OMG ~ I’m over it with fear. I mean, yeah, okay we all feel it. And yeah, okay, there are physical manifestations of it. And yeah, okay, it’s been there for lifetimes. But enough already!
I say that as a person with a tremendous amount of respect for the history we are now emerging out of. In my former life as an academic, I wrote a book about resistance to slavery in the United States. I am well aware of the cruelty that we as human beings have perpetrated against each other. I also am aware that there are people on our planet—and in homes not so far away—that are living in violence. I get that. We are coming out of the most violent period of human history.
But how do we really come out of it? How do we end the cycle of violence? Some people would say by putting the perpetrators in jail. But I ask—have you never perpetrated violence? I know I have. And if not violence against others—I know NO ONE who has not perpetrated violence against self.
So. Where does that leave us?
Well, fear and violence go together. People use violence in order to instill fear. That’s been seen in cultures around the world for hundreds and thousands of years. And the ironic thing is when you live in fear you attract violence. Think about it for a moment. Fear is the expectation that something dangerous is going to happen. Physically, emotionally, socially, financially, familially, environmentally. Something dangerous is going to happen. And then guess what. It does.
From a metaphysical perspective, it happens because you expect it. That’s what you are emotionally involved in—the expectation of danger. And so it does.
But the thing is—and I see it over and over again with clients, students, colleagues—in my own mind—these are phantoms of fear. They are not real in present time. They are inheritances of the past. Or of other people’s lives. Thought forms, energy forms, circulating around that we download and imprint and run through our systems without even knowing it. If you look around at the room you are in—is there danger there? I mean as Bryon Katie says, can you be absolutely sure that it’s there? Probably not. But do you believe that there is? Then there is. And it’s time for that to end.
That is if you want to be free. Because honestly you can be entranced by your fear—and it gets so familiar that it becomes your comfort zone. It’s familiar, it’s routine, your parents had it, your neighbors had it, your partner has it. Your children don’t usually have it when they come in, but boy you teach them quickly that they should have it too. Because that “keeps them safe.”
But if you want to be free, you have to see that for what it is. A Terror Zone. Not a comfort zone. A Terror Zone. A zone of existence in which you’ve become a master at managing fear, but not resolving it. So it’s always there, under the surface, waiting to pop up.
It’s time to end the cycle of violence and the terror zone inside your mind. Because your decision to do so is all that it takes. Walk out of the terror zone. Feel the sunshine. Smell the flowers. See your loving partner. Take in what is actually all around you. You are safe. All is well. And the more you get emotionally involved in that, the truer it will be. Really.
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