Release Your Fears
Fear is probably the most limiting thing you can feel.
It stops you from doing what you truly want to do.
Learning to transcend your fears is one of the most powerful and liberating tasks that you may encounter on your spiritual journey.
Fear stops you from being who you know yourself to be truly. It limits you in many little ways that destroy the joyful spontaneity of life. That said releasing and freeing you from your fears is one of the most challenging charges you may ever undertake.
If you think back over the course of your life and consider the ways in which your fears may have prevented you from trying something new, going somewhere different, or seizing a new opportunity, they are probably vast. Of course, one of the most difficult issues you may struggle with is in determining whether something is just a fear vs. a warning of intuition. In order to actually make that discernment from a place of centered awareness, you must strive to conquer your overall shapeless fears to some extent, and so dealing with fear becomes a proverbial Catch 22.
So many little fears and worries can linger in your undetected and unaware mind chatter that they can rise to sabotage you. Because of this addressing your fears becomes a significant step in your spiritual work and evolution.
It is essential to realize that what you fear may be a real danger. Learning to release your fears and improve and empower your life can happen during certain circumstances in life that are generating your worries. War, Pandemics, environmental dangers such as fires, floods, earthquakes, and hurricanes, typhoons, and tornados are all examples of things we as human beings justifiably fear.
However, even when the cause of the fear is genuine, you are far more able to cope with the severe life changes these situations may engender if you learn to transmute, transform, and transcend your fears.
The mind is more effective and efficient if it is free from the paralysis that fear engenders. Your emotions are more effective and efficient when you don’t let the stress of a difficult situation be in control.
The spiritual life lesson of stress and even danger is to learn to let your Higher Self (your Soul) have more control. Allowing your Higher Self and your whole self to be released from the paralyzing influence of fear is both freeing and dynamically empowering. Using the opportunity of the current life crisis to learn how to release your fears can make your life much better.
I use as the entering invocation of every meditation the words. “Calm your mind, Open your heart, and Invite the Light.”
I have found that every life circumstance, no matter how dangerous, is better when approached with a calm mind, and open heart, and openness to the wisdom and direction of your Higher Self.
To free yourself from letting fear limit your life, so that you can take advantage of the possibilities and potential that life serves up to you in the buffet of life experiences, you need to understand better the purpose of your life. When an event or opportunity presents itself, you can, by identifying and aligning with your higher source and affirming and understanding your Soul purpose, use that strength to face your fears. This is where many people throughout the ages have found using the powerful tools of meditation and affirmations can be very helpful.
I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
– Oprah Winfrey
Meditation can help you calm the chatter of your mind which too often generates fear, not from what is happening, but what might happen or could happen. The way that your fears bring you out of the NOW moment, into reliving past events and errors, is part of how they grab hold of your attention. Releasing the past with the firm realization and awareness that the past is truly over and is in the past, and there is nothing that you can do to change it, is helpful in releasing fear. Likewise realizing that the future is right NOW, both unformed and yet to be created is also very freeing.
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Affirmations can also help you invoke your intention and engage your own will, which strengthens and empowers you. Ultimately, using positive affirmations can help you energetically create a future more aligned with your Higher Self and your higher life purpose.
Meditation can help you focus on what is real and calm both the mind and emotions. Meditation helps you center yourself in the powerful and potent potential of the NOW.
To be afraid and experience fear is a normal and natural response to the human experience. A great deal of fear is instinctual. Over the ages fear developed, in our evolution, as a way of keeping us safe from harm. Some fears are spontaneous responses to what is unfamiliar and unknown. A loud noise unexplained is an example of a fear response that resolves immediately upon an understanding of what caused the sound.
Freeing yourself from fear does not eliminate those natural and normal responses to a stimulus such as the automatic response to a loud noise. Freeing yourself from fear just means taking control of your life in ways that open you to explore the vast array of possibilities and opportunities that life offers you from a different perspective of your consciousness.
Learning to transcend fear does not mean that you never feel fear, but it does mean that you are the one in control in your life. This transforms the fear. This makes it more manageable and less of a presenting factor in your life.
To Free Yourself From Fear Is A Multistep Process
1) Use Discernment & Discrimination
Before you let your fears prevent you from doing something irrational use your better judgment and discrimination as the first step in freeing yourself of the limitations of fear.
2) Clarify What It Is That You Are Fearful Of
A key element in releasing your fears is to use your mind to explain what it is you are afraid of. In the clarity of understanding, what exactly you are fearful of, you can often see the absurdity of the fear itself. I am reminded of times in my coaching when upon hearing someone’s fears expressed I have fed back to them what they just said by asking them to clarify “Just what is so bad about feeling good?”
