Fear

   Fear is a useful, and even indispensable, emotion. It puts you on your guard, catalyses your senses and intensifies your awareness. Although it may seem strange at first, fear is your friend. It is the radar that picks up on everything and guides you on your journey through life.

   It is the basic instinct of human survival, on the physical, mental and spiritual level. It is vital to have a very acute sense of what can constitute a threat to your well-being. Sensitive, well-adjusted antennae indicate any form of danger, enabling you to identify the threats as they occur and to deal with them.

   But the danger signals emitted by fear are suffocated if you have developed a form of behaviour designed to deny or suppress this emotion. By not paying attention to these particular signals of fear, this energy is dispersed and transformed into a general paranoia, a sort of ever-present "chronic mistrust".

   This is why many people are subconsciously transfixed by fear. They are as it were afraid of fear, which prevents them transforming it into positive energy.

  

   Suddenly they are afraid of everything: losing their job, losing their loved one, losing their life. They are afraid of success, afraid of being too happy, afraid of the truth, afraid of feeling anything, afraid of moving, afraid of change.

   Have you never noticed (and felt within you) how unexpressed fear grips at your throat, neck, lower back, raises the shoulders, stiffens the jaw, furrows the brow, immobilises the pelvis and locks the knees?

   The various parts of the body bear the mark of fear, but we are so used to it that we are impervious to its messages crying out to be noticed. This all-invasive fear accumulates and expands, paralysing our vital energy and petrifying our emotions.

   There is no need to be afraid of fear per se, or feel inhibited or immobilised by your fears. Instead, give them the attention they deserve and allow them to express themselves as and when they occur. In this way, the energy of fear is released in the right manner.