How Fear Makes Our Mind, Body, and Soul Sick
When our spirits first incarnated into these bodies, we experienced everything as love. There was no questioning that love was around us and within us at all times. Yet as we grew older we began learning about ourselves through our experiences with others and through the tyrannical lens of comparison. Our minds and hearts that once rested in the resonance of abundance soon became overwhelmed and constricted by the constricting resonance of scarcity and fear.
Fear is anchored in the resonance of scarcity and erodes our health at the level of mind, body, and soul. When we are living in a scarcity mindset, there remains an underlying question of whether we are getting enough, doing enough, or whether we will ever be enough just as we are. If the message of lack and insufficiency is carried into our bodies via our nervous system, our stress hormones switch our sympathetic nervous system into overdrive. Over time this perpetual state of hypervigilance causes physiologic disruptions in our digestive health as well as the functioning of our organ systems resulting in hormonal and metabolic imbalances that may appear as weight gain, hot flashes, hypoglycemia, irritable bowel syndrome, and immune suppression.
When our minds are bathed in fear, we tend to see the world through the lens of fear, where everything and everyone is a potential threat to our growth and wellbeing. We remain in fight-flight-freeze mode losing our internal sense of freedom and are likely to begin experiencing anxiety and/or depression.
When we feel that we are without protection from (perceived) harm, it is not just our minds and our bodies that become sick. Over time, our souls also become sick because we start to question our own ability to survive. We may experience an internal deadening and a deeper depression where we feel as though we are in the depths of despair with no way out.
The most powerful antidote to fear is love.
Whereas fear is anchored in the resonance of scarcity, love is anchored in the resonance of abundance. When our minds are bathed in love, we see the world through a lens of love, where everything and everyone is here to support our growth and wellbeing. Love strengthens our nervous system so that we can appropriately move through our daily life in “rest and digest mode” and restore hormone balance, healthy digestion, and proper weight management. Without the need to produce cortisol in endless amounts, our immune systems remain strong allowing us to not only fight off chronic infections and ward off autoimmune disease.
Anchoring in love is not always easy but is so rewarding to our minds, our bodies, and our souls. Because the idea of scarcity is so deeply embedded within our culture, we must learn to cultivate a fearless culture within ourselves that calls us to practice radical self-love and self-acceptance. Doing so gives us the power to dispel our fears of rejection and our “not enough” stories so that we are able to experience an abundant level of energy, joy, and passion in our bodies, hearts, and souls.
Step by step and choice by choice, we can choose to courageously align with love rather than fear. Choosing to have our lives be led by the power of love calls us to live from our hearts. Living from our heart calls us to quiet our shame-based mind chatter and to identify with ourselves not by what we have achieved but by who we are at our very core. We put more attention on who we are and who we are becoming than what we have achieved and what we will achieve in the future.
Perhaps all we need to do to live a vibrant happy and healthy life is to consciously choose love when we are in the face of fear. And to make that choice again, and again, and again.
Sounds simple, right? Maybe it is.