Imagine an Antidote to Fear

Meg Deak
Meg Deak
Sep 7, 2018 · 3 min read

Do you ever have one of those days, when everything feels so heavy? I’m having more of those days lately. I even walk heavily, sometimes; it’s challenging to feel positive/upbeat. And, I hear the same things from my clients. Anxiety is rampant.

I often remind myself that I am living in extraordinary times.

As I complete my 7th decade, I look back on my past as an American citizen. I am second generation Hungarian and third, Irish. My parents followed the news, and so I remember back to the Suez Canal being a televised issue, the threat of nuclear fallout, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassinations, the Vietnam War. I believe we are living in extraordinary times, yet fear and sadness have always been part of being human.

Maybe I was just as fearful and sad during those times, and this is just piling on to those feelings. Experiences resonate with events and feelings from the past. Our his/herstory is filled with pain, replete with stories of man’s inhumanity to man, and woman. At its root, the pain comes from fear.

Fear, in itself, is not a bad thing. It is a protective warning that allows us to mobilize, when there is danger. Yet…

It is fear that pulls us down and makes everything feel heavy.

It is fear of the other that causes polarization.

It is fear of our own darkness that causes projection on to some other, beginning with male to female and vice versa.

Fear of lack — fear that our basic needs won’t be met can lead to violence and greed.

It is fear that can cause us to hurt others.

Fear would have no home, if we lived in a world where the forces of science were allowed to be used for the benefit of all; no one would lack for basic survival needs. Everyone would be free to pursue creative and social endeavors. That’s the Utopian, Star Trek model that many recognize as possible in a quantum universe. Alas, fear-mongering and greed hold sway here on 3-dimensional planet Earth.

Fear is the tool of the weak and corrupt. They use it to energize others to anger and hatred, releasing destructive energies. The battle of good and evil, where those duped by evil believe they are on the right side.

How do we combat these energies?

There is only one antidote.

The only antidote is love. Not gushy let’s-all-hold-hands love, but a deep centering in the heart and tapping into an abundant universe kind of love. A compassionate love that understands and accepts our own foibles and limitations as well as those of others.

Love is a lighter energy, a higher frequency. With love we rise above polarities; we can see and embrace both sides.

RISING IN LOVE

How do we rise above, when we are here in these dense times? We have to lift each other up, because it’s too hard alone. We each have to release our pain, our fear, anger, and resentment.

Getting heart-centered, feeling what we feel, releasing, and opening to the flow of energy through all our circuits this is how we connect to Love.

When connected to love, appreciation, joy, or beauty, a person’s energy field becomes coherent. That coherence creates an electromagnetic energy field that spreads outward. When we connect to others who are in the same frequency pattern, we rise. Imagine the strength of that force, when we all rise together. Imagine.

Meg Deak

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Meg Deak

Therapist, teacher, citizen fascinated with life.

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