How does one release fear?

How does one release fear?

How do I release fear? Is it as simple as saying “I release fear”? Yes and No.

I have tried saying “I release my fear of ….” over and over with little success. What I have discovered is that I have to go deeper. To truly release fear we must first acknowledge 2 things:

1. That we are fearful
2. What we fear

Fear surfaces in many ways – as anger, envy, greed, stubbornness, nervousness, hatred. Think of any negative emotion and back of it is fear. The challenge for us in acknowledging fear is that we have been conditioned to deny it. We may have been told, “Don’t be greedy. Greed is not good”. And so, in our quest to be good people, we go about denying that we are greedy.

Having acknowledged that we fear, what is it that we are fearful of? Do we fear being alone? Without money? Without a partner? Losing what we have? Someone we love dying? Our own death? How can we release something if we don’t know what it is? ? It is important to acknowledge what we fear if we really want to release it. For example “I fear running out of money”.

What you will notice is that anything you fear is not happening now. The fact that you fear running out of money means that you have money now. If you have a fear of someone you love dying, it means they are alive now. And if you fear your own death, you must be alive now!

So ask yourself, why spend precious time fearing and worrying about something that has not happened?

Fear is your projection of a future state. You cannot fear retroactively. Yes, you may have had an experience that was traumatic, that caused hurt and that caused you to fear such an experience happening again. But acknowledge that what you fear is a future, not-yet-manifested event!

Once you have acknowledged that you fear and what you fear, the next step is to accept it. Accepting means no judgement. You are not a bad person for having this fear. You simply have it, and it’s OK. The fear is not the sum total of who you are – it is not YOU.

Think of it. “I fear running out of money”. This fear will manifest in certain types of behaviour – worry, greed, hoarding, stinginess, etc. Are you these things all the time? Aren’t there some times when you have been giving and generous? When you have not worried about running out of money? Your fear is not you – it’s a thought that you have. And like any thought it can be changed.

Today, if you desire to release yourself from a fear:
1. Acknowledge that you have a fear
2. Acknowledge what you fear
3. Accept the fear

Now it has no power over you anymore. You may say with certainty and confidence “I release the fear of____. I am free”.