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 ...