Are You Colluding with Fear?

Current world events are activating feelings of insecurity, stress and anxiety for many. Add to that any stress you might be experiencing in your personal life and it can be difficult to find a place of clarity and peace. It may be helpful to remember how much influence we have to turn the tide in our individual lives as well as to affect change in our global community.

Are we conditioned towards fear?

Fear is a natural instinct. Expert Gavin de Becker, author of “The Gift of Fear”, describes real fear as “as a signal intended to be very brief, a mere servant of intuition.” However, in the current global climate we are receiving daily exposure through media, movies and the news about imminent danger, possible threats, stories of instability and unrest, and threats to our security both personally and globally. This state of affairs is triggering survival instincts with the result that many people are often living their daily lives in a hyper-vigilant state.

“From the viewpoint of this level, the world looks hazardous, full of traps and threats. Fear is the favored official tool for control by oppressive totalitarian agencies, and insecurity is the stock-in-trade of major manipulators of the marketplace. The media and advertising play to Fear to increase market shares.

The proliferation of fears is as limitless as the human imagination; once Fear is one’s focus, the endless worrisome events of the world feed it. Fear becomes obsessive and may take any form – trepidation of losing a relationship leads to jealousy and a chronically high stress level. Fearful thinking can balloon into paranoia or generate neurotic defensive structures and, because it’s contagious, become a dominant social trend.”

– David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., “Power vs. Force”

When we are in a prolonged fear state we are not in a coherent state of being. Access to our intuition becomes clouded or inaccessible. We are easily controlled or influenced. Chronic fear (or insert your preferred uncomfortable feeling…anxiety, stress, hopelessness, etc.), whether based in truth or imagination, shifts us from a state of expansion and growth to a state of contraction and protection.[1] When, for example, stress becomes our default setting this pattern of response becomes “normalized”. It becomes a subconscious program that is running all of the time. It becomes familiar. You work around it. You accept that “this is how it is”. This conditioned, repetitive, unconscious response eventually depletes overall health and well being.

Whatever we accept or normalize becomes a living, energetic framework for our life experience. It becomes our default operating system. So it is important to check in from time to time to see what program is actually running the show. This is true at a personal level as well as on a collective level. The influence of group consciousness (collective focused attention) has been the focus of research done by The Global Consciousness Project[2] for approximately 50 years. From hundreds of studies the data shows that focused group consciousness, particularly when the focus is generated from both the heart and mind, has an effect in the physical world. Which means the state of mind or focused attention that we hold as a group makes a difference to what we will experience as a global collective.

The input reflects the output, and vice versa. This reminds us that we have tremendous influence as to which direction the tide will turn, in our personal life and for the global collective. Focused attention generates the essence of that which it is focused on. From the quantum perspective, like energies attract like energies. Understanding this energetic principle and applying it is a powerful tool for creating positive change. Our thoughts and emotions operate like a radio signal tuned to a specific channel. We attract things that match the tone of the energetic frequency of the thoughts and emotions that we carry and emit. The trick is to be a conscious channel chooser.

“ The most costly energy consequences come from acting out of fear. Even when choices made from fear lead us to what we desire, they generally also produce unwanted side effects.”

– Caroline Myss, “Anatomy of the Spirit”

What can help us stay in a coherent, harmonious state when opposing energies are swirling around us? Here are some practical steps:

- Stay grounded

- Be a conscious chooser – Be aware and intentional about the energies you allow into your life – be that a person, a movie, a conversation, foods, social media, or news. Stay informed, but be mindful of what you are consuming.

- Be aware of what are you thinking about, talking about, reading, watching or listening to? Is it raising your “radio frequency” or lowering it?

- Process your fear – While tapping lightly on the center of your chest (your heart center) bring the feeling front and center and look at it. Is this fear yours? Or is it a fear that you inherited from someone else? (A parent, a teacher, your culture?) If it is someone else’s, release it back to them. Ask: Is this fear helping me? Is it hindering me?

- Find an experienced ally – Sometimes it’s helpful to have another person to assist in this process but much can be done on our own with a little bit of focused attention.

Conscious creation is the key,

Deborah

[1] Bruce Lipton “The Biology of Belief”

[2] The Global Consciousness Project http://noosphere.princeton.edu/index.html

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