Hello friends,
This is Morgan.
How's your fear?
What is fear?
I've heard it described as the acronym false evidence appearing real.
Fear lives in the future in the same way that anger lives in the past.
And fear is a beautiful protection.
Your brain,
Your nervous system developed in a way that it wanted you to stay alive and it knew that by predicting the worst case scenario,
You would be more likely to live,
To survive.
So I know that fear can be a really overwhelming emotion,
But I want to start with this place of gratitude,
Of being really thankful for this deep evolutionary response to the reality that it can often feel that we live in a dangerous world.
And how grateful to have such wisdom that we can come up with all the ways things can go sideways,
All the ways we can get physically hurt,
All the ways we can get emotionally hurt.
Thank you.
Thank you for wanting to protect me.
I want you to think of something that brings up fear.
And it can just be the first thing that comes up or you can start with something small.
I work with a lot of people who have fear around their vulnerability.
When we first start working together,
My clients often assume that any delicate information they put out about themselves,
Anything that exposes some of their darkness,
Can be used against them.
I don't know if that's possible.
I think it can feel that way sometimes when we have information that we want to protect,
When we have a feeling we're not ready to share.
But I don't know if it's possible to become more hurt by sharing your hurt.
Usually it's the opposite.
Usually by sharing from that space of pain,
That space of vulnerability,
That space of growth,
It lessens the emotional sensation of the experience.
It's like spreading peanut butter on toast rather than keeping it all balled up on one end.
Do you remember when you were a kid,
How fun it was to show off your boo-boos,
Your scars,
Or when your teeth fell out and your adult teeth were growing in?
Didn't you just rush to school to tell all your friends?
All these moments of growth that were so curious and so bizarre,
Bones falling out of your head.
By sharing the experience with each other,
It made these transformations,
These transitions easier because we were all going through it.
And it's the same when you share from your space of vulnerability.
You get to build compassion.
You get to connect with someone maybe who's gone through the same thing or someone who's about to go through the same thing and can learn from your experience.
You can make it easier for them by sharing,
Just like sometimes it's a little easier for you when you hear from someone else who's gone through a similar painful situation.
I also do a lot of work around the fear of information.
If you pay attention to the news,
The media,
Social media,
It can be very easy,
Especially in an election year,
To focus on how awful things are and how scared we should all be because it's very easy to control people when they are full of fear.
We will do anything to escape the sensation of fear.
And that's why we have to be grateful for it so that we can experience it,
Process it and recognize that the things that we are afraid of are not actually happening in any sense of reality right now to you.
When someone tries to give you fear,
Something to be afraid of,
The response is,
I hope it goes easier for all of us.
The response is to open your heart to the tenderness of how difficult this experience is when it feels like just breathing is risking our life.
Oh,
I hope it's easier for all of us.
And here's one way to make it easier for yourself.
Just saying thank you.
Thank you fear for trying to protect me from viruses,
From wars,
From murder,
From abuse.
Thank you.
None of that is happening to me right now as I'm listening to this.
None of that is happening to me right now,
But thank you for trying to protect me.
I am very safe.
Say it out loud.
I am very safe.
Where do you feel the fear in your body?
I feel mine in my heart,
So I'll place my hands on my heart.
If I have a crystal,
I'll place the crystal on my heart too for some added protection and I'll tell the fear feeling,
Hey fear,
I am so safe right now.
I am so safe.
I am so protected.
Thank you.
Thank you for your protection.
I am so protected.
Repeat these things like a mantra for the rest of your day or anytime you start to get a little anxious about what might happen,
What isn't actually happening to you right now.
I am so safe.
I am so protected.
Namaste.
