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Leaving fear behind
“As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live.”
Goethe
We are living in difficult times right now. Yes, it’s true that we’re well off compared to people in many 
places like India and Africa. But it’s all relative.
Our fast-tracking, multi-tasking, 24/7 culture is frazzling us! We’re being asked to takon more and more in our jobs and our personal lives.
On top of this many people are very frightened by the economic troubles the US is currently having. Even if we’re not one of the unfortunates who have lost our houses, the outlook seems bleak. The deck of cards looks like it may be crashing down.
The media seems to prey on our fears in its need to bring fresh news to our doorsteps every day. And some experts say things are really bad, while some say don’t concern yourself overly, things will bounce back.
It’s hard not to buy into the feeding frenzy that’s going on. We can’t help but worry that our comfortable lifestyle may be disappearing.
This is a time when we need to ignore what’s going on out there, even to ignore our own surface anxiety, and go inside ourselves to a deeper place. Martha Beck calls it leaving the shallows.
Inside us lies a deeper, calmer place. This is the place where we can find self trust.
The good news is that it’s not difficult to get there.
All we need to do is breathe and be still.
We can do this in our office, in the forest, in our hot tub or shower, when we’re holding a baby, when we’re making love, in short anywhere.
We just need to take a moment or two, or more if we desire. Just breathe deeply, hold the breath briefly, then push it out through our mouth.
Once we access this place of peaceful stillness, we can return to it anytime we choose to.
