Fast forward #FEAR a few years. I'd returned to Tucson with a diagnosis of "CFS" (aka M.E.). Not exactly a helpful or a real diagnosis, but a persistent set of common symptoms showing up in a lot of people testing negative for HIV/AIDS. This is how I found BBSs > Internet > Web!
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I met a woman a few years my elder. She'd been born with a congenital heart disease. She had what isi known as xenotransplantation. A pig's heart in place of her diseased one. She was inspirational and wise beyond lifetimes. She talked to me about #FEAR and role played a process.
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The roleplay process that almost completely eradicated #FEAR for me in a matter of hours to this day is this.
1. Take a chair and place it in front of you.
2. Imagine or use a doll/pillow/whatever works to anthropomorphiize FEAR
3. THANK FEAR FIRST
4. ASK FEAR TO NOT PERSIST
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I did this several times, saying a variety of things (well, yelling at times lol). She hugged me and told me she loved me. Sadly, she left us all too soon, but she has never left me. Her love and wisdom halted overwhelming fear. We eradicated #FEAR beyond its flight or fight use.
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One issue remained unresolved for me, and that was the question of how #FEAR lead to love. We all see how fear leads to hatred, to anger - a lot of negative emotion. But real love? It's taken years, but I recognize this week how it played out for me.
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When we truly look #FEAR in the face, we must also learn to manage all those negative feelings. No matter the belief system, the pervasive message and instinct in my head had to do with #FORGIVENESS - and not just one or two but ALL including ourselves.
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I will help as I am able. First: Do you have access to medical care of quality and if so have you been looked at medically? Second: Do you have access to progressive behavioral health care and if so, have you been evaluated and/or diagnosed? Finally: Are you on meds of any kind?
Apr 10, 2020 · 11:13 PM UTC