Inner Shift From Fear To Love

This session is dedicated to exploring one's fear, confronting it, and discovering the way out towards love. I share the following meditation techniques during the session: Last Breath Imagination, Focus on Swadhistana Chakra, and Focus on Anahata Chakra.

I hope you can find time to meditate along.
Love,
Dhyanse

Transcript

Hi,

This is Dhyans here and you'll be tuning into a unique meditation session recorded live with my meditators in Switzerland,

Where for the first 15 minutes you'll listen to the theme of the session which will bring your mind,

Your heart and your energies together into a meditative state.

Then I'll guide you to go deep in a 30-minute meditation experience.

I wish you all the love,

Peace,

Happiness and awareness in life.

A very warm welcome to all of you in this Monday evening meditation session with me Dhyansai.

Meditation is a journey of knowing oneself,

Of going in every nook and corner of oneself and really finding out everything about oneself,

Who we are,

How we act and see that act during our daily lives.

For today's session I would like to go into a topic which is usually avoided,

Put in a closet and never really looked at.

Fear.

We all know how it feels.

We all have felt fear.

But what is really fear?

And how do we meditate upon fear?

What does it bring to meditate upon fear?

The session is dedicated to exploring one's own depths and the hidden fear in our own depths and finding out and confronting it and understanding it and in a way overcoming it.

Before we go into the session,

Before we go into the meditation,

I would like you to close your eyes for a few minutes and just ask yourself what is fear?

What does fear mean to you?

Yes?

It means that it's like alone,

Strong feeling.

It's a strong feeling?

For me it's to get hurt somehow.

To get hurt.

What else?

Yes?

The feeling of unknown,

Probable danger.

The feeling of unknown danger,

The improbable.

Yes?

The heartbeat that goes along with the fear.

Yes?

Fear of losing someone or something.

Anyone else?

Yes?

The fear of having no control.

And when I look exactly behind that,

There's another one that I might survive for a while,

Which is that I do not live up to what I was supposed to do in my life.

The fear of not meeting your purpose.

Anything else?

Rejection.

Rejection.

Rejection.

All these faces of fear.

But what is this feeling?

We are very close.

We already said that sense of aloneness,

That sense of unknown,

That sense of something not achieving something,

Not reaching there.

What is this feeling if you remove the object of fear,

But just the feeling,

This intense feeling,

What is this?

You know,

If you open up psychology books,

They say fear is an essential component of our survival and blah,

Blah,

Blah,

Because fear helps us our survival.

If there was no fear,

We would not be alive.

Fine.

Here,

We are not talking about survival.

I think all of us are able to survive wherever we are in our life.

But still there is fear.

Yes.

It's more about future.

It's more about future.

So the unknown,

What has not happened yet,

And you don't know what is going to come with it.

All of this is all rooted in our different faces of fear.

What I would like to share with you is in my meditation,

When I confronted fear,

When I look into fear,

What is fear and what is this whole drama that goes on inside?

From my view,

What I can share is there are two root forces in us,

Two root forces.

One is love.

The force of love,

The energy of love,

The feeling of love.

We all know that.

When we are empowered by love,

Nothing matters.

No sense of not being able to achieve,

No purpose,

No sense of the unknown,

No sense of future,

Nothing.

You are only rejoicing,

Enjoying in ecstasy of love.

We all know that.

We all have that feeling and we all know this root force of love in us.

It's there sometimes and sometimes it's not there.

When it's there,

Everything is all right.

You don't even need to come here and meditate.

You're just enjoying your loving moments and the feeling of love.

But the problem starts when this feeling of love,

When this root force of love is not there and it's also okay for it to not be there.

Then comes the void,

The emptiness.

And this void,

This emptiness,

When the root force of love is not there,

The emptiness,

The void that is there,

We don't know how to deal with it.

And this is something we're never taught how to deal with this empty void,

Which is unknown,

Which has no shape,

No name,

Nothing.

And there is no grasp over it.

