The Original Fear

We can consider our birth to be the Original Fear. Now, as you’re reading this I'm sure you don't remember your birth. So how could it have been a fear? 

Well, we know that like the iceberg, so much is taking place in our unconscious mind, and our birth is there as a memory. It did forge some kind of connections. There was a sensorial experience, and it was registered by the brain.

And if you really think about that –  going from being in utero, in the womb, protected, warm, fed, fully protected, comfortable – and then thrust out into this world, this rude awakening. It was bright. It was loud.

Uncomfortable. Cold. Our food and air is cut off. We can't breathe. We have to struggle to take our first breath.

Imagine going through that as an adult. I think any of us would be absolutely terrified. Imagine now as a newborn what that experience might have been.

We look again at what our brains are experiencing – viscerally, sensorially, no language, just what's the body doing – and the brain kicks into survival mode. 

That is the Original Fear. 

And in a sense, our whole life after that is about coming back to that comfort, coming back to that warmth, coming back to that love that we once knew.

It's a very powerful subconscious program. And something that we really can meditate on and connect very deeply with. Finding that reconnective nurturing between the whole universe now, taking over that role that we had in utero.

But a conversation about fear would not be complete without talking about death. Death, of course, being the ultimate underlying fear. On some level, we will end when our death comes, whenever that is. 

And while the physicality of death destroys us, right, the fear has more to do with the fact that we're even aware that we will die.