All Healing is the Release From Fear

Something worth noting, and also something that’s sooo not a big deal is that anxiety is sure to come up in your psychedelic ceremony.

You can count on it. 

Fear not. 

The question is not: How can I make it to where I don't feel anxiety? 
The better question is: Can I handle it?? 

Can I handle whatever is coming up? 
Can I handle my emotions? 
Can I handle my thoughts? 
Can I handle reality? 

That's it. Clean. Complete. Nothing extra.

• All healing is the release from fear.

• And you don’t fix it — you meet it.

This is the medicine. It’s somatic, not conceptual. It avoids getting stuck in the courtroom of the mind and speaks directly to the nervous system:

A simple technique: 

• breathe

• relax the jaw

• soften the face

• drop the shoulders

• hand to heart

• Say to yourself “I am wholly safe”

And then the key move — Don’t believe what you said, don’t affirm it, but check it: “Is it true?”

“I am wholly safe”.... “At this moment, is it true?”
”Outside my thoughts, outside my story, outside concepts, is it true?

And almost always — quietly, plainly — it is!!

This is not self-soothing in the childish sense. This is not bypassing. This is not positive psychology. This is full-on self-contact. You’re not convincing yourself of safety; you’re noticing that danger is generally only ever imagined, remembered, or anticipated — AND NOT HERE IN REALITY

That’s worth saying again:  
Danger is generally only ever imagined, remembered, or anticipated — AND NOT HERE IN REALITY

What’s beautiful is how non-dramatic this is. No story about what’s missing. No fixing relationships. No Analyzing our childhood.

Just simple awareness of reality. 
Just presence dissolving fear. 

Take a breath, hand to heart, "I AM WHOLLY SAFE."

The attached audio is to help us know what to do and how to be when anxiety strikes.

The Guest House
by Rumi

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing,
and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.