Meditation for Fear

Monsters Under the Bed by Marc Gilson

When I was four years old, I was convinced that there was a monster living under my bed. I didn't know what he looked like, or what he sounded like. But as far as I was concerned, he was there, quietly residing right beneath me while I tried to get my beauty sleep. I was pretty sure he would reach out and get me if I carelessly allowed my leg to dangle off the edge of my bed.

Never mind that I had boxes of toys stuffed under my bed and that no monster of any intimidating size could possibly fit there. It didn't matter a bit that during the day I would frequently go to retrieve a toy from under my bed without once confronting a monster. And who cares if my mother, the human being I have always trusted the most, assured me time and again that no monster lived under my bed.

In spite of all that, I believed the monster was there.

So what was I afraid of? There was absolutely no concrete evidence of a monster. I had no direct experience of anything monster-like under my bed. And there was a ton of evidence to show that there simply was no monster there at all.

But the fear was real. What I was afraid of was not a monster at all, but the perception of a monster. In spite of all the facts, I was attached to the feeling -- the perception -- that a monster was there, and that's what mattered to me.

Often, what's important in our lives has nothing to do with what really"is" but rather what we believe to be. We've all heard the saying, "we create our own reality." And we do that based on our perceptions of reality. But how often does it really occur to us that our perceptions of reality may not really reflect the truth?

I'm not just talking about monsters here. What about your perceptions of your own reality? How much of what you believe is possible in your life is limited by fears founded on false perceptions?

Perhaps you want to be financially successful, but haven't managed to achieve that. Why? Is there a monster under your bed? Is the monster a fear of failure? Fear of risk? Or perhaps even a fear of the changes success would have on your life?

Does the dream of having a fulfilling relationship elude you? Is there a monster lurking somewhere in your life that causes you to fear intimacy? Do you fear feeling vulnerable or being hurt by someone you care about?

Perhaps you know that these fears aren't rooted in reality. You know better than to believe in them. Yet the fears keep you from realizing these wishes. They concretize in your mind as reality, even though they're really just fear-based perceptions. How many of us are victims of our own fears? To get to what's real in life, we have to simultaneously face and let go of our fear. Sounds tough. But it can be done.

As people progress through the Centerpointe meditation for fear program, they often awaken to the fact that much of their lives has been structured around these fear-based perceptions, and that much of their sense of self-worth, success, and satisfaction has been hindered by these perceptions.
Confronting this fact isn't always easy. No one wants to discover that the core elements of their world view are rooted in false, fear-based perceptions.

In his outstanding book, The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz speaks of the drive we have to search-out the truth and get in touch with something we can call, with certainty, "reality."

"All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty. We are on an eternal search for the truth because we only believe in the lies we have stored in our mind."

When you're engaged in a deep meditation program, like the Centerpointe meditation for fear program, it's possible to get in direct contact with these lies Ruiz mentions. The problem is that we really don't want to discover that the internal protocol -- the programming inside our own minds -- is untrue. Although truth can set us free, coming to terms with the fact that what we thought was the truth simply isn't true at all can shake our sense of
self. So we resist the very process that would lift the veil of illusion and show us what we claim to seek. In other words, we hide from monsters that aren't really there. We hide from our own perceptions.

Another reason we hide from them is because we don't feel equipped to deal with them. We feel stuck, because even though we know we're being held hostage by our own fears, we don't seem to have the courage to face them. So how do we go about equipping ourselves to face our fears? One way is to raise our threshold for what makes us feel fearful. That means
challenging the status quo in terms of how we view life and the world around us. It also means being willing to risk the loss of our fear-based perceptions in exchange for a chance at true fulfillment.

Until we are able to recognize, accept, heal and release our fears, a kind of division will remain between the kind of life we wish to live, and the life we feel unhappily tethered-to. Deep meditation, especially when done using a powerful neural driver like Holosync, can provide us with an opportunity to heal these fears.

Here's a quote from a Centerpointe Participant from Australia who had been listening to his Holosync meditation cd soundtracks for about eight months:

"This meditation program has jolted me into the realization that all my excuses for not living the life I have wanted are due to my own fears. And the bugger of it is that these are fears that are based in nothing other than more fear...As I conquer my fear I find myself entirely open to life...a feeling I have never known until now."

Fear-based perceptions often line the path of personal growth work. But once we deal directly with the fear, the perceptions transform themselves from hideous monsters into gentler creatures. What it takes is an open-minded willingness to be in the same emotional and mental space with our monsters. Invite them in. Offer them a seat. And remember that no self-respecting monster will stay long. More importantly,
remember that these monsters are nothing other than fear-based
perceptions on their way out of your life.

Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki once said that the road to Enlightenment leads directly through our fears. We are often content to live our lives in avoidance or denial of our fears, not realizing that the keys to our own advancement - as individuals and as humanity - is in recognizing, engaging, and releasing our fears.Holosync is really a perfect tool for dealing with fear-based perceptions. Beyond simply getting you in-touch with them, Holosync meditation for stress also drives up your threshold for finding the strength to accept and release them as well.

We all have our monsters under the bed. On one level we know they aren't really there. The trick, then, is to work that knowledge into our daily lives. By eliminating these fear-based perceptions, we experience a true liberation of our spirit and an empowerment of our will; a will no longer stifled and kept huddled under the covers by monsters that aren't really there.

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