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Let Go of Fear
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THE ART OF LETTING GO – A TRUE SELECTION OF AWAKENING EXPERIENCES PART III
This is my contribution to Barbara Franken’s A True Selection of Awakening Experiences Part III. Thank you, Barbara for including me!
The most dramatic changes I have experienced during my spiritual journey during the past seven years involved letting go. This process of letting go forced me to give up my past expectations, and the familiar patterns to become the person I am today.
My life began as child moving from relative to relative until I was eight years old. When I finally united with my parents, I was sexually, physically, and emotionally abused. During most of my childhood, I suffered post traumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. As a young adult, I wanted to end my life many times.
I began psychotherapy in college as I was involved with men who physically, sexually and emotionally abused and assaulted me that was similar to my family dynamic. I realized then that something was terribly wrong in my life.
In March, 2011, experienced an awakening during a meditation session that caused utter chaos and confusion in my life as I never heard of an awakening and was not particularly spiritual or religious. Thus, began my spiritual journey that transformed my life and soul path. I left my career to work with college students who have experienced sexual assault, domestic/dating violence, stalking, and sexual harassment. I left my marriage that was not serving or understood my higher path and calling.
When I arrived at these colleges to work with college students, dramatic shifts began to take place there. Suddenly, Presidents were fired, Vice Presidents left, and high level administrators were terminated. In all these situations, I had no authority to remove or terminate them, but events began to occur around me and around the work I was doing.
Now, I am evolving to a third phase of my transformation in my life and soul path. I have been told that I am coming to the end of the second phase of my evolution. It is now time for me to share my professional and spiritual knowledge as I will assume the role of teacher/educator, and pass the direct service work with college students to the next generation. However, in order for me to evolve to this third phase, I must continue to let go.
My post today is to share with you the art of letting go. This is how I accomplish this:
- Set the intention that you want to evolve and move forward to the next phase of your life and soul path.
- Fear will begin to surface, and you may vacillate in your decision to move forward.
- Begin to change expectations that are old patterns. These expectations involve what you expect of yourself and others around you.
- Begin to let go of control and expectations of outcome, and allow the Infinite to guide you. Everything will turn out exactly as it is intended and best for you.
- As you proceed in this letting go, fear will repeatedly speak to you through your ego. You may hear that you will fail, it is too risky, and you have no guarantees. This will soon pass. Work through these fears by using Observing Ego Practice, an exercise that I use and share on my blog, Awakening Journey.
- Begin to change your behavior by actively preparing and moving toward your new intentions and ventures. Since I want to teach and educate others, I am seeking opportunities in this area and working very hard everyday toward this.
- Genuinely accept yourself and those things that you cannot control.
- Imagine in your mind of being successful in this new venture or life and feeling accomplished and happy. This will help you manifest this new future. Finally, live this life you have imagined.
May you let go of old patterns and evolve to the soul that you are meant to be. (Copyright 2018 Burrowing Owl Press/Brooke Chang with All Rights Reserved)
Steps to Healing Past Emotional Pain
During these past few months, I have been confronted with some deep seeded distrust as a result of my childhood abuse by and a philandering father. As an adult, I attracted men like my father into my life causing more emotional injury and trauma to my life. This has translated into distrust of men that is deeply ingrained within me. These past emotional injuries resulted in deep blockages within my sacral and heart chakras. In my attempts to unblock these chakras, I have tried the following methods:
- Letting go what you can’t control and letting go of past emotions and behaviors through intention, belief, and actions
- Awareness of triggering thoughts, events, and statements by simply observing them without reaction
- Acknowledge your fears through stating them out loud or writing them down
- Forgive yourself and others for past mistakes and failures by accepting your past
- Learning to love yourself through self care, setting healthy boundaries with others, and nurturing yourself
At the root of distrust is the lack of self love and fear. When we fear betrayal and being hurt again, we have not forgiven ourselves and others for injuring us. We have not learned to love ourselves through setting clear and healthy boundaries with others, and taking responsibility for and control of our actions that are forms of self love.
