Welcoming And Liberating Fear

For your support in these challenging times, Loch invites you to find your essential loving nature, which can welcome and liberate fear, with this powerful guided meditation. This is an advanced meditation practice that can bring great relief. However, it is not recommended for those who are currently feeling panic or in a state of extreme fear.

Transcript

Welcome everyone.

I'm Locke Kelly and I wanted to share with you today a meditation that I call Awakening Emotions.

So many of us may feel some fear at this time in our life and so let's work with that emotion.

Fear is a natural emotion.

It's just a matter of who or what is it arising to.

Is it taking us over?

Is it leading us into triggering a traumatic part of us that we identify with and then affects our physical body and our emotional body and our identity?

Or can we shift into a larger view and a more spacious you that's embodied and interconnected and able to allow the emotion to appear to your open-hearted awareness.

So let's begin with doing these 30 second shifts of relationship to the emotion of fear.

So just find a comfortable way of sitting.

Allow yourself to settle in and be taking a little deeper breath into your belly,

Your ribcage to expand,

Breathing fully and then breathing out a little slower.

And then just one more time as you settle in just allow your body to take a good full breath and as you breathe out just let go and sigh.

Just being here now with whatever's here just as it is.

And so now I'll just ask you eyes open or closed to say this silently to yourself and feel this for 20 to 30 seconds.

I am afraid.

You just feel what this is like when you're identified and feeling I am afraid.

And then having felt this even for one second fully just make a slight shift and notice what it feels like.

I feel fear.

I feel fear.

And just so you notice what it's like to shift from I am afraid to I feel fear.

And now shift again to I am aware of feeling fear.

I am aware of feeling fear.

Just fully feeling this shift in relationship to fear for a few seconds.

And now shifting again as this awareness feel and say silently to yourself.

Fear is welcome.

As this awareness,

Fear is welcome.

Just feeling the difference,

The relationship.

And then shifting again.

Awareness and fear are not separate.

Awareness and fear are not separate.

And just noticing this feeling of the ocean of awareness arising as your body and feeling interconnected to everybody and everything.

Awareness that has this aliveness of feeling and emotion and human experience has greater capacity feeling this view from open-hearted awareness that welcomes embraces is not separate but is more spacious and pervasive a sense of a view from the open-heartedness toward your parts that may feel afraid toward everyone or anyone that may feel afraid in the world.

Just noticing how you feel from this sense of open-hearted awareness this new view and this new location of you that can be with whatever arises and begin to return home any time of the day with these small glimpse practices.

So I wish you all the best and enjoy.

Reviews

I’ve been fighting so much fear recently that feeling it overwhelmed me to tears. I forgot that courage isn’t the absence of fear, but the strength to do hard things regardless.

Really great help! Thank you for these practices!

Thank you Loch!

These help me so much! Very practical

Simple, straightforward, profound. A great reminder and incredibly effective 7 minute break I’ll use again and again when I’m caught up.

Wow! Powerful impact in a short meditation. Profound. Thank you!

Wonderful that a teacher is offering practices for working with the emotion of fear, and showing how our language and relationship to it changes how we experience it. Do this meditation; there's wisdom to be gained from it.

Beautiful shift 🙏💖✨

Thank you for this offering, the practice really resonated with me🙏

Very helpful

Loch Kelley is amazing.

Thank you

Really helpful, thank you ❤️

Very helpful. Thank you.

Extraordinary. I’m in the middle of a Coronavirus shelter at home order. I live alone. I worry. I am afraid. This helped. Thank you.

thank you and namaste

Thank you! 🙏😊 🇲🇽

This ‘small glimpse practice’ is very powerful and now on my favourite list. Thanks!

Thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