FEAR!
I once thought of this word as completely negative but now I view it differently.
While hiking to a vortex in Sedona, Arizona my son decided he wanted to be fearless and started to climb around a rock formation that required proper placement of hand and foot. I could see the hesitation in his movements and maybe I fed off of it as his mother; but I immediately said, ”don’t do it.”
I turned and noticed everyone was looking at me especially the man they call the heart man who gives out heart rocks and tells you to spread love. I felt embarrassed and announced that even though he just turned 18 I was still his mother and could encourage him to be safe.
The heart man looked at me and said that is fear that your child might die and then began to scold me a bit, or at least that’s how I felt in the moment. As he told me to release my fear I could feel my body rejecting his message. I believe fear is a negative response, however I just didn’t align with his message.
I asked myself why I didn’t align with his message and realized that there is a difference between fear and safety, although they look like the same emotion.

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