Article by Ken Dyers

Fear is an energy that restricts personal freedom.

It is a resistance to experiencing something in the future; something we consider would be undesirable. We may have fear on experiencing what will happen if we do something, or what will happen if we do not. Either way, this resistance reduces our options - therefore our freedom.

The characteristic of fear is that it disperses attention causing us to lose our spiritual stillness. When this happens we are more likely to make poor decisions or act irrationally. Ironically it is often when we resist something through fear, that we draw the very thing we’re resisting towards us. If you are in a position where you fear losing a job, this is more likely to trigger defensiveness, even uncharacteristic mistakes, which may put your position in jeopardy. Everyone’s behaviour at some time, in some area is negatively affected by fear.

Of course, no one is fearful about everything. It is isolated to certain areas depending on a person’s past experience. The conscious and unconscious fear we are in effect of is our greatest restriction. It is the invisible barrier between our present situation and our potential.

Fear reduces intelligence.

Your intelligence in an area is dictated by your ability to hold your attention still on that area. The more attention you can apply, the more intelligent you will become. To the degree your attention is dispersed by fear, your potential for intelligence is reduced.

Where there is understanding, there is no fear.

We fear that which we do not understand – often things that are new or unfamiliar. So to reduce fear we must increase understanding. This is achieved by holding our attention still on the area, until the confusion or ‘misunderstanding’ dissipates. By experiencing more, we understand more. When you have complete understanding in an area, you will no longer have fear.

Consciously do what you fear and fear disappears.

If a child falls off a bike, he may develop fear of riding in the future. He may make the consideration ‘I never want this to happen again’. This energy if unaddressed, remains in the cells of the body, a self-imposed limitation that will follow him into adult life. The consideration would stop him riding bikes, because he fears falling off again. However, if the child is willing to experience what actually happened, and therefore why he fell off, he would see the bike had a punctured tyre, which led to the accident. By understanding this, he would duplicate the experience, the energy would be released from the body’s cells – and he would no longer fear riding. All fears can be overcome using this same principle.
Through effective meditation we can again detach and view fear for what it is – an energy and sensation – which is separate to us spiritually. We can regain our freedom to experience life without the limitations fear places on us.

In summary

Fear reduces our ability to experience. By regaining our ability to experience, we eliminate fear.

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