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Want To Heal Your Fear? Embrace it!
Published on 10 May 2011 at 8:31 am.
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By Michael David Lawrience B. A., B. Com
What if when we fully felt our feelings they would turn into joy?
Sri Bhagavan of the Oneness University in India teaches any feeling or sen-sation experienced fully in the present moment will eventually transform into joy. This includes the most challenging situations or intense emotions.
Robert Tennyson Stevens, “Conscious Language” also says that any emotion fully felt will turn into its strength - grief turns into joy, fear turns into confidence, and pain turns into love.
When we stop resisting pain and surrender, Divine Grace can enter our bodies. Contraction ends and a flow of energy opens, allowing change. I have experienced this on occasion.
To allow this transformation involves a mastery of staying in the center of a feeling. It means neither going out of body nor drowning in the feeling.
We can understand the above experience better by seeing a surfer in the curve of a big wave, perfectly balanced on his board. He neither gets tossed up into the air nor does he get submerged under tons of water.
It is impossible to stop fear or pain in our lives. When, however, we learn to experience our emotions fully, we take charge of them.
When we practice staying present with whatever emotion or pain arises in our bodies and master this, we experience something different, inner still-ness. We still have thoughts. Now however, we accept them without resis-tance.
Sri Bhagavan calls this experience of inner stillness, bliss, calm, peace. I have felt this peace, for brief minutes, sitting with a group of people going about their activities.
According to Sri Bhagavan with stillness, no energy gets lost. We feel this stillness as calm and have accepted the reality of our feelings. On the other hand, Bhagavan says when we resist our inner thoughts or feelings this fight uses a lot of energy and we experience pain, suffering, and conflict.
Would you like more joy in your life?
Practice this meditation daily or at least when intense feelings come up.
The only way out is through, said the poet Robert Frost.
The best way to handle our fears or any emotion is to:
1. Become aware of them. When we push them away they become stronger.
2. Accept your feelings.
3. Focus on the sensations in your body, however vague.
4. Pick one sensation and stay focused on it.
5. Resist any desire to change what you feel. Allow it to be.
6. Sit and feel the sensations without doing anything to change them.
7. If you start to think about the past or future, come back to feeling the sensations in your body.
8. Stay with the sensation until it transforms on its own without you doing anything.
This may take 30 minutes, 3 days, 3 weeks, or 3 months. Keep coming back to the sensation, feeling, or issue until it transforms.
Note: If you have a connection with the Divine you can call Divine Grace or a Divine Being you associate with to assist.
~ Michael David Lawrience is the author of Emotional Health: The Secret for Freedom from Drama, Trauma, & Pain coming to Amazon as a softcover in mid-June 2011.
Michael David Lawrience is a certified Residential Coach III with over 13 years’ experience teaching teen’s self-awareness, self-esteem, and self-reliance. He has over 35 years’ experience as a holistic health practitioner with a B.A in Sacred Healing and has been a certified Bowenwork Practi-tioner since 2005.
His niche is emotional health with extensive personal experience related to codependency recovery, strengthening self-esteem, healing the inner child, stress management, and meditation which he has practiced for over 40 years.
I hope you enjoyed this article with Michael and that you’ll check out his softcover book when it is ready at Amazon mid-June. You can 0rder other versions here now at http://www.emotionalhealthtips.com
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Blessings,
Lorraine
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Michael David Lawrience on 10 May 2011 at 7:47 pm: 1
Thanks Lorraine for supporting my virtual book blog tour.
In Gratitude,
Michael
lorraine on 12 May 2011 at 8:51 am: 2
I hope people grab your book Michael! Cheers, Lorraine