I see that more folks than usual are up late looking for answers. At the risk of sounding oversimple, it probably wouldn’t hurt to review the equations in Einstein’s famous Theory of Relativity…
- Fear + Courage = Perspective
- Fear + Breathing = Excitement
- Fear + Tapping = Grounding
- Fear + Kegels = Power
- Anxiety + Poor-Sweethearting = Detachment
I often write late at night, and I used to live in a basement apartment. While writing I would sometimes feel the hairs on the back of my neck rising, as if someone was just outside my curtained windows looking for an opening. One night I gathered up my courage and flung open the door – to find a Glorious Full Moon staring at me from the Darkness!
Another time I lived in a creaky old house, and I was alone in the house, in my bedroom with the door shut, when a series of creaks and groans sounded for all the world like someone sneaking up to my door. Again I flung open the door – and found myself staring at a wardrobe mirror leaning against the wall in the hall, just outside my door. Now that was scary! “We have found the Enemy…” as Pogo used to say.
Fear + Breathing is an old equation, which I’ve heard from many reliable sources, and which works well. Dr. Kim has dozens of excellent variations at…
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dr+kim+d%27eramo+anxiety
Many of the videos that are less than two minutes long are pitches for her longer sessions, but most of the longer ones share Powerful Mind-Body techniques, like this one…
Dr. Kim includes Tapping in many of these videos. One of the first things we do in serious Fear is Leave Our Body. Tapping (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzVd6Ww0as4) can bring us back in. In some sense, Leaving our Body is an effective strategy – if someone is about to kill us, we’re already gone, so there isn’t much else they can do to hurt us. But it may help create a lousy next Lifetime, if we re-enter as a Terrified, Implacable Child. We have more tools at our disposal when we stay in our Body, or get back In.
I’ve mentioned my Kegels story before, so humor me while I repeat it. I Learned about Fear and Kegels in a workshop with Jack Schwarz (http://holisticu.org/). Quite innocently, I went to see the movie Aliens after the workshop. If you haven’t seen it, the Fear level goes off the charts after a few minutes, and never comes back down till a few minutes before the end of the movie. Having just Learned it, I was doing Kegels like mad all through the movie – two hours of solid Kegeling!
Jack taught that Kegels Slow Down Time. If Fear is coming at you at 2mph, it’s a lot easier to handle than at 60mph. Between the movie theater and where I lived was a mile-long bridge, and after the movie it took me absolutely Forever to cross that bridge! In that mile I looked at my speedometer maybe ten times, and it kept saying 40mph, but the bridge wouldn’t go away. It was like being in the Twilight Zone. I’ve never heard anyone mention Kegels in connection with sports, but I now understand how someone can hit an 80mph curveball. Sports often refers to it as being “In the Zone.”
And once we’ve determined that our Fear or Agitation is not Present-Moment, or that we aren’t in Imminent Danger, we can say to ourself, “You Poor Sweetheart, you’re Feeling Anxious, aren’t you.” Or “You Poor Sweetheart, you’re Worried about that deadline, aren’t you.” As Quilless testified in her Comment to Kegels 4, she “experienced notable Shifts” when she Poor-Sweethearted herself. It’s a remarkably simple and Powerful technique.
We don’t Leave our Body when we Poor-Sweetheart, but we certainly Leave our Ego, or rather, switch Horses to a different Ego. It’s basically a Shift into Self-Love. It’s particularly effective with Anxiety and Worry, because those are markers for being Out Of Self-Love and Questioning our own Competence. Every Experience is an Opportunity to Learn something Life-Changing. What if we started every morning with “I Wonder What Wonderful Life-Changing Things I’ll Learn Today.”
One thing I Learned today is that I can afford to be even more Assertive about shunting my Shoulds to the side to make more room for my Wannas. I tried to work on a big project that’s due next week, and got nowhere, wasting several unproductive hours in the process. Even when I Noticed how much more Anxiety was involved in having to do everything myself, and PIAVAed help from the Great Spirit and Her Designees, I got nowhere! So I got the message, Gave It Over, and dove Joyfully into my Wannas.
- https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/category/manifestation/piava-review/
- https://astrobuss.wordpress.com/category/poor-sweetheart/
Considering that Sedna (Fear/Power) is Stationary (Strong) within an eighth of a Degree of the Fixed Star Algol (the Eye of Medusa), we need to review the status of Gender Balance in the World this week. I think this sums it up fairly well…
…with Speaker Pelosi giving the Antichrist a Celebratory Stinkeye for soundbiting compromise while offering none. Not exactly a Perseus Moment for the Alpha.
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