When we learn to let go of the past through clear intentions that we no longer want certain emotions and behaviors in our lives, we follow up with the belief that we can and will change them, then follow through with consistent change in our actions. Good luck with healing your past emotional pain. (Copyright 2017 with All Rights Reserved)
Moving Through Fear
Fear is like waves on the ocean that come in ebbs and flows. This is what I have been experiencing after a recent argument with my Twin Flame. His behaviors triggered my past injury that felt so painful that I reacted in a way I have not reacted in over 15 years. I thought that injury was healed, but I am realizing that I still am emotionally wounded.
This emotional wound causes me to behave with distrust, jealousy, and fear of betrayal. I also realized and acknowledge that this wound is within me. I believe that my twin and I share similar emotional wounds causing us to trigger each other, and share the same fear of being injured again. I have been observing my thoughts and feelings as these waves of fear hit me.
Last night, I admitted to my Twin Flame my deepest fear of no longer being young and pretty as I age. My fear is that someday in the near future, he will trade me in for a newer and younger woman. Just saying these words out loud made my fears dissipate. It connected me deeply with my Twin to share such vulnerability and deep seeded fear of unworthiness and lack.
Fear is the voice that prevents us from being injured again, but it also is the voice that prevents us from moving forward in our lives. It keeps us stuck in the same emotionally wounded place as when we first were wounded by someone we love. Facing our fears is the first step to dissipating this fear, and taking away its power to rule our lives. May you overcome your deepest fears. (Copyright 2017 Awakening Journey with All Rights Reserved)
Fear of Loss
I believe everyone has fears of loss and abandonment, and that is one of my emotional issues. My mother left me when I was one years old, and my father never met me until I was eight. During my formative years (1-6 years old), I experienced abandonment. After my mother and father left Taiwan for the U.S., I was left with my maternal grandparents, and when they left for the U.S., I remained with my paternal grandparents until I was eight years old. This left deep scars within me.
During my past life recollections, I remember my mother died when I was a young native American boy in another lifetime. Yet in another lifetime, I recall my father abandoning my mother, sister, and me as I watched him drive away in his truck from our family farm. These traumas involving abandonment remain with my soul to the present day.
I recently entered into a romantic relationship, I believe, finally with my twin flame/soul. These old memories and emotional wounds still haunt me. As I proceed with my love, I fear him leaving me or loving another. These fears still plaque me in my heart as I earlier attracted many other men who did leave me and love another. This time, I realize that I must live beyond my ego filled with fear and doubt.
I currently use Observing Ego Practice to cope with these fears, but something is different this time. As he has been away in China this last week, I am beginning to feel a shift within me. I am missing him less and less each day as the week progresses, and I know you will think, this is terrible. Quite the contrary, in my aloneness, I prove to myself that I am never alone and that I can be independent and care for myself. I am freeing myself of co-dependency or attachment.
It is through unconditional love that I am with this man, and not because I depend on him for my existence. When I am alone now, I know that my life can continue with or without him, and that all will be okay. We can’t control when others will leave us, love another, or die, but I know I will be fine even if that comes to fruition. Even if my twin abandons me, I know my soul will still move forward as I am never truly alone. (Copyright 2017 Awakening Journey with All Rights Reserved).
Working through Community Trauma
As I enter my my second month of work at a new university, I have been observing signs of community trauma. I believe that every human on earth has unresolved trauma. Trauma can range from experiencing a car accident to the death of a loved one or a divorce to childhood abuse. Most people have unresolved trauma, and currently living with some form of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
I believe our personal traumas can be further worsened or aggravated by community trauma, and those who have less trauma will further experience secondary trauma from others in the community. Something traumatic happened to this community, and now they are operation 24/7 under fight or flight mode of existence. These people must live such horrible existences in fear, distress, and triggered trauma.
As I enter this work environment, I am checking on my ego constantly as everyone is operating in perceived fear and crisis mode, and triggering others through secondary trauma. All decisions must be made by consensus in group of six or more. Nearly the entire university is operating its programs in fear or crisis mode, and is unaware of what is happening. The students are feeling the distress, fear, and trauma too.
I have become the calm voice and person in the turbulent storm attempting to calm their fears and distress. Outsiders who deal with us cannot understand why nothing is working and everyone is fighting amongst each other. I try to calm their fears with much difficulties as each person is triggering others directly or through secondary trauma.
I asked the Infinite for help and what I should do. I am told to love them despite not liking these people very much as they will distort the truth, lie, and cheat in fear of getting into trouble. I am told that I must hold these people accountable for what they do, but must empower them to live at their highest potential.