When we touch this empty unknown void,

Suddenly we want to somehow deal with it.

And comes in the second root force,

Which is fear.

And it starts creating its derivatives to somehow fill this void,

Somehow fill this emptiness.

The first thing this fear,

The root force of fear does is to give you an identity,

To give you an ego,

The ahankara,

Where you suddenly hold,

You have something to hold on to.

You have something more predictable,

Something more like an object,

Which you can hold on to and say,

I am,

I am this,

I am that.

Ahankara,

The ego.

That's the first derivative of fear,

What it triggers and what it empowers,

What it gives all the energy to,

To the ahankara.

The second is desires,

Your karma.

Karma is the energy that we,

You can think of it like this,

The life energy that you have,

If this is converted into desires,

That becomes karma.

Desires of sex,

Of fame,

Of power,

All these desires are nothing but substitutes to fill that emptiness.

The more the emptiness,

The more the desire to fill,

The more the fear,

The more the desire to fill this emptiness with achievement,

With success,

With wanting to win,

With wanting to have more power,

More fame,

More sex and so on.

The people who are the most successful,

They are the most fearful.

If you look into their hearts,

How fearful they are,

They will never tell you.

Of course,

They have learned ways to put a mask,

But if you open their heart,

Is only fear.

When this fear is empowering this ego and this desire,

It also gives the attachment,

The moha,

To in order to hold this,

In order to have this as long as you can,

It also gives you the greed to hold and to have more of it so that you could fill this emptiness,

You could fill this void with more and more as if it is going to substitute,

If it's going to fulfill this emptiness,

This void.

And what happens is it never fills.

You keep on having more greed and you want to fill more of it,

But it is never filled.

Even this fear also empowers anger.

I don't know if you would be surprised if I say behind anger is fear.

Whenever you are angry,

Why are you angry?

You're angry because you don't want something to be lost.

You don't want things to happen,

Not the way you want them to happen.

There is a sense of misalignment to your worldview,

To how things should be and how things are or how things are happening and manifesting.

That brings anger.

What is that?

It's the fear in the background running.

You cannot control the anger.

Those who say manage this anger by doing this or that are just giving you patchwork.

You cannot manage the anger unless you understand the root of it,

Which is fear.

I'm not saying fear is bad.

It has its own place in our life.

I'm just saying identify this in your life.

Throughout your life,

In your daily activities,

Try to see,

Am I operating out of love?

Am I operating out of this fear?

Just to understand where you're lying and where you are in your inner operations.

How does meditation come into play?

Meditation is a process which allows us to be with this emptiness.

It teaches us how can we be at peace with this emptiness,

With this void.

When there is love,

Enjoy the love.

When there is no love,

Be in the emptiness in your being situated without having the need to necessarily fill it with fear.

And if for some reason there is fear,

Also see it.

Also see the root cause of it.

When you see it,

Then you can also cut down the obsession of it,

Cut down what it is bringing into your life and making you,

Driving you crazy,

Going here and there.

How we are going to do this meditation?

We are going to do this in four steps.

The first step is more of an imagination.

It's more of an imagination to take us to the ultimate fear that we have,

Which is of death.

We will imagine as if every breath that we're taking is the last breath.

Every breath that we're taking is the last breath.

We inhale and when we exhale,

It's the last breath.

Not waiting for the next breath to come,

Not expecting the next breath to come.

If it comes,

It comes.

If it doesn't come,

It doesn't come.

Breathe as if it is your last breath.

In this process,

You will see all these shades of fears,

All these faces of fears may be arising,

May not be arising,

But you will have an opportunity to put them aside because it's your last breath afterwards.

Where is the greed?

Where is the anger?

Where is the ego?

Where is any sense of purpose?

It's the last breath.

There's nothing afterwards.

There is an opportunity just in this imagination to go beyond all these derivatives of fear.

That's step number one.

Step number two,

We will focus on the navel center,

Which is swadhishthana,

Energy chakra,

Two inches below the navel.

