Face Your Fear To Follow Your Dreams

This guided meditation helps you confront your fears, transform them, and step into a space of courage and possibility. You’ll begin by grounding yourself through deep breathing and a mindful body scan to release tension and invite relaxation. As you connect with your inner self, you will visualize pulling fears from your body and placing them outside of yourself, creating space to understand and transform them.

Transcript

Take a soft breath in.

Let yourself get comfortable in the space whether you're seated or lying down.

Take a moment to connect to your body.

The parts of your body that are touching the ground.

Allow yourself to feel the sense of anchoredness in the space.

Scan your body from the top of your head all the way down to your toes.

Watching the part of your body that feels constricted,

Feels tense,

Feels stiff.

And now notice the parts of your body that feels soft,

That feels relaxed.

Or at least more relaxed or softer.

Focus on one part of the body that feels soft or softer.

And allowing that softness grow to the surrounding areas,

To other body parts.

And allowing the softness to become a reference point for your mind.

To invite a sense of softness to the parts of your body that might feel tense,

Uncomfortable.

Allowing the softness to move up towards your head and move down towards your feet.

And with every breath in,

Invite more softness and let go of tension.

Soon we will start some breathing practice.

To get out of the analytical mind and tap into our body and the present moment a little bit deeper before we start working on our fears.

And we start breathing from your pelvic floor all the way up to right underneath your neck.

And hold the breath on the top.

Invite a little bit of a squeeze to the pelvic floor and to belly.

And hold that breath for a couple of seconds.

Allowing the energy of survival turn into creativity,

Presence,

Awareness.

And slowly let it out.

Take another breath in from the base of your pelvic floor all the way up.

Fill up your whole torso.

Squeeze the pelvic floor muscle.

Inviting the energy of moving from surviving to thriving.

Moving from the place of fear to the place of love.

And exhale out.

Every time you exhale,

You can return to normal breath.

So take another big breath in from the base of your pelvic floor all the way up to right underneath your clavicle,

Right underneath your neck.

Hold the breath.

Squeeze the pelvic floor muscles.

Squeeze the belly.

And hold that breath for a couple of seconds.

Hold the breath.

Squeeze the pelvic floor muscles.

Squeeze the belly.

Moving from surviving to thriving.

Giving yourself permission to go to a new edge with this breath hold.

You're more than welcome to let it go at any time that is impossible to hold.

Yet I want to invite you to give yourself permission to go to a new edge with your breath.

And now slowly let it out.

Take another big breath.

Hold it on the top.

Squeeze the pelvic floor muscles.

Squeeze the belly.

And slowly moving the energy around in your physical body.

Keep holding it on the top.

Becoming an alchemist to turn the energy of survival into the energy of expansion,

Creativity.

Keep holding it for a couple more seconds here.

Explore new edges with your body,

With your mind,

With your life.

And slowly let it out.

Sit in the stillness here.

Reconnect to your body and any sensation that is present from the breathing practice we've done.

Now tap into the reason that you came here to this practice today.

Facing your fears,

Seeing them,

Understanding them.

I want you to reconnect with the sensation of the fear that lives within you.

Where does it live in your body?

Where is it?

Where does it live in your mind?

Where does it live in your body?

Where does it live in your body?

Where is it?

How does the sensation feel like in the body?

If you were to fight,

If you were to soften and understand,

If you were to step into this practice with curiosity,

Where does the fear live or fears live?

How does the sensation feel like in your body?

Is it all in one place or are they in multiple places?

Now quietly,

I want you to name your fear or your fears and slowly pull them out of your physical body,

In your imagination,

And bring them out of your physical body and put them right around you in the form of a dark cloud.

Pull another fear out,

Bring it out of your body in the form of a dark cloud.

It can be the same fear with different storylines,

With different dynamic,

With different texture,

Or it could be different fear altogether.

That's okay.

Continue acknowledging them,

Naming them,

And pull them out.

And feeling this cloud,

This dark cloud around you beginning to grow every time you're pulling out another fear,

You're pulling out another fear.

Name them,

Acknowledge them,

And pull them out of your physical body.

We're not doing this practice to bulldoze through our feelings,

Through our feelings,

Our fears,

Our doubts.

We're creating a container for you to get intimate with your fears,

Understand them.

Instead of fighting them,

Create space and allow them to come out.

What other fears that you want to look at and pull out of your physical body?

Is there any deeper layer to this fear?

Can you look deeper in your body?

I'm going to try one more time,

Any other things that you want to pull out,

Any other fear that you want to pull out of your physical body?

Now look around you,

The clouds of darkness.

Have another glance at every single one of them.

And the feelings and the associations and the dynamic and the sensations they created in your being.

Thank every single one of them because they all serve a purpose.

They're here to keep you safe.

Thank every single one of them for being here to protect you.

What is waiting for you on the outside of the dark clouds?

Are you committed to your inner being?

Are you committed to having your fears be right?

Or are you willing to fully step out the door and walk?

As you're slowly beginning to walk,

You see your little self waiting for you.

The little self,

It can be any age,

Whatever age that you feel more drawn to at this moment.

Perhaps wave,

Feel their presence.

Let yourself get intimate.

Maybe hold your younger version.

Maybe give them some love.

Thank them for coming in to the space,

For being willing to interact with you.

Maybe you sit on the edge of the dark clouds.

Maybe you sit on the ground with them,

Holding their hands and asking,

What do they need from you?

What do they need from you?

Where are you meant to go?

Who are you meant to be outside of the edge of your fears?

Let yourself receive the message that comes through.

Receive the message so deeply that it touches your heart,

It touches your body.

Hold your hands.

Thank your inner self,

Your little self,

For showing up,

For sharing.

Maybe a kiss on the cheek,

Maybe a warm hug.

Tell them you'll be back.

Sit there for a moment,

Feeling their presence.

Feeling the feelings that are coming up for you.

Feeling it at a cellular level,

Connecting to who you're becoming on the outside of the edge of your fears.

Putting your hands on your heart as if you're letting that sink into the depth of your heart so you remember this image,

You remember this experience.

So next time that you feel the fear,

You return to this image.

You return to your inner self.

You return to this image.

You return to the sensation that this image created in your body.

Take another soft breath in,

This time fill up your whole body.

Feeling the expansion,

Feeling the trust.

Exhale out,

And on the exhale,

Let go of the room that you're in.

Return back to the sensation of the ground beneath you.

And whenever you're ready,

Bring gentle motion into your fingertips,

Into your toes.

And slowly come out whenever you're ready.

There is no rush.

Just take your time.