When you’re scared of something, you become obsessed with it.
Anytime you avoid it, you are acting out of fear of “that thing.”
It controls you.
If you’re afraid of running out of money, you make your decisions based on how you imagine money will be limited. Fear stops you from making moves that generate cash.
Afraid of germs? Spend your life trying to separate yourself from microorganisms. This is impossible without also killing your biome and eventually yourself.
If you’re in conflict with a person and you don’t do well with conflict, you think about where you might run into them. You’re low-key scanning the room to see where they are. They are your predator.
What’s cool about fear is when it is experienced, when the sensations and emotions are fully felt in and through your body, they become something else. This is the power of embodiment–the ability to fully experience your life so you are not trapped repeating the same patterns.
The result? Transformation.
Your fully felt fear becomes your new behaviors guided by instincts, fueled by courage, and embodied in knowing.
So if you’re wondering why you aren’t doing the powerful things you KNOW to do….
Ask yourself this question: Where is fear tying you up?
Ask your body to show you where it resides. It will feel like tension, discomfort, an internal sense of uneasiness.
Feel that. Welcome the experience of it, instead of trying to make it stop or go away.
Allow the sensations to move through your body. Allow your breath to flow in the most expansive way possible. The sensations and feelings once experienced will CHANGE. Fear no longer has you in its grip.
And there you go, doing the thing..the very thing you have known to do but couldn’t. Because fear is the energy stored as protection from unexperienced trauma, waiting to be utilized once a space of safety emerges.
Fear is our friend once befriended.
It doesn’t mean throwing caution to the wind.
It doesn’t mean licking sidewalks or booking a cruise when you’re broke.
Although at times we might be inspired to do “crazy things” because we are tuned into a moment when stepping waaaay out of how and who we have been is necessary to leap into who our Soul is calling us to BE.
What's actually crazy is living your life thinking *that thing* is more powerful than YOU.
For most of my years on Earth I was terrified to FEEL anything because I couldn’t. I wasn’t safe enough nor connected enough in my body. Even after receiving years of amazing modalities from some of the best practitioners.
This had me super caught up in hiding myself due to what other people thought. Only going half-in because “what if this doesn’t work,” and settling for potential because I didn’t have faith that God would meet me with who I longed to be.
I was not living as the authentic me I knew was inside and somehow couldn’t access consistently. People close to me and who cared enough to be honest wondered why. Especially when everything I was “preaching” squarely laid in contradiction to what I was actually doing.
I was diagnosed with cancer right after I graduated from chiropractic college. Before that, in graduate school I became so sick I could barely get through a day without propping it up chemically with caffeine, daily body work, and other hacks.
The problem that was “cancer” actually helped me “figure it out” because it led me to my body. That “problem” changed my life.
I want you to be able to go full out like I have the gift of living now. By the way, what it means to go “full out” is much different than what it meant to me when I was ill. More on that in another post.
So what does living full out mean?
There is a lot to feel, courage to flex, and at times it can feel hard.
But that is nothing compared to the “hard” of staying small or being a mutation of who you really are, not knowing what you’re really here for.
THAT is f-ing hard.
It will keep you up at night, make your body have strange illnesses, and maybe make you have to come back here to Earth again.
Don’t waste this ride.
There are many ways to get to the mountaintop indeed. We know as we have utilized them. If Elemental Embodiment Exploration is a way you haven't experienced, and if this speaks to you, then check it out.
The mountain is calling. Your life is in your literal hands.
GENiUS EMBODIED will call your hands to the places on your body that will free you from your trauma and point you in the direction of your purpose.
GENiUS EMBODIED is the course that will CHANGE THE COURSE OF YOUR LIFE. It’s the very practices we use with ourselves, our clients, and hundreds of others.
Click here to make your move. We’ll see you at the party at the top.