When you feel really intensely fearful,

Where is the feeling coming from?

Where is in the physical body,

You feel it in your navel.

You feel it in your swadhishthana chakra,

In your navel center.

This is also known as the hara center and here our life energies are situated and when you are in fear,

This is what,

Where the trembling is happening.

As a second step,

We will put this to rest.

We'll bring our focus to the hara center,

To the navel center and just let it relax.

Let it rest.

Let all this inner trembling come to rest.

As a third step,

We'll move to the heart center,

To the anahata chakra,

Which is just the region in between the chest,

In between the breasts.

Here if you focus your energies,

It's very peaceful.

It's very,

A sense of love is there in this region of your physical body and when you bring your awareness to the heart center,

You can tune back to the sense of love.

If it's there,

If it's not there,

A sense of peace,

A sense of calm,

A sense of centeredness.

And when you have spent enough time into that,

When your body is calm,

When your mind is calm and there is less of inner trembling,

There's less of fear,

You will remain silent as the fourth step.

Rejoice in silence.

Remain aware of yourself without focusing anywhere in particular,

Without focusing on your thoughts,

On the noises outside or any parts of your body.

Just remain aware and remain silent.

Four steps.

I'll guide you throughout these four steps during the meditation.

One request I have,

We as a group create tremendous energy together while sitting here.

If one of us disturbs it,

It's disturbed for everyone.

So please sit with an intention,

At least an intention to not disturb the energy,

Rather amplify this silence that we create for us.

If you feel like you must move,

There is pain in your body,

Do it as quietly as possible that no one is disturbed and we all can maintain the silence for the next 20 to 30 minutes.

With that,

I invite you to close your eyes.

If someone needs to move their body,

Find a comfortable sitting posture for yourself.

Shoulders down,

Back straight,

Head relaxed,

Face relaxed.

Let the breath flow naturally in and out.

For the next minutes,

Breathe as if every breath is your last breath.

All your awareness on your breath and just this intention,

This feeling,

This feeling,

This feeling,

Every breath as your last breath.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Maintain this feeling that this is your last breath.

Let go of everything that wants to be dropped from your breath.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Every breath is the last breath.

Let go in it.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Now shift your awareness to the navel center,

To the region two inches below your navel.

And feel all the sensations at your navel center.

As you take your last breath in,

Let the breath flow naturally.

Your last breath,

Allow your navel center to rest,

To stabilize,

To strengthen.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Remain aware of your navel center and allow it to rest,

To calm down.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Move deeper into emptiness.

As you rest your navel center,

And breathe in and out naturally.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Let go more and more and remain aware of your navel center.

Let the breath flow naturally.

Go deeper.

Go deeper.

Let it settle on its own.

A sense of peace,

Settlement arises in you.

Shift your awareness to your heart region,

In between your breaths,

And remain aware of this heart center.

Awareness in the middle of your chest.

And stay there.

A subtle sense of silence,

Peace,

Love in your heart region.

Allow yourself to go deep in it.

Let it settle.

Maintain this awareness at your heart center,

Effortlessly,

Restfully.

Let it settle.

Let it settle.

Stay like this.

Awareness at your heart center.

Go deeper into the silence.

Let yourself go.

Now just remain silent and aware for the next minutes.

No focus in particular,

Allow yourself to go in silence with awareness.

Let it settle.

Stay like this.

Absolutely silent and aware.

Let it settle.

In this moment,

There is no fear.

There is silence,

Awareness,

Emptiness.

Let it settle.

Let go of your thoughts.

Stay silent.

In this moment,

Nowhere to go.

In this moment,

Nothing to do.

In this moment,

Just be.

Notice your breath.

Notice a sense of centeredness.

Silence back to your body.

And maintaining this inner silence and awareness,

You may open your eyes or keep them closed for another few minutes.

Reviews

Thank you🙏 You are missed.💕

Truly powerful and a beautiful practice to start the year with. Thank you, Dhyanse 🙏