,

And it has to do with seeing,

Acknowledging fear for what it is,

And let me see if I can remember the topic.

The topic is,

Let's celebrate the fear,

It is a good sign.

Let's celebrate the fear,

It is a good sign.

And this has to do,

Obviously,

This is as much for me as it is for anyone of you tuning in as I am moving through,

And so we are on this path,

Where we are invited,

Where we are called to over and over again release and let go of that which no longer serves.

So at the end of last year,

I became aware that I needed to sort of step up my game,

That I needed to rearrange my life,

That I needed to make new priorities.

One of my supreme intentions has been for a long,

Long time,

Has been to live a simple,

Peaceful and quiet life.

Another one of my intentions has been to be a greater teacher and healer than I've ever imagined,

And that intention,

Along with the intention for me to wake up to who and what I am,

Along with the intention,

I've got four,

And along with my intention to forever allow for greater and grander expressions of who and what I am to emerge.

Those three,

Me being a greater teacher and healer,

Me waking up,

Me allowing for the next iteration of who and what I am to well up,

Those have been at the forefront of my life for a number of years.

And the last one,

To live a simple and peaceful and quiet life,

And what I've added to that lately,

Actually since last year,

Is to live unbound by time and place.

So I became aware at the end of last year that as I am fully stepping into being that greater teacher and healer than I've ever imagined,

That I was reaching a limit to how much I can be of service.

As my calendar filled up and I had all these downloads,

I caught all these new ways of being of service,

But there was really no time for me to step into that and to allow for these to emerge.

And so I realized that I was beginning to stuff my days,

I was beginning to put so much on my plate that I began to experience exhaustion,

I began to experience,

I would wake up in the morning being dead tired and the day hadn't even started yet,

Right?

And so at the end of last year,

I decided to make my fourth supreme intention,

My number one supreme intention,

To live this simple,

Peaceful and quiet life,

And to live it unbound by time and place,

Which means and which meant that I needed to begin to slow down.

Instead of speeding up to fit more things into my calendar,

I needed to start removing things.

I needed to scale down and begin to free my calendar,

Not add more to it,

But actually delete things from my calendar and so to free up time,

So to give myself the space to move into the expansion.

And so all of this year has been me,

And I realized that for this to happen,

I need to choose it.

And for this to happen,

I need to be it.

I can't wait.

I cannot just sit around and wait for my calendar to free up,

But I need to make the choice to do it.

So pretty much what has happened this year has been me releasing my old habits of trying to make the most out of every single moment,

Because that's how I've been living my life these last years,

Just trying to fit so much.

I mean,

There's only 24 hours on each day,

Right?

And I had so much that I wanted to do,

And I had so much that I felt called to do,

And I had so much that I felt I needed to do.

So I did whatever I could to manipulate time to get as much done on any given day as possible.

So that became a habit,

Right?

And so this year I've been scaling down,

And this year I have been moving into and allowing cultivating a new habit,

Which is to take days off,

Which is to work half days,

Which is to slow down in a way that I have not done in many,

Many years.

It has taken quite some time,

Really,

To.

.

.

The old habitual thought forms and patterns,

They absolutely lingered,

And they're still here to some extent.

I am still aware of them.

But it took really a couple of months for me to really enjoy taking my days off,

Because whenever I would take a day off,

I became stressed.

I was experiencing stress,

And I was experiencing impatience,

And I was experiencing a lot of negativity.

It was not joyful for me,

It was not relaxing for me to take days off,

But it was stressful.

And just a few days ago was actually the first day,

And I'm getting to the fear part.

I'm getting to the fear part.

Just a few days ago was actually the first day that I really enjoyed taking the afternoon off.

Our son was home from school,

And we were out for a walk,

And as we were walking back to our house,

He asked if we could,

When we got back,

If we could just hang out.

And I was surprised,

And that's usually how it is.

I mean,

We hang out a lot.

We hang out a lot,

Me and my son.

So it's all beautiful.

But every time that we have hung out in the past,

It's always been that I need to choose hanging out with him over doing work,

Or over being creative,

Or over achieving,

Or producing,

Or whatever the story was.

But a few days ago,

To my surprise,

I was actually enjoying saying yes to him.

It was just pure joy.

I was looking forward to getting back to the house and just hanging out with him,

Even though there were like four or five hours left of the working day.

So that was progress,

That was a sign of expansion.

