Fear

The experience of fear for most people comes in the form of thought and feeling. The thought is usually unconscious, and so the first "awareness" most people have of fear is from the feeling, whether this is a physical sensation in the body or an emotional feeling in the chest or belly. When a person becomes aware of fear, they usually conclude that the fear is present to alert them to some ‘potential' event that may involve them in the future. In this particular "logic," the fear is an indication of the need to change something in the present in order to avoid something in the future. Or it is a result of something in the past, some experience, which has left some kind of "mark" in the person's psyche which has the effect of "I'm not going to do that / go there again." For example, "My fear of being hurt prevents me from coming too close to others." In this situation, the fear is seen as a protective device to prevent the person from experiencing exactly what the fear is about. It is ironic that more people don't realize that when they are in fear, they are already experiencing exactly what the fear is about. It is happening in the present, not the future. Someone who fears being hurt is - consciously or not - already experiencing being hurt, right at the moment when they experience the fear. It is the same for all fears.

Many people believe that fear is a form of protection energized by their unconscious, or their Higher Self, angelic guides, or other ‘guardians' from the unseen dimensions, for the purpose of changing the direction of one's current path. This is far from the truth. Rather than being a form of protection, fear is actually an unconscious act of self-sabotage which takes you away from what you are really doing in the moment, the fact that you are choosing to think, feel, and believe something which doesn't actually exist in the present moment other than for the fact that you are choosing to think/feel/experience it.

Fear is not a psychic prediction of the future. It is not a form of astral protection or communication from the spiritual planes. It is not an indication that you have chosen incorrectly. Fear is a manifestation or creation of unconscious denial. That means that it is the person who is experiencing the fear who is actually creating it. This is in accordance with the first principle of manifestation: you are the creator of all you experience. This raises the interesting question of why one would choose to create fear. Of course, most people would not consciously choose such a thing, if they knew that was what they were doing. But most are not yet willing to acknowledge that they choose to create their experience of anything, much less fear, so we continue here with an approach which does not require this particular responsibility.

When a person becomes aware of fear they usually respond to it in different ways based on their programming of the moment. One approach to fear is to attempt to control the events that one believes will create the situation to which one has connected the fear. The logic here is "if I control the events then I can avoid the experience which the fear is making me aware of". Another approach is to abandon or exit the current situation completely. The logic here is ‘if fear is present then that means I am not ‘supposed' to be doing what I am doing". And the last approach is a rather direct, conscious denial in the form of disconnect: "I am not afraid, this has nothing to do with me". Regardless of which of these approaches one takes, none of them really deal with the fear at all. In all of the approaches mentioned above, the fear still exists. So what exactly is the purpose of fear, and how do you transform it?

Fear is very simple to handle, if you are willing to deal with it for what it is and to take these few simple steps.
In order to do this, you need to remember what fear is.

FEAR IS DENIED THOUGHT

This means that when you experience fear, you are experiencing a feeling which is there to show you that you are choosing something, and you are actively (although often unconsciously) denying that you are choosing it. In other words, you are choosing to experience something but are unwilling - on some level - to take responsibility for that choice. IT'S THAT SIMPLE. So in order to shift your experience of fear into something else, if that is what you desire, here's what you do.

[1] ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR DENIAL

Experiencing fear, whether you know what you are in fear of or not, means that you are in denial. What are you in denial of? Try looking at the thought you are thinking, that is one way to get at the choice which is at the root of the fear. But before you can approach identifying the thoughtform, you have to admit that you are in denial. So admit it! "I am experiencing fear, therefore I must be in denial of something." That's not hard to do now, is it? It even helps to say it out loud, such as "I am in fear, therefore I must be in denial of something I am choosing now."

[2] IDENTIFY THE CHOICE / THOUGHT

Whatever "form" the fear takes - for example: "I fear I'll be rejected" - tells you what the choice/thought is that you are denying. In this example, the choice is "I choose to experience rejection." Notice that the thought form of the choice is in the present tense, and in the form of "I choose to experience . . .". This is because your subconscious choice manifestation process (which is what your thought is referring to) always works in the present. If you don't know what it is that you fear, you can simply acknowledge that you are choosing/thinking something which you are denying, and ask/seek/desire to know what the choice is. It will usually come to you rather soon. Or perhaps you can ask a friend if they can help you identify the choice. Sometimes when you don't know what the fear is about, you can use "the Unknown." For example: if you are in fear and don't know what it is about, you can say "I am in denial that I am choosing to experience the unknown." So perhaps the choice is simply that "I am choosing to experience the unknown." That choice, when denied, creates fear too!

