Excerpt from Isssue 13 Spring 2011
Rooted in Groundlessness: Embracing Fear in Changing Times
by Sinéad McAteer RPP
The Earth element resonates with the polarities of safety and fear. Safety in the material sense is felt as the need for food and shelter, job security, and so on. The focus today is on inner safety. How we cultivate a sense of inner safety and feeling at home in our own beingness. As this grows, we find that attachment to objects in the outer world is reduced. We realise that we don’t need anything much out there to stay fixed in order for us to feel safe. This realisation helps us to accept the ever-changing nature of life as we find out that the only constant is change. Right now, many people have a sense of the ground shifting beneath their feet. We are challenged to come to a deeper awareness of who we are beyond the old structures and securities. Greater inner peace and inner security are possible when we learn to fully embrace fear. As the emotional barriers created by fear are dissolved, we can open and create the sincere and loving connections we truly need.
Faces of Fear
There are some profound fears that seem to be universal to the human experience – fear of rejection, fear of not being good enough, fear that we are not loveable, fear that there is something inherently wrong with us that we must keep secret. Fear of the dark - our shadow side, equally we may fear the light - our own power and potential. In addition, a certain type of fear has become apparent to me over the years, which I call an abject fear of the feminine. The feminine being the interior world, deep knowing, instinct, intuition, feeling, spirit, sensuality, and mystery. This kind of fear has many layers. It is reflected firstly in the neglect and dismissal of the feminine aspect of oneself, secondly in the oppression and abuse of women worldwide through the ages, and thirdly in the mistreatment of the generous body of mother earth herself. These are all inextricably linked. As we face this kind of fear in ourselves so I believe it is possible to heal it at all levels of manifestation. cont......
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