In my private practice I see so many motivated and gifted people being stumped.  Fear and anxiety seems to stop them from recognizing their power and even their own light. 

It can leave some paralyzed from moving forward in their life and may bring on depression.  They feel disconnected from themselves and the Universe.  I feel this old quote by Marianne Williamson captures a specific facet of this paradigm. 

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automaticaly liberates others.”

Polluted Beliefs

We all carry a quantity of distorted beliefs that we have acquired in our experience of life … some have happened either in childhood or perhaps we’re born with some distorted beliefs. 

These beliefs can be carried through different incarnations and continue impacting our current life.  Wherever these beliefs come from, if left untreated, they can have damaging impact on an individual’s perception of who they are and become an unnecessary burden to carry.   

The distortion does not allow you to step into your Authentic Self.  Instead of making choices and having experiences from a place of free will they do it from the space of the distorted belief and keep revisiting or replaying similar scenarios until the belief is finally released. 

Recognizing Patterns

Start exercising awareness ­­and just notice if there are repetitive scenarios happening in your life.  It could be in your relationships… maybe you see things playing out at home, at work, or just a feeling you can’t shake as you move through your life.  The first step is to identify patterns and then you can begin to deconstruct them. 

Opening­

We live in a rich and abundant universe and need only to open to be fully in the flow.  So, what stops us?  Why does our [little] ego get stuck?  Before we know it we are afraid to do this or that and so we remain in the same place because somehow fear has gotten the upper hand.  It has become our Master and we have slowly lost our sense of who we are and the power we once felt within ourselves.

I remember a few obstacles I faced when I was opening to my intuitive abilities.   I possessed talent and ability but was reluctant to fully open to it.  I couldn’t understand why.   I was scared by the bigness of it.  It felt easier to stay closed than to allow myself to be overtaken by whatever it was.  It felt overwhelming.  I was taking some courses and found I experienced things differently than those around me.  Instead of embracing it I just wanted to fit in with everyone else and to do things in the same way as the group. 

It was silly.  There was no way I could access that part of me while being closed to what was true for me.  In the beginning it was a struggle to own this part. That meant I had to allow myself to release my own distortions of what it meant to be an intuitive, a psychic and a spiritual being in the world.   But that is the very key of who I am and when I closed to it… I closed to the essence of who I am. 

Closing

We can be so ready to close when we feel threatened in some way.  If we are feeling fear or anxiety we have already closed.   If you are closed, are you living in a conscious or unconscious way?   Sadly, you have moved into the automatic repetitive patterns of where fear and anxiety take you.  How you feel about yourself and what you deserve and who you are has become tainted by the vibration of fear and anxiety.

Here is a quote from the Sufi poet Hafiz… take a moment to tune into the space it brings and you might be able to feel the consciousness and the light that is held within it…

I wish I could show you when
you are lonely or in the darkness,
the astonishing light of your own being.
 - Hafiz

The space of fear and anxiety is total illusion.  It has nothing to do with reality.  It is simply a reality you have unconsciously banished yourself to and from this space it is impossible to manifest the life you want and receive what the Universe holds for you.  

Overcoming Fear and Anxiety 

How do you get out of it?  The first step is to begin to realize it is not you.  Now, you can make a different choice.   Instead of retreating into fear and anxiety perhaps you can welcome something different. 

You don’t need to go into a position of opposing fear and anxiety because that may only bring on more.  Don’t let yourself be tricked by fear and anxiety. 

If you feel fear or anxiety don’t react and don’t avoid or try to distract yourself instead let yourself finally feel it.  Get familiar with it.  It’s almost like making friends with it.  The more times you feel it and start to get used to the thoughts and sensations they will begin to shift and subside. 

When you try to run from it… it begins to control your life… when you bring it into your consciousness and allow yourself to get familiar with how it feels then it subsides and is no longer a focus in your life.

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