Releasing Fear and Changing it through Meditation

By: H.P. Thomas Moore

What exactly is Fear? Do any of us really know? The Dictionary describes Fear
as:

distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether

the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid

Though that is an accurate definition by standards there is still so much about

it that we do not understand how to explain or even react to. Many of us have
had times where a situation or event has caused Fear to rule our lives for
either a short period of time or even longer. This can certainly be distressing
especially if the fear is rooted in something that we are consciously unaware
of. In this manner it becomes difficult for us to recognize the fear for exactly
what it is so that we can learn to either control it or attack it head on. Once
we learn that we can face the fears that we have and augment them in order
to release them from our lives, there is a release that occurs that helps to
free the mind and allow the living of life more easily.

Far be it from me to tell anyone what they should or should not do in life that
is obviously what we have free will for. I do suggest that everyone at some
point try to find the base of their fears and change that base so that the fear
no longer affects them. There are certainly many different ways that this can
be done, many that are tried and true like hypnotism, and others that are
newly created like meditation. I would like to talk a bit about the latter and
about using meditation and self awareness in order to release ourselves from
our fears.

Through most of our lives we live with fear and in a world of fear. We are
taught very early that there are things to be afraid of, and instead of using
that to empower ourselves we choose to allow it to consume us when it
comes. Fear can come quickly, almost instantaneous in situations. It can also
be built over years and years that fear becoming stronger and stronger as it
grows. The problem is that when we have a moment of fear, we dont have
rational thought through that moment. When fear arrives our fight or flight

reflexes kick in and we work purely on instinct. Instinct is a good thing, as any
of us surely know, but when the conscious mind takes a break from its chore
and allows instinct to take over completely, you can run into some problems.
My belief is that the more self aware that you are, the easier it is to keep that
conscious frame of mind through the intensity of the fear and then uses that
energy to empower yourself, and release a stronger emotional reaction in
order to free yourself from the bindings of fear. The key in my opinion to
releasing ourselves from fear is by the use of meditation and self awareness.

Meditation is the art of stilling the mind so that you become aware of what is
self and what is not self. Fear, I believe is a reaction that is not caused by self
per say, but caused by emotional reactions that are not controlled reactions.
If we were more in tune with our entire self then we would be more easily
able to recognize when an emotion is occurring and react to it accordingly in
a conscious way. This can be more beneficial to us than reacting in an
uncontrolled way that relies on intuition. By being able to control the emotion
better we are then able to continue to look at things from an objective point
of view and not allow ourselves to get swept away by that emotion. Seeing
things objectively can allow us to make better decisions in the face of fear
and control it so that it does not or cannot affect us in the future. This can
also work to release us from past fears that we have held on to for so long
and have little control over.

By now you are asking yourself just how it is that we go about this in order to
release ourselves from fear and become self aware. As said before I believe
that meditation is the key in doing this, but the type of meditation is very
important, depending on what you are using it for. Are you going to use
meditation in order to help aid you in gaining better control over your
emotional reaction to fear, or are you going to relive a past experience in
order to get to the root cause of a fear that you have currently? Personally I
suggest that both are done, though it can be a difficult road to travel, and an
emotional one at that especially in the beginning. For now I suggest that you
choose one to travel and when you feel comfortable with your improvement,
travel the other.

Lets first talk about using meditation and self awareness in order to release
ourselves from a fear rooted in the past. This can be a difficult one especially
if you are one to believe in past lives and reincarnation. It is very possible
that the soul collects the fears that it has learned and takes them onto its
next incarnation. This could explain why we have so many fears that we

cannot pin point the origins of in the lives that we are living currently. These
past fears can also be based from a childhood trauma or experience that we
have chosen to forget in order to make an attempt to put it behind us. In that
case it becomes more difficult because you are not looking at it from a third
party type view, it was actually something that you lived recently and have
blocked it from memory. Though you may have blocked the memory from
resurfacing on a conscious level, you cannot block the emotion of the fear
that is related to it. That is of course unless you use meditation to travel back
to the origins of the incident that caused the reaction of fear and work
through it on a different level in order to replace the fear with empowerment.
Then, when you find yourself in that situation again in a future time you can
relay back to the empowerment that you created to replace the feeling of
fear and move forward through the situation rather then allow it to make you
revert backward. Many time people think that this is in regard to major fears
or disorders, and while this will also work to benefit those as well it works for
the little fears that we deal with everyday. These can run as deep as possible
or be so far on the surface that they seem to wipe off, the point is though to
release them from you in order to live life completely and fully without the
fear of fear.