Lo and behold,

A few days later,

As it is with the ego,

And this is where the fear part comes in,

As it is with the ego,

The ego seeks to keep us stuck where we are.

It seeks to keep us safe from the unknown,

And as we are on a path where we continuously venture into the unknown,

One of the ways that the ego seeks to keep us where we are is through projecting fear into our experience.

So the enjoyment lasted for a full day and a little bit more,

And then a few days later,

The fear hit.

I mean,

A magnitude of fear that I had not experienced in a long,

Long,

Long,

Long time.

And all these stories about financial circulation,

And if I scale down,

If I stop seeing clients,

If I stop doing this or that,

And if I just go ahead and take the days off,

How many,

How am I ever going to support my family?

How am I ever going to make sure that,

You know,

All these stories around lack and scarcity,

A tremendous amount of fear that I couldn't release it for a number of days.

And it was such a beautiful experience.

I was fully and completely aware of the fear,

I was fully and completely experiencing the fear,

I was not attached to it,

I immediately recognized it for what it was,

That this is the ego just keeping me from moving into the unknown.

This is the ego seeking to keep me safe in the known,

Where I just continue to trade my time for money,

Right?

And as I'm now choosing something different,

And as I'm now saying yes to something different,

It means that I need to say no to that which used to be,

That which used to be no longer serves.

So I need to say no to it,

I need to say yes to something different.

And this is where the fear comes in.

Whenever we say yes to something different,

And the bigger the difference is,

The greater the fear or the worry or the doubt or the anxiety hits,

Right?

And while it is very normal for us humans to just run with the fear,

We become aware of it and we take it at face value,

We believe that the fear is valid.

We believe that the fear is something,

It can be,

I mean,

The still small voice is always keeping us safe,

Not in the way that the ego is doing.

So there are most certainly moments when we are wise to listen to that still small voice,

Perhaps urging us to take another way home or not moving in a particular direction or move in a particular direction.

But the feeling tone underneath that still small voice being protective of us and the ego seeking to keep us where we are,

The feeling tone is enormously different.

This was very,

Very intense.

It had nothing to do with anything,

It was just stories about lack and limitation and stories about doom and gloom that was just percolating in my mind.

And the beauty of this is that when this fear arises,

It is such a beautiful sign that we are actually on the verge of expansion.

So rather than just running with the fear,

Rather than giving the fear power to run us,

As we've been talking about before,

We do not want to move from fear,

But we want to move in spite of fear.

We want to keep moving in the direction that we are moving,

The direction that we're inspired to move,

Compelled to move,

Guided to move,

Even in the midst of fear.

So the fear is just letting us know that we are about to break free,

That we are about to shatter an old paradigm,

That we are about to shatter an old narrative that we have been buying into,

That we have been hijacked by,

That we have been living by for a long,

Long time.

So the fear is something to celebrate.

And as this spiritual,

Mental,

Emotional healing happens,

We first become aware of,

In this case,

The fear.

So we become aware of it.

There's no need for us to deny it.

There's no need for us to resist it.

There's no need for us to bury it or run away from it.

But being aware of it,

Embracing and allowing it to be,

Just being with it,

Sitting with it,

Walking with it.

Like my day,

I just kept on doing what I was doing.

And I actually took another day off just to prove a point,

Just to prove that I was trusting this benevolent presence,

This loving presence that is always for itself.

I was trusting it more than I was trusting the fear,

More than I was trusting the ego.

So I took another day off and I didn't enjoy being in the fear.

I mean,

The feeling tone of fear,

It's not enjoyable.

It's not comfortable.

It was very discomforting being in this space.

And it lasts for a number of days,

Two or three days or something like that.

But I kept doing.

I kept moving in the direction that I had chosen.

I kept saying yes to and honor this intention of mine to live this simple,

Peaceful and quiet life and unbound by time and place.

So I kept doing what I was being called to do.

I kept doing what I was feeling inspired to do.

Being with the fear,

So my productivity level was not as high as before.

I made it a huge point to be very loving and kind towards myself in this space,

To be very tender,

To be very compassionate,

To be very forgiving of myself and towards myself.

So kind of like a small child that is learning to walk,

How we would embrace that and we would encourage it and we would,

You know,

Shout words of encouragement whenever it stands up and takes those first sort of wobbly steps.

