Awareness Allows Us to Walk With Our Fears

Fear is a phantom. It walks along beside us and then as we entertain fear, it enters us. At first we possess it, then it possesses us. At this point we become our fear. We are petrified with worry and we become desperate to solve the problem that fear is fingering inside our minds.

No one has to become their fear. We don’t have to be possessed by fear. Instead we can be with our fear rather than being our fear. When we allow ourselves to simply be with our fear, we take the time to acknowledge that we are feeling fearful. Something is not right and we are not going to look the other way and pretend like everything is OK. At the same time, we are choosing to walk with our fear. And in doing so, we are declaring that although we are aware of the fear, we have no intentions of allowing this fear to enter in and possess us.

We can walk with our fear just like we can walk with any emotion that awakens within us. We can walk with our sadness, or our anxiousness. We can be aware of them and we can simply allow them to be without trying to control or change them. Feelings are usually present because they need to be. Something inside of us needs attention or healing and our feelings prompt us to this fact. We don’t have to be possessed by any of our feelings, however. Instead we can simply be with them. We can be aware of their presence and befriend them by allowing them to be present and to work their way through our systems.

When we allow ourselves to be with our feelings, we mentally rise above them. We are aware that they are a part of us, but that they are not solely who we are. We gain a healthy control over them. One that allows them to coexist with us without making us miserable. It’s a natural form of control that doesn’t require us to do anything but remain aware of our feelings. There’s no need to medicate them away because we don’t feel powerless in the face of these feelings. We experience empathy for our feelings and we are confident that our Higher Power will help us walk with them until we can release them.

Fear has no more power than what we give it. Through awareness, we can walk with our fears and keep them manageable. We can possess them without being possessed by them. If fear has you feeling powerless today, breathe deeply and make the choice to stop being your fear. Acknowledge the fear and then choose to befriend it, walk beside it and learn what it has to teach you. Call on your Higher Power for help. Then step out of your fear and step back into life