In this paragraph I am going to explain the guided meditation that I use to

travel to the past of a situation and change the fear into empowerment.
First you will want to get in a meditative position in a place that you will not
be bothered by phones children or pets. You may sit, stand or lie down (so
long as you dont fall asleep) as long as you are sure to keep nothing crossed.
Crossing of the arms, legs or other parts interrupt the flow of energy in the
body and put a clamp on the circuit. If you choose to sit Indian style or in a
Yoga position this is acceptable as the energy in those positions is allowed to
flow freely. Now what we want to do is to relax our entire body and keep our
mind awake and alert.

Begin by taking 3 deep breaths in through the nose and out of the mouth.
This will align the energy in the body.
Begin with your brain. Visualize your brain becoming smooth and soft,
glowing with white light. As you do any worries anxieties or pains release
from the brain and allow you to achieve complete relaxation. Say to yourself
Brain you are relaxed and you release all tension. Now when you feel that
relaxation breathe it in and as you exhale send that relaxation and light
shooting down your entire body, through your feet and into the ground below.
This cleanses the body of all negative vibration and grounds it out into the

earth so that it may be recycled by nature into positive vibration.

Now focus on your feet, seeing them surrounded by the white light. Feel them
stretch and contract and drop down into full relaxation. Say to yourself Feet
you are relaxed and you release all tension. Now move that light up to your
legs from ankle to hip. Feel the legs fall into relaxation same as the feet. Say
to yourself Legs you are relaxed and you release all tension.

Move that light upward again to your lower torso are from hips to chest.
Breathe in the light and allow it to drop your lower torso into full relaxation.
Say to yourself Torso you are relaxed and you release all tension.

Moving up still focus on your upper torso from your chest to your neck. Allow
the light to penetrate your body and drop it into complete relaxation. Say to
yourself Upper torso you are relaxed and release all tension.

Now move to your head from your neck up to your head and face. Allow that
light to penetrate you once again and fall deep into relaxation. Say to
yourself Head, Neck and Face. You are relaxed and release all tension.

Move that light back around you and focus on your back. See the light
rubbing your back releasing tension and dropping you into relaxation. Say to
yourself Back you are relaxed and you release all tension.

Now bring that feeling to your arms and hands. Allowing them to relax as
well. Say to yourself Hands and Arms, you are relaxed and you release all
tension".

Now that your body is completely relaxed and has released all of its tension
allow yourself to sit for a moment your mind still active but focused on
relaxation. Sit in this meditative spot for a few minutes and allow your body
to fully sink into a relaxed state. Always remembering that your mind is fully
awake and alert.

Now you are going to open your inner eyes and see yourself sitting in a field
midday. The summer air smells sweet around you, as a cool breeze rushes
past your face. You look to your front and see that there is a thick forest of
trees off somewhat in the distance. As you peer into the forest you see a
small path appear to lead you. You walk toward the path and travel down into
the woods. As you walk you see the flora and fauna on either side of you
change color. First Red then Orange, to Yellow, Green, Blue changing still to
Indigo, Violet and finally White. As the white flora fade you end up by a river.
On the river bed is a basket with a lid. You reach for the basket and open it.
You release all of your worries and anxieties into the basket, and close the lid.
You place it in the water and let the current take it far away from you.

You kneel beside the river and peer deep into the water. As you look focus on
a fear that you have that stems from a past situation. Focus on that fear and
put it into the water. Tell the water that you want to see the root cause of that
fear. Dont worry, you are completely protected and will be watching the
events take place much like a movie. Only this time you will be able to
change the occurrences.

See the water ripple and spread until it is completely still. As you look into the
river you see a scene begin to appear. This is the situation that you were in
when your fear first arose. Watch the scene play out and see where the fear
took place. Realize the root cause of that fear.

Now play the scene once again, only now see yourself as you are now in the
scene still watching from a 3rd part perspective. When you come to the part
where your fear takes place I want you to do the following:

Lean in to your past self and whisper into its ear. This fear cannot harm you;
you are strong, courageous and loved. This emotion has lost its control over
you. You will change your reaction and in doing so empower yourself!