We're not criticizing it,

We're not demanding more of it,

But we're just being very loving and kind and compassionate,

Encouraging that it is taking these wobbly steps at all.

Because just a few days ago,

It wasn't taking these steps at all.

It was just sitting there and that's no judgment,

But you know.

So we always want to be loving and kind towards ourselves.

We always want to love ourselves up.

But be with it,

Embrace and allow it,

Witness and observe it.

What are the stories?

What are the beliefs?

What is the narrative underneath the fear?

And in my case,

It was,

We're not going to be able to pay our bills.

We're not going to be able to sustain the lifestyle that we have.

And we're actually planning a big move.

So I mean,

All these stories about lack,

Scarcity,

About separation,

I was just being with it,

Observing them,

Witnessing them.

And I kept choosing,

I kept saying yes to that,

Which is in alignment with what I wish to experience.

And what I wish to experience is a greater sense of freedom from time,

A greater sense of freedom from time and place.

That is what I'm saying yes to.

So that I may be of greater service,

So that I may up-level my service.

So that's what I'm saying yes.

And I just kept saying yes to that.

I was not moving as fast as perhaps I would have preferred,

Another judgment that I got to become aware of.

But I was moving,

I was still moving in the direction of my intention.

I was still saying yes to it,

I was still honoring it.

So the fear is such a beautiful,

It is a gift.

Letting us know,

It is a blessing,

Letting us know,

Informing us that we are shattering,

We are absolutely growing,

We are absolutely expanding,

We are absolutely allowing for that next great and grand version of who we are.

There is no growth without fear.

Because as long as the ego feels safe,

There is no reason for it to project fear.

So as long as we stay the same,

As long as we remain who we are,

Who we've perhaps been for decades,

Making the same old choices that we've been making for years and years and years and years and years,

There's no reason for the ego to keep us in check.

There's no reason for the ego to bombard us with this fear and anxiety and worry and doubt.

But when we step out of that,

When we step outside of the comfort zones,

When we begin to move into the unknown,

That's when the fear hits.

And we need to keep moving through it.

We need to become aware of it,

Listen to it,

Embrace it,

Allow it,

Celebrate it even,

But not choose from it,

Not give it the power to run us,

But to choose in spite of fear,

To move in spite of fear,

To keep saying yes to our visions and intentions and all of that.

So fear is absolutely,

With all its discomfort,

With all its unpleasantness,

With all the messiness,

Fear is such a beautiful telltale sign that we are on path,

That we are moving beyond who we currently are,

That we are allowing for something new to emerge.

So fear is something to be celebrated,

It is something to rejoice over,

It is something to,

Well,

Look forward to,

It might be a stretch,

But we get to enjoy it in a sense,

We get to enjoy it in a sense.

So the invitation for us today is to look at our lives and become aware,

Seek to become aware of where we are letting fear run us,

Where are we letting fear stop us.

So to become aware of that first,

To become aware of the fear or the worry or the doubt or the anxiety,

And then the second part of the invitation is for us to become aware of the stories,

The beliefs,

The narratives,

The judgments underneath the fear,

So that we can shatter these,

So that we can free ourselves from being shackled by these.

So to set us free,

Because this is about us setting ourselves free,

And the question can be this choice that I'm about to make,

Or this choice that I just made,

Is it in alignment with what I wish to experience?

That's a question that just keeps coming back and it is such a profound question,

It's such a powerful question.

So this choice that I just made,

This choice that I'm about to make,

Is it in alignment with what I wish to experience?

If it isn't,

Then we get to make another choice,

A higher choice that is in alignment with what we wish to experience.

If it is,

Beautiful,

Awesome,

Magnificent,

Keep on going,

We just keep moving forward.

So that was it for today,

Thank you so so much for tuning in,

For joining me,

For doing this work,

For shattering who you used to be,

For releasing and letting go,

For letting it die,

So that something new,

Greater,

Grander may emerge from within.

I absolutely bless,

Bless,

Bless our days,

And I absolutely bless,

Bless,

Bless our ways,

And if you feel inspired to,

Please share this with anyone,

Everyone,

That you feel my benefit from hearing this,

Until we meet again,

I know absolutely that all is well,

I know absolutely that something wonderful is happening,

I know absolutely that everything is working for our highest good,

And I know absolutely that perfect preparation and that perfect unfolding is always happening.

With much love,

Many blessings,

Namaste.

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