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Fear as a Daily Reminder for Creating Possibility in my Life

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Everyday I experience the emotion of fear.  Fear that I will not make it, that something will go wrong in my life, that things will not turn out good or the way I want.  Mostly I experience fear that I will not realize my dream, that I will fail.  This fear happens sometimes in the morning, during the day and even in the evening when I am apparently safe at home.  It comes up when I am engaged in my work, when I am attempting to create my dream.  It even shows up when I least expect it.  The intensity also varies, sometimes more and sometimes less.  In the past the fear has stopped me and has a tendency to do so now.  The mistake that I have and sometimes still make is to respond to the fear and not look under neither it, for what is generating it.

When I stop and do not respond or react to the fear, I can take a look at what is causing the fear.  I know that fear is merely an emotion, the way my body is experiencing a thought or belief.  This insight is invaluable in my transformation and with the creating of possibility out of the experience of fear.  When I experience the emotion of fear I will pause for a moment and become present to that which is causing it.  It is the belief that I am not enough and that no matter what that things do not turn out good, that I will not succeed.  The space for change is to be present to this insight and then create possibility, to create another thought or belief that will replace the negative one.  It is relaxing and taking the opportunity to generate a new thought that eventually takes me out of the fear that is part of my current work.

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Moving Through Fear on a Daily Basis

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

As I go on the journey of transforming myself and creating my dream I am faced with the emotion of fear on a daily basis.  It seems that as I take on working and completing something with my dream that the emotion of fear is somewhere in the back ground.  Sometimes it appears in the fore ground.  Nevertheless the emotion of fear is always present in my life these days and something that I have to continually move through to continue my work.

If I do not continue to move into and through fear it would probably stop me, stop me from doing what I am up to, creating a life that I want to live, fulfilling my dream.  I know that the purpose of the emotion is to stop me.  It almost seems as though it wants me to not only stop creating but even to fail.  I know that inside the emotion of fear is the thought process of not being enough, that things do not turn out, that I will be a failure somehow.

My work is to not get attached to either the emotion or the thinking that generates it.  I must acknowledge it.  I must never pretend that it is not there or appearing for me.  I must acknowledge its existence, let it go and continue to move in the direction that I want.  Even in the face of fear and the thoughts under neither it, I must stay committed and engaged with respect to creating my dream.

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A Comment on Facing the Emotion of Fear and Pushing through it.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Sometimes we get caught up in the emotion of fear.  Sometimes experiencing fear on a daily basis will stop us from becoming our possibility, of moving forward in life.  The only solution is to face the emotion of fear.  We must face it directly.  We must surrender to the emotion of fear and move into it, not try to avoid it, if we are to move through and past it.  Sometimes we try to make it go away by using drugs or alcohol.  However, it is only in facing it directly that you start to give it up or let go of the ability of fear to control us, of it directing and ruling my life.  Face it and give up trying to make it go away.  Trying to make it go away is not facing it but avoiding the work.

The fear has been created by our thoughts and beliefs, our thoughts and beliefs about ourselves.  The fear and the thinking process that created it are from our past.  It is only in facing the fear and affirming ourselves a new that we start to transform our life.  We must relax the body, face the fear, and any consequences that we have created as a result of living in it, and start to create our life from the present, by constantly declaring ourselves as different, different from who we think we are from our past.  Facing fear directly gives us the opportunity to give up the fear of our experience of fear.  While not always an easy process it is necessary for one to live differently.

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My Tendency is to Create Negative Stories in My Mind

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

When I start to experience fear, as I sometimes do on a daily basis, I start to create a story in my mind.  The story is about how the emotion of fear is justified, that something bad will happen.  I believe at times that something bad will always happen to me, that it is just a matter of time.  This type of thinking keeps me on edge, waiting for the disaster to happen.  It also keeps me in a state of fear.

Instead of reacting to the fear, and doing something to sooth the emotion, I have been merely sitting with it, relaxing, breathing and waiting.  I am getting it that I am creating the story, and this insight helps to some degree.  Much of my fear is not reality based.  It is coming from inside me, from the thought that something is wrong, with me, and that I deserve for nothing to work out in my life.  This is a belief that I have had with me for along time.  It is like a virus in my mind, directing my life, at times determining it.

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The Story within the Breakdown.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

Another component of gaining insight has to do with becoming present to the story that the person is creating with respect to the breakdown.  While the emotional state of the individual is very important to become aware of, listening to the story that he is creating is also of equal importance.  Within holistic counseling, every emotion is created by a thought.  When there are negative emotions present in a person’s life as he is experiencing a breakdown there are also corresponding thoughts taking place.  The thoughts that are taking place will appear as a story in the person’s mind.  Within the breakdown the story will be other oriented, involving external people, places, things, circumstance or situations.  Within the structure of the story, inherent to it, will be the belief that the external events are the real and the true cause of how the person is feeling.  It is with these thoughts that the breakdown and inauthentic way of being exists, something that is made up about another, hiding what it is truly about.  Blame and resentment will eventually result.  Becoming present to the story is vital if one is not to impulsively act upon it and as a result bring its destructive consequences into existence with respect to his life.  Becoming present or an observer to ones story is crucial to transforming a breakdown and getting back on track with ones life.

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Fear appearing as though it is running your life.

Posted on by Dr Harry Henshaw

The emotion of fear and how it can appear to be running our life is of great importance to have an inquiry about.  We sometimes believe that the emotion of fear is running our life, that it can stop us, control us and limit us from getting out of life what we say we want.  We do have a tendency to believe that fear is the cause of some of our problems, some of the difficulties that we are experiencing.  While there is some truth to this, it is more that fear is an emotion that we experience, sometimes to the point that we truly believe that it stops us.  As an emotion fear has something in common with all emotions.  An emotion or feeling is how our body experiences our thinking, how we experience thoughts and beliefs in our body.  The emotion of fear is no different as it is created or driven by a thought, one very fundamental and basic to our very core, of who we think we are.  Fundamentally we believe that we are not good enough, and as a result experience the emotion of fear as well as others emotions and feelings.  Fear is about me believing that I can not really handle life, that somehow it will handle me, that I am not adequate enough as a person to live life fully, that somehow I am not good enough to do life properly.  Once I have that I am not good enough I will perceive of the world and others as more powerful and adequate than me and as a result be open to the emotional response of fear when life starts to show up as I created it.

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