Now pull back and watch the scene play out once more. This time seeing your
past self changing the fear into empowerment and not letting it take control.
You have now released yourself from that fear. In no way or circumstance will
it be able to affect you as it once did. You will instead feel strong and
empowered by similar situations instead of feeling fear. This fear is now gone

from your life, and will never again return.

Wipe your hand through the image in the water and disturb the surface as
the picture fades away. Turn from the river and travel back down the forest
path, this time seeing the flowers change in reverse order White, Violet,
Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and Red. Come back to the field that you
began in. Relax into the place you started.

Wiggle your fingers and toes to begin to come back into your body. Stretch
your body in its place. And finally when you feel comfortable open your eyes.
As you can see from this meditation we used the images that we saw in the
river to change the past event from creating the fear based emotion and
created instead a powerful and positive emotion to take its place. For very
simple fears this meditation done once would be sufficient. For fears that are
slightly more extreme, you may find yourself doing this meditation a few
times, each time changing the emotional reaction to empowerment. The
more it is done, the better and stronger you will become when faced with a
similar situation. It is important to know that this is not a quick fix by any
means. In fact in some cases this can take more work than that of seeing a
hypnotherapist or psychologist. The important factor here is that you are
using your own energy, your own voice to lead yourself through the
meditation, and take control of your own emotional reactions by replacing it
with positive influence from yourself. This is part of self empowerment and
self awareness. You are the only one that can decide whether or not to
change the situation to an empowering outcome or not.

Now we begin to work on something different. Meditation for self awareness

is the next step. This will aid us so that when we come across situations that
cause us fear we can remain self aware and take an objective standpoint in
order to gauge our emotional reaction and change fear to courage. This too is
going to take time to master so to speak. Why is this? Fear is something that
we have known since our very first incarnation into this world. We know that
it exists. We were unaware however that we could control that reaction to be
something more beneficial to us. The next guided meditation will bring you
through an exercise built to help you realize your self awareness, and be able
to better control your emotional reactions. When we realize what is truly us
and what is causing an effect from outside of us we have an easier time with
telling that emotional reaction to back off and to replace it with something
different. As I said before these will certainly work on fears that are strong

within the person. Fears that we know that we have but do not know where
they stem from. The best result that you will get from practicing these
techniques is that you will be able to disperse fears that you were unaware
that you had. Fear of success for example is something that most of us deal
with, but are unaware that we have. Because of this we self sabotage our
situations so that we cannot achieve what it is we think we want because of
the fear. By using the self awareness techniques we can better realize when
our unconscious mind is out to get us so to speak, and correct it in order to
work for us instead of against us. There are so many different fears that are
built inside of us that we cannot even think about living without them. To do
so seems impossible to the mind. That itself is a fear, the fear of living freely
and easily without fears. A word is to be said here as well about the releasing
of fears along with the law of attraction. It is said that what we think we
create. All of this is done subconsciously without our knowing. The best way
to gauge this is to be aware of your emotions through that self awareness. If
we are aware of our emotional reactions and we can change the emotion of
fear to something that is beneficial, then it will become easier for us to
attract positive influences in our lives, doing that will then make us
emotionally happy, and allow us to continue to attract that happiness. So you
see, by releasing our fears not only are we allowing ourselves to reprogram
our emotional influences, but we are also allowing the flow of positive energy
for manifestation.

Close your eyes as before and start with the 3 deep breaths to ground and
center yourself. Then move onto the relaxation from the first exercise to relax
the body and keep the mind awake and alert.
Now open your inner eyes and see yourself at the base of a waterfall.
As you look around you see that there is a crystal clear river in front of you
and you are surrounded by a thick tropical forest. In the center of the river is
a large flat stone.

Wade across the river and make your way to the stone. Sit down Indian style
on the stone and face the waterfall.

Close your eyes and focus on the breath as you listen to the white noise of
the waterfall crashing down.

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that breathe for a count of 2 12now release for a count of 4 1
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Repeat this breathing until you feel your body rhythmically breathing on its
own. Focus on the breath, and allow the sound of the waterfall to bring you
deeper into meditation. Focus only on the breath and allow your mind to
clear.
Your body is now breathing rhythmically on its own following the same 42
4 pattern. Now that we have achieved a state of meditation we are going to
work on our self awareness by expanding our aura and programming our 8th
chakra.
First, focus on the aura around you. Feel the energy shell that surrounds your
body. Visualize the colors that swirl inside your aura. See them brighter than
they ever were before. Now breathe in and as you exhale expand that aura
outward see it as it expands and grows larger. Do this again, expanding the
aura out and growing it larger and larger. See you aura reach all the way to
the waterfall and down the river, and through the forest in both directions.
Now that your aura is expanded you are able to realize the energy of animals,
plants, and other living things that are close to your energy field. You are able
to feel the emotions that they produce without allowing yourself to be
encumbered by them.

