4 steps to using meditation to overcome fear in the wake of a trauma
, I looked for where the sensations of fear were strongest in my body and honed in to sense:There was a strangling feeling in my heart—squeezing, aching, hollow. I placed my hand on my heart, and, breathing with the fear, I located the very epicenter of the pain. It was at the raw edge of that pulsing, aching hollowness. Surrendering all resistance, I opened fully to the waves of fear as they arose and passed. I could feel my heart opening to ask what this deep, vulnerable place most needed.
After the RAIN, I sat in stillness… simply resting in the field of loving presence. Fear lingered... though held by love, it was less intense. It no longer felt like “my” fear about the virus. Rather, it was the world’s fear—the pain of the world that we all carry. And like waves on the surface of a great ocean, the fear moved within a vast and tender awareness.
And then, along with the fear inside me, I could also hear the calling of the geese and the sound of the river flowing around the rocks below me. The suffering in the world that called my heart was real, and so was the wild beauty of this life. Before the pandemic, we felt the reality of pain and loss, and we will continue to do so when this crisis has passed. Always, the secret to healing is to feel the pain fully and bathe it in love. This opens us to the loving awareness that can embrace both loss and joy, the wholeness of Being that is our true home.
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