I had a dream this morning, just before I fully woke up for the day.
A certain Knowing about FEAR visited me. It was this kind of 'Knowing' where you feel it with your entire body! My dream was about shattering fears and the transformation that comes with this, much like in the new Dune film that I watched yesterday. It comes down to this:
In order for the new and better version of ourselves to rise and be born, the old one must disappear, die, be no more. This process sometimes takes only a few seconds (like it was in the movie) but the preparation for it may take years of learning and character building. The real Knowing of what it takes to step into leadership really struck me hard yesterday while I was watching the growth of the main protagonist (Paul).
It is fear that makes the road so rocky that only few people venture in that direction. It is fear that stops most people from letting go of the old and familiar stuff thus preventing us from achieving the greatness of our full potential. This fear has many and various faces and it disguises itself quite well.
What will my parents say…? What will my friends think of me…?These are some of the shapes FEAR takes.
And if you have tried to go against these fears, you know how rewarding it is to overcome them just because you were terrified of them at the start.
“Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings obliteration. I will face my fear and I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see it’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I remain.”
Turns out, Frank Herbert (the author of Dune) was a personal development teacher and philosopher in his own right. Well, at least in my eyes he was. And I only just discovered that...
He knows how hard (and how easy) it is to grow into ones best self. Here is another quote to finish this post.
“Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us.”
Are there areas in your life such that when you think about them you are contracted, tense, angry, annoyed, triggered and you blame other people or circumstances for your predicament?
There’s a reason for that - it’s FEAR in disguise. It is a good idea to unmask it if you want to be happy instead of miserable. Next step?
- Accept that you are afraid;
- Acknowledge the fear;
- Feel the fear, let it go through you and pass through you;
- When it is gone, the only thing left will be YOU!
