Tricks and Treats
It’s Halloween week, and I am thinking about what scares me.
What are my fears? What do I tend to resist, stay away from? Why? What lies on the other side? How do I live in relation to that fear? How does fear reflect who I am in this world? What are the tricks, and treats, of fear? How can fear trick me into being more or less than myself? What treats and delights are possible outside of my fear?
Here’s one way I see FEAR, that helps to reveal its valuable tricks and treats more fully:
Feeling Energy Awaken and Release.
Remembering this acronym helps me to maintain a more balanced, neutral mindset as I feel the emotions racing through me. Fear tends to come up when I’m ready to grow and expand in a new way. It’s a gateway into uncharted territory, an uncomfortable and scary unknown. My past experiences, including failures, inform this fear.
But the gift is that fear can prompt me into realizing I’m ready for a new and bigger way of being. Time to shed old ways, old energies, old patterns, old habits that no longer serve me, and in fact, hold me back from my fullness. It can be a cue of readiness. What is it I am being encouraged to release in this opportunity?
Fear can trick me into paralysis, into inaction. Fear can also trick me into a tailspin of new ideas, or a way of reaching out that I haven’t done before.
Realizing the truths behind my fears can yield profound treats. Reexamining who I am, where I stand, where I want to be, as well as where I don’t wish to end up – what incredibly useful, valuable understandings those are.
What scares you?
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