Fear and Love
I‘ve been exploring this concept of fear and love.
Particularly fear in relation to love and how that then affects other aspects of life.
Fear… This limited belief system that has become so habitual to us. That little voice that seems to pop up in the most blissful moments… why is that?
When feeling into the route of fear, it all seems to come back to a fear of death.
Of either our own death in this physical body or the death/ending of something we hold dear.
This strange ideal we don’t look directly in the face but allow to control so much of our existence, even dangerously into the realms of our subconscious.
But what if we step away from our primitive instincts and open our minds to the fact that everything is impermanent and that nothing at all lasts forever…
Perhaps we can come to some kind of inner sense of calm in realizing that truth.
If we can deeply understand, so that the cells of our body trust this truth that absolutely everything has a birth a middle and a death.
Be in a day… or a thousand years.
Impermanence is actually the only thing we can really find familiarity in.
If we take the fear of death and we look at what it is we are actually resisting, then we may find it is fear of the unknown.
The seemingly slipping into the abyss, freezes you to your core that nothing lies beyond that letting go of what we find familiar. But in all honesty we can’t stop that process.
It’s not only inevitable, it’s often necessary so that something new can be birthed from that black abyss.
If we can bring some presence to our fears, finding the route cause and look it dead in the face with out judgment or a rational mind.. Perhaps we can begin to bring some acceptance to the truth that nothing lasts forever and ultimately save ourselves a lot of energy. A lot of wasted fear.
What is then fascinating… is the closer we live to this acceptance, the closer we live fully in every second, because we surrender to the fact that we really don’t know weather or not we will have another.
Perhaps this is why activities like surfing or horse riding, sky diving, paragliding fill us with so much fire for life! So much passion! Because we are living closer to that line of life and death. We become fully present to that exact second, more alive because we are finally living, unhindered by fear.
If we really truly understand that every negative thought is simply derived from fear… fear of something going wrong, of someone dying or being hurt, we are resisting the inevitable end or obstruction to what we hold familiar.
If we are living fully, passionately and in love, then that fear simply cannot exist in the same space, because love is fears exact opposite and it out shines it.
Because we trust that whatever we experience will shape us in some way and so ultimately we are given infinite opportunities for growth and it too good or bad will eventually pass… then perhaps we can begin to relax a little and just enjoy existing.