3) Face Your Fears
To transcend fear it is important to not only look at what it is that you fear in any situation or circumstance in life but to face your fears. As the saying goes “do what you fear most and you will conquer that fear.” When you do this, what is underlying the fear may surprise you and once revealed may dissolve in the light of your consciousness looking at and understanding the fear.
4) Learn From The Past
Often, the underlying genesis of the fear lies in events or circumstances of the past. Past failures, past rejections, or past events that may have seemed to justify and validate the fears may often be the most difficult to transcend. Honestly exploring the nature of a particular fear is crucial. If the fear is from your past life experiences, it is wise to evaluate and examine what caused those failures. What lessons can you learn from the past failure that can help you avoid mistakes as you move forward in your life?
This shift in your attention and intention to learn from your past errors while not letting the fact that you have made mistakes limit you from embracing the full power, potential and promise of the future is vital in manifesting your life’s purpose and your Soul purpose to fulfill your true destiny.
5) Put The Past Behind You
Once the lesson aspect of the past is clearly understood, it is equally important to put the past behind you and realize that what has happened in the past does not have to affect what is going on in the future which is still uncreated and unformed. You are a co-creator of your present and future.
6) Transcend Your Fears
It is important when you experience fear that you make a choice between living your life with fullness and abundance or letting fear keep your happiness and joy locked up so you can only take it out to look upon occasionally and wistfully. Transcending your fears and then moving forward to do and become what you know in your heart is what you are meant to do, to be or become is an important growth or spiritual evolutionary step.
To help you transcend your fears
here is a simple affirmation technique:
AN AFFIRMATION FOR TRANSCENDING FEAR
I align myself NOW with the wisdom of my Soul
that I may clearly see the
opportunities life is presenting to me.
I consciously choose to
embrace my life guided by how love is best served,
directed by my insight and intuition so that I may
manifest my higher purpose in my life today.
– Genevieve Gerard
By affirming your choice, you take control of your life from the tyranny of fear and limitation opening your life and yourself to the freedom and the joy that are your birthright as a spark of Divine Light and a child of God.
For me I choose not to let fear control my life. That does not mean things are easy or always go right for me, but it does mean that I give the control of my life to my heart to be guided by love, my mind to be directed by discernment and my Soul to direct me to where I need to be when I need to be there to fulfill and manifest what is for me right and good.
Just remember that your unexamined fears and mind chatter may work against you. Meditation and contemplation allow you to be the director in your life instead of just the actor or re-actor when you consider your mind chatter with your higher consciousness and awareness.
Finally I will close with:
An Exercise to Help You Learn to
Transcend Your Fears
For just 3 minutes every day, sit quietly in reflective meditation. Take a deep breath while you calm your mind, open your heart and invite the Light. Open to the wisdom and guidance of your Soul.
Then, for that 3 minutes step outside yourself and be a detached observer of your chattering mind. Each time you catch your mind in a thought of fear, take a few seconds to identify the nature of the fear. If it is from a past mistake, consider where the mistake was and learn from it, then quickly forgive yourself for the error. Remember the past is finished. It is over and what is happening now is different.
If it is an intuition or warning, consciously decide not to do what you are being warned about. If it is a limiting thought or belief that could hold you back, reframe the thought (in a positive light) and look into the possibility and potential that life is offering you.
In this brief exercise you may find some mistakes in the past that you need to forgive, that’s ok. Don’t beat yourself up over them. Forgive yourself for them and let them go. They are in the past and only the present moment can be truly lived. Ponder on this.
In this way you can learn from your life lessons, release your fears and take back conscious control of your life, refusing to let fear control you.
Then go forward into the events and circumstances of your life that are happening at the moment, emboldened and empowered by this brief meditative experience to help you transcend your fears.
Embrace your personal power as you learn from these daily 3-minute experiences and if necessary, forgive your past mistakes. Relegate the past to the past; enter into what is real NOW. Free from the limitations of your fears you are now empowered to move forward into a future in which you can fulfill and express your reason for living.
When you are aligned with your Soul and have faced the fears that are generated in your chattering mind life presents you with unlimited possibilities to be and become all that you are meant to be and to manifest and do all that you are destined to do.
You have my blessing to release your fears!
Namaste,
Genevieve Gerard
The Blessing of Love on all that you do!
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About the author:
Genevieve Gerard teaches Transformational Consciousness – from first awakening to enlightened Soul awareness. She helps you experience the joy that results from the spontaneous “touch of your soul.”