My conversation with the Infinite is that I will try for one year to see how much progress I can make, then I will move forward to others who are ready to do the hard work of emotional recovery, healing, and growth. I believe that I am destined to help those who are ready to help themselves. I ask the Infinite for guidance, strength, and patience along my journey forward. (Copyright 2017 Awakening Journey with All Rights Reserved)
Building Trust
As many of my readers know about my history, my father was a philanderer who lied to my family to hide his philandering. As an adult, I became attracted to philanderers and liars. My resulting adult life was filled with angst of distrusting men and suspicious of their intentions and actions. In the recent past, a man I dated brought many of these fears to the surface. While dating me, he was involved with countless other women and passed a deadly sexually transmitted disease to me and other women. This relationship really shook me and caused me to shy away from sex all together.
On this phase of my journey, I am attempting to overcome my distrust of men. First, I am aware of my feelings of distrust caused by my past experiences. In my current relationship, I am dealing with these waves of fear of being hurt and lied to again in my life. As these waves come over me, I allow them to release without reacting to them. I realize that all men have women friends as long we have a solid relationship, those other women do not bother me.
With philandering men, I notice that their attention and time are frequently redirected to the interest of other women at the expense of passing up time with me. As I am an intuit, I know when someone is lying to me, or attempting to deceive me. I frequently have confronted them to their dismay.
Every man deserves a chance. However, once they stray then I move on as I believe I deserve so much better. I don’t need leftovers as there are many fish in the sea. If we don’t demand better treatment, then we will never receive better treatment. This is what I have learned the hard way. (Copyright 2017 Awakening Journey with All Rights Reserved)
Through Dreams
In my dreams last night, I said goodbye to those in my past who I will not have an opportunity to say goodbye as I move onto the next phase of my journey. In my dream, I spoke to each person separately saying my farewells. My interaction with these important individuals who I encountered on my journey either taught me lessons, tested me, or showed me truths about myself.
Although they are no longer in my life now, their contributions to my emotional healing and spiritual growth were necessary, and I thank them as I no longer harbor any animosity or ill will against them. We must be willing to let go of these relationships by understanding that they no longer lead somewhere as our time together have ended.
Letting go feels like a huge weight has lifted from my heart. My higher self tells me to let go, and don’t hang on because this letting go is necessary for me to move forward as I no longer need to carry such heavy baggage with me along my journey.
As I lighten my load on my journey, I gave away possessions, gave away valuables, and gave up emotional pain and hurt. The lightening of my load means to release, let go, and forgive myself and others. It is through this letting go that gives us peace and harmony, allows us to find happiness and joy, and attracts love and passion into our lives.
After giving up the people, places, and situations of my past, I shall finally find my dreams and peace, joy, and love will naturally flow into my life. I will finally get a second chance at my life. In 2017, may you find your dreams. (Copyright 2o16 Awakening Journey with All Rights Reserved)
Gratitude for 2017
I have much gratitude going into 2017 as there is so much to be grateful for in my life. I am grateful for all the doors that closed in my life and the many situtaions that did not turn out the way I wanted them. In retrospect, those people, opporutnities, and situations were never meant for me.
What I perceived initially as rejection or abandonment are really serendipity and synchronicity for my life. I did not enter into relationships, did not get job offers, and did not get selected for certain situations. Because of these missed opportunities, I had better opportunities waiting for me that is perfect for me and meant for me.
When we are occupied with the ego’s need to control outcomes whether they are relationships, careers, job opportunities, or other situations, our lives will constantly feel like a struggle. We lack abundance, have failed relationships, have unsuccessful careers, and generally fail to move forward.
Our ego does not know what is best for us, but our higher self does. Many of us still operate in the smaller self or ego so we continue to fight the path that is not meant for us, so our lives continue to feel like a huge uphill battle.
In my life now if something does not work out in the way that I hope, I always say to myself, “This is simply not meant for me. Something better is waiting for me.” I see my life now with a very bright horizon, and everything falling into place like a giant jigsaw puzzle. I no longer question the why, but simply accept what is meant for me, will come to me. (Copyrigth 2016 Awakening Journey with All Rights Reserved)
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