When I heard the high-pitched cry outside the window, I felt some alarm, so stepped outdoors to listen again. To me, the cry sounded like the raspy voice of a woman in distress.
Because I live on the side of a mountain that has road and a lookout view point high above the house, I worried that the cry might be from someone calling for help. To get a better look up the hill, I walked south of the house, following a small path that the dogs use to explore the brambles.
Then I heard it again, that same cry. And farther up the hill, my eye caught the flash of a red tail as a fox darted into the bush. The source of the alarm was the fox. I’ve since learned that the high pitched cry of the fox is a cry of hunger … and is intended to cause nearby animals to shake with fear.
For its wary prey, the cry of the fox is intended to cause fear and trembling, so that perhaps the tiny blades of grass hiding a mouse will move and give away its hiding place. The cry can also trigger the release of the smell of fear by those being hunted. The fox will follow this smell to its source and perhaps its dinner.
We humans, like the fox who shares this mountain backyard with me, live in a "sea of force fields." While we no longer use these senses to hunt for food, or run from a predator, they still affect everything we do. Unconscious or not, we are always "turned on," and tuned in.
Interconnected, our mind absorbs and alters everything around it at all times. The energy generated by thoughts of love creates attraction. A smile attracts a smile in return. (Try it.)
When we think fearful thoughts, we repel. A dog will wag its tail for a person who greets it with a friendly voice and an open hand. However, the person who responds with fear, will trigger a similar reaction and a bark from the dog.
As the lesson of the fox shows: we must live free of fear. When fear no longer triggers a reaction in us, when it no longer pushes away what we want most in life, we will be truly free. Free of fear, we will flow swiftly foward with the Divine Purpose for our life.
How do you live free of fear? How do you overcome it in your daily life?
The best way I've learned to handle fear is to sit down and have a cup of tea with my fears. I invite them to join me in my meditations. As soon as I hear a knock on the door…. fear calling…perhaps even the sensation of a tightened belly or stiffness somewhere in my body, I say "come in".
I sit down with myself in a sort of meditative space and I have a conversation. Even if I am very busy, or out for dinner with someone I will excuse myself— perhaps go to the bathroom or even just close my eyes for a minute and say to my fear "What is this about?"
When fear is not hiding in the dark but invited into the light and given a warm cup of tea it melts sometimes into sadness or tenderness. This is lovely… to see sometimes where we are most vulnerable and to accept what we can not be in control of. We smile and relax and breath again and know that when we see something for what it really is we are free to choose a path that is not based on unconscious reflex but a more enlightened intention.
We let go of the need for gravity and have fun floating about, no where to go, no where we must be and completely a free of fear. Fear is usually a close friend of ignorance so we must enlighten ourselves to our own true nature and place. We must also learn to laugh at ourselves and to have humor with our circumstance… And practice makes perfect…. take time to practice being ungrounded, sitting in darkness, sitting in stillness, practice being bold… after a while fear melts into familiarity, awareness and hopefully peace.
Dear Alexia,
Its too beautiful. thanks for the fabulous post.
Wish you love, peace and happiness.
Trisha
Alexia Parks, Author
And in return, I clicked to read your latest poem and will carry it as an inspiration today.
Alexia Parks, Author
My daughter, I LOVE this…!!!!!! I plan to print it out and post it beside my computer. It will inform me daily.