Managing Fear Fear is contagious. Like an out of control fire it consumes all that is in its path. Our sense of security, inner peace and serenity are challenged and compromised when confronted with outer evidence of loss and failure. It can be difficult to remain immune and unaffected by the present time collective state of financial and economic fear. Learning how to manage fear can be empowering. Instead of shrinking into a place of powerlessness it is possible to use the energy of fear to create new possibilities and opportunities Try these steps when you feel the fear monster lurking. Acknowledge and put a name to your feelings. Focus your awareness in the present moment and ask yourself if your needs are presently being met. Most of the time our fear is a projection of the "what if's", in the future. Recognize that with great change often comes fear. Greet fear as an opportunity for new perception, awareness, and creative possibilities Focus on an area of your life where you are experiencing fear. Imagine all of the possible outcomes and options of this situation . Close your eyes and create a mental picture of each imagined possibility. Concentrate on the outcome that helps you to relax and feel more peace. Imagine that the fear that you have been feeling in this situation is really just energy. Energy that can be transformed into the power of love. Ask your angels, spirit guides, or your higher self to help you to release the fear into a higher vibration, then let go and allow your fear to be transformed. Imagine that the fear is now love. Send this love as a beam of white light to the area of your life where you have felt fear. Affirm that the situation that has provoked fear from you has been worked out for your highest good. About the “Ghost-Busting” My partner and I went to the home where the home owner described some kind of spirit of disturbances to Sherrie. We went to see what, if anything, we could feel or “get” about the house – were there any ghosts, were they friendly, what was up? .....my first impression was before we even got to the house - I saw almost the exact house in my minds eye. I also had a feeling about porches, that there was something very special or different about the porches in this house. When we arrived, the home owner greeted us and was describing her hopes for the session, while not giving us any particular details. Almost immediately, and while she was still talking, we both felt several spirits. When my partner and I first entered the home, I felt a thin, shadowy man dressed in black hiding just beside/behind and facing the hinges of the door - we were on the first floor near the front door, and a lovely, busy, fairly short woman in a long dress and apron bustled past us into the owner’s home office. The owner led us first to that exact room; we filled the area with white light and said healing prayers. We felt the spirit still and had the sense of her as a grandmother figure. After spending some further meditation time in the office, we went down stairs into the basement area, and it felt kind of heavy, and I felt that the man (who was hiding behind the doors kind of facing the wall) did not like all of the children's "junk” in the space, like he thought there was too much confusion there (the basement space is a play room that is literally just stuffed with toys and stuffed toys from floor to ceiling). We repeated the above process, filling the room with white light and prayers. We talked about the children and the toys and tried to fill the room with the understanding that the children were playing and not trying to be disruptive in the hopes of guiding the spirit not to put negativity into the space (and scare the children) and asked him to stop moving things around. In my minds eye he became more like a dark shadow, and he left the room up the stairs. The space felt less “weighty” when we (and the shadowy man) left. Then we went upstairs to the second floor and there was a sense of like, spiritual weight as well, only even stronger - I had a sense of the shadowy man behind one particular door, but we went into the master bedroom first and again filled the space with white light etc. and it felt cleared out and better “in tune” when we stepped out. The stairs were odd - and I really felt pain and sadness right at the top of the steps leading to the downstairs, like someone had fallen and another other person tried, but could not stop or help them. After that first feeling in the stairway, we sat on the upper part of the stairs and my partner and I both felt the shadowy man in the hallway room. Suddenly, we felt him move and he went into the baby's room. The baby woke up immediately ad was crying. The home owner came upstairs and she and the baby and her husband went downstairs. After a few moments of personal meditation, we decided to work on the other rooms first including the hallway room because that felt very heavy and kind of swirly/dark. We again meditated and prayed, filling up the other rooms with white light, leaving the one we felt him in for last. I also kept seeing lots of beds with sick people in them in my minds eye in several of the rooms. Finally, after meditating and centering ourselves, we opened the last door. My partner and I both sensed the shadowy man, and while I surrounded him with white light I also started sending Reiki healing to him flowing from my hands. My partner mentally envisioned and spoke out loud what she described as a white light filled doorway to the other side that had opened. Now, one interesting observation is that I felt that the man could not turn his head to the right - like he was paralyzed, or had some kind of palsy, or maybe had had a stroke - and that felt like that was one reason he was confused and kept to the shadows and near the walls and behind doors – and a major reason why Reiki healing flowed to him and had kicked in on its own. He started towards the door, but was very slow and reticent. We spoke out loud as we prayed for loved ones to come and help him. We began to see a short woman and a tall man that he appeared to recognize came to the doorway to get him, but he was still slow and kind of timid... then, we felt a child come bouncing through the door, and I saw the child run out and he kind of helped push the shadowy man through the door into the light. The feeling in the house was interesting after that; it felt like the entire house took a deep breath and started to shine and even look and feel lighter and brighter.... We remained for a time in the hallway, still meditating and saying prayers (with Reiki healing still flowing) and the final thing that I felt/saw was the shadowy man, standing in the doorway, waving – he moved his head back and forth, now able to move his neck and head fully – I believe (and Sherrie validated the possibility) we were doing Reiki healing on the spirit, as his infirmity contributed to his confusion and kept him “stuck” at the house…. When we went down to the first level again, I was strongly drawn to an area and there was a really old radio..... and I felt, and mentally saw people coming and visiting that radio to hear the old tunes again – they felt like family and they would be dancing all around the room, making noise and moving things around (which the home owner said happened all the time when we described what we thought would happen). We mentioned to the home owner that there would certainly be noises around that area still, but they had nothing to do with the shadowy man. The home owner told us that the radio had been the property of her husband’s grandparents. Also, I sensed that his grandma comes to enjoy the not only the radio, but the present family sometimes. After we had spent time in every room, filling them with white light etc, we went outside and spent some time on the porch, as all of the back part of the house used to be porches but are now converted into living space - and there was still a feeling of kind of confusion there, but that became better too - In the end, we had a nice chat with the home owner, and we had felt many of the same things they had felt, and the positions of the man and the rooms were on track. Her children were spooked by a “shadowy man” that they saw on all levels of the home at times including one time he sat next to one of the children at dinner kind of freaking everyone out. They had often felt a maternal kind of figure who even made noise one night when one of the children had been ill, drawing the parents into the room. She also told us that the home was used as a place for patients to convalesce during one of the flu epidemics and also after WWI and perhaps were the reason the shadowy man was stuck in the house – perhaps he never left…. The previous owners had remodeled creating the “bonus playroom” downstairs and converting the porches to living space. Both my partner and I feel that the shadowy man was only confused and really had not meant to scare or harm the children. Also, we believe that at least one of the home owner’s 4 children is a sensitive, and may actually be drawing spirits to her. We feel very confident that at least the “shadowy man” has left the property – but there are others still there that just want to share the space for a time. .... it feels so wonderful to have been able to do this work!!! Thank you Sherrie, thank you for sending us this fantastic opportunity! |