What is F E A R to you?
False Evidence Appearing Real
Failure Expected And Received
Forget (or F...) Everything And Run
Frantic Efforts to Appear Recovered (Real)
Feeling Everything's Really Awful
Few Arrive Ever Rejoicing
False Expectations (Egos, Evidence, Emotions, Experiences..) Appearing Real
Feelings Every Alcoholic Rejects
Forever Escaping And Retreating
Fools Every Alcoholic Repeatedly
Forgetting Everything About Reality
Future Events Already Ruined
Forgetting Everything's All Right
Forgetting Everything About Reality
Notice that many of these acronyms have a focus on the future. We are thinking about the future and we become afraid.
Try choosing to be in the present instead. Notice I said choose. Fear will arise. It's unclear if we have the power to stop fear from coming into our bodies and awareness. It's pretty clear that when fear has arrived it will affect our physical bodies, our experience of the present, and our hopes, feelings, and awareness. Fear changes us. So when it arrives.... notice it... and...
CHOOSE to BE in the PRESENT....
Breathe...now...this one moment...notice what fear does to your heart rate, breathing, temperature, thoughts, feelings, hopes, awareness....
Now choose to be present....instead of thinking the thoughts that fear brings on...just be... breathe...notice...be aware....
Take this moment to notice something in the present and fully experience it. Perhaps use beginner's mind to notice some object near you. Afterwards, notice how your fear and your awareness has changed.
There's enough energy right now to handle the present, not all that might come in the future (and has happened in the past). So CHOOSE to stay in the present....
Breathe....
