noelani

...Fear is the prison of the heart...

At meditation yesterday the dharma talk was about fear. We were paired up with a partner, and we had to (for 5 minutes) tell the other person what we feared. The other person was just there to listen, not give advice or opinions just listen. Sounds like an easy task huh? Try it and then tell me how it goes. It's not easy. Especially because, at least from what I've noticed, that a lot of people have a fear of opening up and letting their walls down. Fear of judgment. I found it quite liberating to voice my fears, and surprisingly I found out that I'm NOT the only one who is afraid of what I'm afraid of. In fact, my fears are quite common.

So, I thought I'd share my fears with you since it felt so good last night. Try it, tell me what you fear.

I am afraid of:

Letting people down.
Disappointment
Failure (I found a really good quote though on Failure: "I have not failed, I've found 10,000 ways that won't work"...Thomas Edison)
Being alone
Being with people
Not measuring up
Sounding or being made out to be unintelligent
Causing pain to the people I love
growing up
not progressing
making the wrong decisions
being unsure of me
trusting me
being happy
losing (everything: people, love, out)
being to afraid to do the things that I want.
Fear is my biggest fear of all.

There's some others....

Sooo, what's your fear?

I you.

Kisses

Oh, and I love fafi.