This is the first step to self awareness. The realization of the energies that
move around you and the feeling of that energy without physical or emotional
effect to you.

You can expand your aura at any time and with it will come the ability to
understand the emotional states around you without them affecting you.
Now see a golden, white light surround you. It reaches from high into the sky
to far below the earth. Sit in this light and allow it to penetrate your body,
mind, and soul. This is the universal light of energy, protection and power.
This column of light now sends a ray to your Root Center, at the base of your
spine. As the light touches it you see that it begins to spin and become a
bright red color. Allow the feeling of warmth that may accompany it. Now
focus on that red light and allow it to grow bright. Watch as it moves itself
upward and activates your next chakra.

This is your Sacral Center, near your navel. As it is activated it begins to glow
a bright orange. Getting stronger and stronger, you can feel its warmth as
well. Soon this chakra rises to activate the next.

This is your Solar Plexus Center, at the base of your breast bone. It begins to
spin and glow a brilliant yellow color. As it gent brighter it too moves itself
upward quite naturally and activates the next center.

This is your Heart Center, located in the center of your chest. When activated
it spins a deep green color. Feel its warmth as well as it spins and grows, until
it flows upward.

It now activates the Throat Center in the middle of the neck. This glows a true
blue color. And fills your neck with warmth, as it spins. This light too reaches
up and moves to the next Chakra Center.

This is your Third Eye Center located in between your eyes at the bridge of
your nose. As it activates it begins to spin and color appears as a deep indigo.
This too rises fluidly to the next center.

Your Crown Center now activates, located at the top of your head it glows a
brilliant violet color and fills your head with warmth. This light rises as a
brilliant gold beam and activated the 8th Chakra one foot above your head.

As the 8th Chakra is activated it begins to glow white, silver and gold. It gets
brighter and brighter as it is charged with all of the colors of your 7 Chakras.
Now we must program this Chakra to allow us to gain self awareness.

Say to yourself:
8th body Chakra, I charge you to allow me self awareness in all that I do. I
ask that you allow that awareness especially in times of fear so that I may
use that energy to replace fear with empowerment. 8th Chakra replaces my

fears with empowerment as you allow me to gain self awareness. Self

awareness is empowerment!

Now see that chakra turn from white, silver and gold, to a solid gold as it is
charged with your request. This chakra will now allow you self awareness
through times of fear. This will work on its own without any physical effort
from you.

Now focus on the breath once again repeating that 424 pattern. Find
yourself slowly coming back to physical awareness as you see yourself on the
rock in the river and begin to hear the waterfall once again.

Stretch in your seat and move your body slowly coming back to physical
awareness. Then when you are comfortable open your eyes and return to this
room.

In this last meditation we used the chakras as well as rhythmic breathing to

center and charge our 8th chakra center. The chakras are spinning wheels of
energy that align the center of the body. There are 7 main chakras that are
habitually focused on in the metaphysical field, but the body has many more
energy centers throughout it as well. The 8th chakra is also sometimes
referred to as the Cone of Power. This chakra can be programmed to work for
you in any way that you would like. Here we charged it with allowing us self
awareness through fear situations.

Be aware that you may find in the beginning that sometimes it works and
sometimes it doesnt. This is ok and very common. It does take time for a
complete reprogramming of the body reactions through meditation and self
awareness, however doing this meditation over and over will energize that
8th chakra more and more so that when situations of fear arise you are more
likely to retain self awareness and change the fear into empowerment. This is
not a fool proof method by any means. In fact there is no fool proof method
available. This takes time and dedication as well as energy from you. That is
the most important part though, is that you are using your own energy to
charge yourself with empowerment through fear, and in time can become the
strongest reaction that you can have, with the strongest energy that can
create ityour own.

Rev. Thomas Moore is High Priest of The Coven of L.I.G.H.T in South West
Florida, as well as a professional Psychic, Healer, Speaker and Author. He
teaches a variety of classes in the metaphysical field as well as Wicca and is
the Store Manager for Starchild Books in Port Charlotte Florida.
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