LIFE Wisdom Releasing Fear with Ed Langan
When I sit down to write articles for Star Nations Magazine, I usually have a few topics to choose from. I like to enlist the help of The Guides to help me choose the subject that will best benefit my readers. Without failure, they almost always choose the hardest one!
This time, they asked me to write about releasing fear. Obviously, this is an important topic at the moment. There is a lot of fear in the collective consciousness, and the good news is that there are solid techniques to release it. What is fear? Fear is an emotion. “Your emotions are communication from your higher self to your conscious self.” – The Guides Your emotions are how your soul communicates with you. You have a thought and then you have an emotional response to it. Let’s talk about emotions. How many emotions do you think there are? The answer may surprise you... There are two emotions: love and fear. On one side of the spectrum, we have all these flavors and degrees of emotion that all feel good. And on the other, we have flavors and degrees of emotion that all feel bad. When you’re feeling content, relaxed, amused, interested, playful, eager, creative, joyful, loving, passionate, etc., you are on the love side.
The love side is focused on connection. You’re in alignment with your soul and you’re allowing your energy to flow in all of these loving states. When you’re feeling bored, annoyed, frustrated, scared, aggravated, spiteful, depressed, angry, etc., you are on the fear side. When you’re on the fear side, you’re not allowing your energy to flow. You are less in alignment with your highest self, or your soul. Here’s a question for you: is fear good or bad? Your instinct is probably “bad.” However, fear actually isn’t a bad thing when you understand what it is. Fear is your soul letting you know that what you’re focused on right now is causing you to ask. You are not in alignment, and you are not allowing your energy to flow. Fear is just communication. Once you receive this communication, you realize that there’s no reason to hold onto fear.
Star Nations Magazine • April 2020 • 16
So how do you get back into alignment and release the fear? You release fear by changing your focus. If you continue to focus on things that cause you to feel fearful, you are attracting more of it. There are a few dependable strategies that you can use in your everyday life to shift your focus and release fear:
1. Your Breath
Use your breath to change your focus. When we get scared or fearful, our body goes into “fight or flight” mode. In that physiological state, our breathing becomes shallow.
To shift that state from fear to love, breathe in as deeply as you can. At the top of your breath with your lungs full, breathe in just a little more (like you’re taking a sip with a straw). Sip a few more times until you can’t do it anymore. Hold for a second, then let all of that out with a big, relaxing exhale. Visualize yourself releasing the fear as you exhale. For some, giving fear a color or a pattern helps to visualize this.
