ShadowEmotions

Underneath it all I believe that fear, as well as, any emotion can be a great teacher. I think I understand the higher possibility or spiritual dimension of fear. Fear can open the doors of compassion and what the Buddhist philosophy tells us over and over again is that we are interconnected with all things. Nothing is empty of its own being; it is in a constant flux of arising and falling phenomenon. If further explored one can reveal and understand the preciousness of the human life form and how rare it is to be born as a human. This is powerful for me to remember and very healing. Another wonder antidote to fear is the cultivation of compassion, which I find when I am practicing yoga and metta. I have experienced the power of transforming not the emotion itself, but my relationship to the emotion without repressing it.