[3] OWN THAT YOU ARE THE CREATOR OF THE CHOICE / THOUGHT

You are the creator of all you experience, and there is nothing in your mind - conscious or unconscious - which YOU are not thinking. Therefore, in order to change your experience of fear, you have to think a different thought, or make a different choice - other than the one you are choosing, thinking and denying, which is creating the fear. In order to create a different experience for yourself, you have to first take responsibility for yourself as the creator of the choice/thought you are presently experiencing. If you find yourself arguing about whether or not you are the one who is choosing or thinking the thought which is creating the fear, then you are not owning it. There's nothing wrong with any particular choice or thinking any particular thought. Thought is just one of the forms of manifestation by which you become aware of your choices. Just as feelings are another form of manifestation of your choices. The same goes for "physical reality." You have the power of creation within you, which is what we call choice energy. Choice creates. So own it. You think, and your thoughts are your creations. And when you deny, that is your creation too. And one of the forms which your denial takes is fear.

[4] CHOOSE TO CHANGE THE THOUGHT BY CHANGING YOUR CHOICE

Sometimes people will get to this point and find that they know what thought is creating their fear, but they are addicted to that thought and refuse to change it. So they may shift their experience of fear in the moment by coming out of denial about their thought, but if they don't then change the thought, they will create again what the thought is showing that they are choosing. In order to change your experience, you have to change your choices. When you find yourself addicted to certain choices/thoughts, it is often because you have those thoughts/choices wrapped up in polarity thinking, i.e., right and wrong. Thoughts you are addicted to usually fall into the "right" category, and even if you judge the thought as wrong, there is still a part of you that is thinking it is RIGHT to think that the thought is wrong. For example, if you spend a lot of time thinking that "xyz is wrong" then you are actually thinking and choosing "xyz" and guess what? You will be creating "xyz." Choice is a very powerful energy, and the more conscious you become about your thoughts as an indication of your choices, the more you begin to use that power in a conscious way, and begin to CHOOSE your life, rather than just respond or react to events around you.

[5] ACT ON YOUR CHOICE AND SUPPORT YOURSELF IN YOUR ACTION

This may not be - for some people - a different step than number 4, but we separate it out here to show that you can think you are making a different choice, but you are not acting on that choice by choosing and thinking something different. Supporting yourself means giving yourself the space to make a different choice, and allowing yourself to be OK with a different choice, and not judging yourself for making a different choice. Then, practicing with your new choice to create the change you have initiated by continuing to make that choice when the situation comes up for you again.

Fear can be paralyzing - that is usually the purpose it serves, to stop you from experiencing an expansion in some area of your life. Instead of looking at fear as "the enemy," you can learn to use it - to serve your purpose of becoming a more conscious being - by acknowledging that you choose to play with it by denying certain things. Self is very interesting - we like to choose some things and then pretend that we did not. That is why we have the experience of fear. It serves no other purpose than to alert you to the fact that you are in denial. Neither God nor anyone else instills fear in you - you instill it in yourself. If you want to "un-instill" it, now you know how.

FEAR	THOUGHT FORM
abandonment	ICTE* abandoning myself now
being hurt	I choose to experience hurt now
being seen	ICTE seeing myself now
betrayal	ICTE betrayal now
change	ICTE change now
choice	I choose to experiance choice now
commitment	ITCE commitment now
death	ICTE death now
evil	I choose to experience evil now
failure	I choose to experience failure now
happiness	I choose to experience happiness now
joy	I choose to experiance joy now
loss	I choose to experience loss now
manipulation	ICTE manipulation now
openness	ICTE being open now
rejection	ICTE rejection now
responsibility	ICTE responsibility now
spontaneity	ICTE spontaneity now
success	ICTE success now
surrender	ICTE surrender now
truth	ICTE the truth now
unknown	ITCE the unknown now
vulnerability	ICTE being vulnerable now
wrong	ICTE being wrong now