I’m listening to Sonia Choquette’s Trust Your Vibe. This is really my first exposure to Sonia Choquette’s work and I must say I love her. I love her energy, I love her vibe, her soft friendly voice and her talent as a teacher.
As it also happens, I’m doing some deep inner work this week. Plunging the depths of unknown inner territory and it’s scaring the heck out of me. So I’m listening to Sonia Choquette and here’s what she says about fear:
“It isn’t fear that paralyzes you. It’s hiding fear that paralyzes you. Here’s my experience: it takes so much effort to hide fear that you really do get frozen in your tracks. … Feel your fear and go with your vibration anyway. Simply saying: I’m afraid. … Feel your fear, make peace with your fear, good grief never try to get over it. Just say I’m afraid and I’m OK with that. Once you express that energy it’s like getting the boulder out of the road. It is such a relief not to hide that. The impetus to move forward becomes so great that in spite of your fears you find yourself moving in the right direction, taking the risk, doing the right thing.”
Ok, so I’m here to say it out loud to lord knows how many people: I’m afraid and I’m not going to hide and I’m not going to let that fear stand in the way either.
This girl has no room in her hotel for anything less-ness. All my interior rooms shall be filled with the golden sun of pure love streaming through to reveal all my much-ness. And jabberwocky of fear, I shall not slay you after all, we shall be friends and walk through this together.
God that last paragraph is stunning….I love it!
I’ve been working with a similar process lately and it is amazingly freeing….not pushing anything away….just letting it be and viscerally feeling it….experiencing it.
There has been much magic afoot in my world, I believe as a directly result of just letting it all be…. because who’s to say what’s good or bad or where its leading. Letting life play me like an exquisite instrument ….
That’s beautiful Sis … “letting life play me like an exquisite instrument”. That’s living in the flow of who you are designed to be. Philip said yesterday: we are not constituted to make anything happen. We are constituted to *let* anything happen.
Love this and you. Me2
This is amazing Beth :) You said it beautifully.
I tend to swollow my fear and anger and put on a happy face. Not a healthy approach at all, but a habit. Thank you for sharing what you have learned so I can apply it as well and let ME breathe again and be genuinely happy.
xxome
I looked at your signature, Me. I thought it read: home. As in — you are already home, I am already home, we are already home. We are spirits wearing bodies and at the core of each of us is that pure love streaming through. That’s Home. I see you, and now I see me too. xxxxo
Someone wonderful once said “Beth, your heart is a hotel.” I loved it then, and I love it still. I see the doors to your heart-hotel flung open wide and Love Light pouring out.
I loved when he said it, Terri. I am into doors flinging wide open too. That was the end of my meditation yesterday, the door flinging wide open and me grabbing the hand of my guardian angel as I went to run through it and she melded right into me. It was beautiful. Love you & see you soon!
You are the sweetness….and the muchness…and now the fearlessness…such is the flavor of Bethieness.
I adore all those flavors and YOU!
gorgeous. And being friends, just lovely. :-)
Yes lovely to be your friend Jules. Thank you for being an instrumental catalyst on this particular journey. xxxo
ahhhhh. I love this, Bethie! Fear, my old friend… and also (for me) when the fear is totally felt as just energy in the body, it is transmuted into an even deeper sense of the peace that comes from being in the present moment.
Thank you Denise. Feel the fear, evolved into more as the day went and at the heart of it very much like what you write. Update to be posted. Love you Neezie.
I was told once to embrace all my feelings and give them life. The bad ones will seem less important than the good ones and the good ones will prevail.
Good advice Monica!