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Genevieve has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy and Theology and a Master of Arts Degree in Counseling and for over thirty years has worked one-on-one with people who were recovering from devastating disabilities and chronic pain. Teaching the mastery of the mind-body relationship she was one of the early professionals trained in biofeedback, visualization, imagery, and meditation as essential techniques to help people heal their bodies, heal their emotions, heal their minds, and heal their lives.
Genevieve’s work demonstrates what she knows so well, “It is spiritual connectedness that triggers physical healing and emotional and mental well-being.” Helping people, like you, tap into your higher-self is the power she wields to guide you to heal and transform your life.
Now, with this understanding, she combines the effective techniques she developed over decades teaching mind-body mastery along with her extensive experience in meditation and spiritual development to create a synthesis of mind-body-spirit that delivers complete healing and opens the door to unlimited personal growth and an encounter with your Soul.
In addition to her current life guidance coaching sessions, and workshops performed around the world, Genevieve has produced more than 20+ guided meditations in the last eight years that are available on Apple Music (iTunes), Amazon, CDBaby, and her website.
It is her vision that through your experience with the techniques of awareness, visualization, and meditation, the love of your Soul will touch and transform your life through her writings and products. It is her sincere desire that the potential of a life of joy and celebration that seems to elude so many people can become a reality for you, now and forever.
Browse her life story and read the Touch of the Soul that changed her world. To contact Genevieve, visit her keep in touch page.
Last updated 3-26-2020
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I am so pleased that this article was helpful to you. I look forward to your return.
Namaste
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I am always delighted and encouraged when someone shares my work. I hope this helps your sister.
Namaste
Oh sister! I remember the feeling. One day at a time; one decision at a time. Focus on the big stuff. Great article. It is helpful and enlightening.
I am glad you found the article helpful. truly one day at a time is the only way we can really live.
namaste
This is very helpful and the positive mode for me is in those words … enter into what is real NOW… GOD WILL PROVIDE…. yes it does not mean you pass through different calamaties in life … war, typhoons.. one is spared from that FEAR feeling… but the constant reminders you shared here how to conquer FEAR will help me a lot… will share this with my children. thank you
Forgiveness is a reliable, strong and sure bridge to happiness and freeing oneself from the bondage of fear.
I too once was a prisoner of fear. i fear everything. i fear to be alone. i fear to start a work for it might not do well. i fear to present my ideas and opinions for it might not conform to the majority. i fear of losing my life. i fear of losing a love one. i fear of living without my job. i fear of living in poverty. i fear of living without friends. i fear to reason out. i fear to fight for my right. i fear to be humiliated. i fear to be scolded. i fear to be nag. i fear to accept responsibilities. i fear consequences. But it was until I learned to forgive the people who hurt me and I was able to forgive myself, that i gained my freedom thus melted my fears away!
Your article is a golden guide to everyone else who are still in the chain of fear.
May through your article a lot of fear prisoners be set free!
Kudos!
Upon reading this article I had conquer my intuition that keeping my fear is really useless. I had experienced having lots of fears I had not overcome for years but this time upon reading these articles I forgot everything and I can move on now. Thank god, this helps me a lot and I have no more hesitations anymore to things that come into my life. I’m now free, fears cast away and i can move freely.
Looking at myself as of now, I am no longer afraid to have my views being read by other people. Instead I know it will help cuz seldom will have the guts to spend their time to have a glance on this. I’m a teacher also but now I can spend my time reading all these readings and thanks ma’am you are a great spiritual teacher. I’m hoping you live longer cuz you changed and transformed me into a great person.
I do spend time reading your articles and I am so thirsty looking and finding readings like you publish because then it enlightens me a lot to everything that’s inside or everything that is at the back of my mind.
As I told you, I’m a Filipina public school teacher with no computers during our school days. I try myself to learn and operate it just to express these thoughts of mind and as I observed it does reach you although I’m hard up typing cuz I’m already almost 60 years old and I don’t even have glasses.
If only we were born rich I could afford to have better gadgets or I maybe can buy these books but how can I have it I’m a small teacher and can’t hardly even use a laptop to express and read if it wasn’t for my grandson who lent me this computer when he is free using it.
I’ve been reading your articles for quite a long time but I didn’t know how will I share what I’ve felt upon internalizing all of it but this time I’m so happy. I am now free of all fears that I have kept at the back of my mind, so relaxed and so I now enjoy feeling free to go with others and so no longer to keep myself inside a shell. I had these fears for a long time, that is the reason I was looking for a long time to remove these ill feelings. Up unto the time that I discovered this I was just scrutinizing or getting interested in these readings so thanks again for these hours. I now have a lot on my mind that really helps and enlightens me today.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I am always thrilled when my work and my words can help someone on their life journey. Blessings. Namaste.