Reader round-table — Trust and fear
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Fear in the watery shadows |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 00:00 |
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 Chip Richards
We lived near a special beach a few years ago, where our daily rhythms were woven into the lives of a local pod of dolphins. Every day for about six months, they met us in the waves, and each day their behavior seemed to reflect our thoughts in profound ways, often revealing to us some deeper truth or lesson about life. One day when I had something heavy weighing on my mind, I went out surfing to find some peace. I caught a few waves and the pod arrived, so I followed them, paddling for about 20 minutes into the open blue. At first I felt much better (how could you not, hanging with these guys?), but eventually my mind circled back to fears about the problem I was having... As soon as it did, the dolphins disappeared. Gone, as if on cue. Glancing back to a thin strip of sand in the distance, I realised for the first time how far out to sea my so-called friends had brought me… way out!!!
Then I noticed something else… There was a large, dark shadow hovering underneath my surfboard. This was way bigger than a dolphin, and to my knowledge, could only mean one thing… my friends had brought me out here to be eaten by a shark!
Every cell in my body recoiled, and I lay frozen on my board, waiting for the shadow beneath to move. But strangely, it just stayed there, hovering hauntingly, reflecting my fear in the highest Finally, after what seemed like minutes, I lost patience for death to find me, and I stuck my head under the water to see what was going on. There I saw an amazing site… What I had thought to be a large, hungry shark, was actually a small cluster of dolphins gliding in close unison together, right underneath me. The water had magnified and distorted their image, melding my most treasured allies into the vision of my greatest fear. And the amazing thing was that this had all happened right at the very moment that I was indulging my mind with fears about life. What I discovered here in the water – and have found to be true in life ever since – is that when we trust enough to look beyond the surface of even our greatest fears, more often than not we discover that the opposite is true. Just beyond our nightmare visions of being swallowed whole, is a force of pure light-filled support, guiding our path through the sea of all possibility.
Chip is an author, screenwriter, movie producer, workshop presenter, and is the facilitator and mentor of Writing the Story Within, a 28-day online writing program run regularly on LivingNow’s CWE site. http://www.livingnow.com.au/CWE/writing-the-story-within |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 00:00 |
Diana Vela
When I fear my heart hurts and is contracted. When I trust, my heart opens and flows with life.
Steadfast, I push forward in spite of a persistent gripping fear pressed upon my heart and entire body, almost paralysing both. Step by step, no matter the raging fear knotting my body, I follow the road I rarely take. I have refused the urgings of my heart for so long, time after time, always immobilised by waves of fear, a thousand reasons holding me back in the safe place of familiarity.
This time, I chose to trust, to follow the direction my heart takes me. I chose to boldly face my fears and move forward in my life. I am ready to face, in trust, the change my heart brings me. At times I ache to stop, simply succumb to the fear. In these fragile moments of impending weakness, I tap into the courage and determination of my ancestors who forged new territories in their lifetimes and brought new worlds for future generations. This image keeps me moving forward towards the future of the unknown.
To my surprise, fear begins to dissipate slowly, little by little. Then, like a puff of smoke it lifts out of my body, gone. I immediately feel lighter, at ease and euphoric as I effortlessly ride the flow of life. I catch myself curious, excited, imbuing the new experiences of life and people flowing through me, surrounding my soul, filling my life with newness. As a child in wonder, I am delighted, filled in richness and pleasure I had not realised were missing from my life. What greatness did I miss as fear held me frozen in the past?
No more lost years. No more. In trust, I journey towards unknown adventures guided always by my heart.
Diana Vela is a visionary instructor in evolutionary, spiritual and life altering work. Utilising the wisdom, love, and direction from the heart, she has spirited and transformed the lives of thousands. Diana recently founded ‘The Heart Unites the World’, a non-profit, global educational organisation. Workshops, courses, and presentations, are offered in Australia and US. For upcoming events in Australia contact: Australia: 07 3300 2375, US: 00111 512 658 0508 or
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I had failed in the trust process |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 00:00 |
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 Helen Paige
I have the ability from childhood to trance channel. Prior to conceiving my second child, she ‘visited’ us through a channelling informing us that she would be born in hospital, by caesarean, and would go first to Daddy. I instantly dismissed this as I was planning a home birth.
As I was being transferred by ambulance from my planned home birth to hospital, was I getting scared? You bet. Rather than trusting and surrendering to the process, I decided to fight for what I wanted. I pushed for her to emerge naturally, when suddenly the baby’s heart beat dropped and the doctors gave me a local anaesthetic, rendering me unconscious. I awoke to see my new baby girl in her Daddy’s arms! I knew at that moment that what appears in our life sometimes as fear, is there to teach us trust. I had not failed in the birth process, only in the trust process!
Helen is a trance channel and medical intuitive. www.medicalintuition.net.au |
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Destroy fear thought forms |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 00:00 |
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 Dr Hazel Wardha
Various catastrophic and frightening events occurring in the Planet are bound to create as well as strengthen existing fear in people. Fear of getting injured, dying, becoming homeless, losing dear ones and poverty commonly undermine trust and faith. Fear commonly creates disease in the body, mind and emotions. Panic and anxiety are the offspring of fear and have a paralysing effect on a person.
Self-help systems are available, such as pranic healing, to destroy fear and build trust.
An energy body surrounds the physical body and there are centres or chakras within it. Negative and positive thought forms are stored in the chakras of the energy body.
Fear commonly resides in the ajna (third eye), throat, solar plexus and basic chakras, depriving one of personal power. Fortunately, negative thought forms can be cleansed and disintegrated easily, using specific cleansing techniques. Positive thought forms can be transferred to the energy centres, using energising techniques.
A simple pranic healing technique to rid oneself of fear is as follows: Place a handful of salt in a litre of water in a bowl. Make a physical movement of your hand, imagining that you are pulling out fear from your energy body, and throw it into the salt water, with the intention of destroying it. Then raise both palms, facing outwards and bless yourself with faith, trust, internal strength and resilience. Use this technique for seven days and observe the difference.
Another technique is to pull the fear out of your consciousness by making the physical action of doing so. Push the fear out with your hand repeating, “Out of my energy body, out of my consciousness, out, out, out”. Then direct violet-coloured energy with your palm towards the fear and intend that you are disintegrating it. Bless yourself with courage and trust.
Hazel is a pranic healer and educator and a homoeopath. For more information www.aiis.com.au or 1800PRANIC. |
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Flip the coin, trust side up |
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Wednesday, 01 September 2010 00:00 |
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 Jocelyn Hall
Listening to fear is easy. When attached to ego and low self worth, the voice of fear is loud and compelling. You’ll feel rejection, loss, hurt, pain, discomfort, look foolish – don’t go there, put up a wall, it’s safer, trust me. The same scenarios with habitual reactions and responses play out over and over, like sit com repeats. Sound familiar? Fear has a message, the stronger the fear, the louder the message.
Allowing time to sit and listen to this message opens up new possibilities. Ask what is there to gain from facing this fear? Flip the coin, trust side up. Breathing slowly and rhythmically, visualise the scenario playing out the way you would like it to. Your inner guidance will assist to bring about changes within, revealing a stronger, more confident you that recognises opportunities and makes different choices.
Jocelyn Hall is currently undergoing a metamorphosis, emerging as a writer, photographer and artist with a focus on people and the environment through documentary and photo essay. Jocelyn, aka Jo, is open to writing and photographic assignments and facilitating Mandala workshops. She can be contacted on 0403 007 030 or
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