I write this article at a most packed and overwhelming point in November 2009 for me and apparently around the
entire globe as all kinds of pressure points continue to mount. But that's just why I'm calling time out and doing this
right now. The fear is being felt right now. It's holding me back right now. It's making me nervous and frantic and
has me wringing my hands. It's making the world nervous and frantic right now and has it collectively jumping
to some of the most skewed and counterproductive conclusions possible. It's time to deal with the fear. Right now.

Fear sucks. It literally, by definition, sucks. It sucks the life out of you and me. It sucks the fun out of life itself.
It sucks out the joy and blows disconcerting and distorting smoke in its place.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's best known quote is quite likely, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." I think that
may have been pretty dang perfectly accurate in that particular age of fear and denial. Today -- in this very different
age of fear and denial -- I feel we've evolved at least enough that it may be more accurate to say, "The only thing we
have to fear is not feeling our fear." It is in the process of feeling, acknowledging, owning, and expressing ANY
overwhelming feeling that melts it away. A feeling of being okay then returns. As does the ability to call things
the way they really, truly are.

Fear and its favorite mask and all-in-one tool, guilt, are simply bullies on the playground. Simple as that.
The real truth is that fear is afraid of being found out for the NOTHING that it is!

Now before we all slide off on some other terribly unbalanced tangent,
let's be clear that EVERY emotion brings us valuable information.
Raw fear, upon being felt, serves the purpose of alerting us to take action. TO TAKE ACTION... not to cover our head
and hide under the bed in the hopes it'll just go away. Sometimes the action is quite passive like simply taking
time out, clearing our head, and gaining perspective. At other times we need to jump to our feet and
leap over a fence or two and get somewhere out of harm's way.

The face of fear that's afraid of being found out, though, is the one that says, "Oh, please, you moron. You KNOW you
could never jump that fence. Do yourself a favor, give it up, count your losses, and don't embarrass yourself." As soon
as this kind of thinking and feeling gets us in a headlock, it's time to just play possum right then and there in fear's grip.
It's time to acknowledge we feel licked and inadequate. That we FEEL that way. And let's not stop there. NOW what do
we feel? And how about now? Perhaps we need to find a setting that won't thrust others into any fear and then let
out some sounds that FEEL like whatever's rumbling around inside. The view DOES begin to shift.
Our true reality of courage and hope DOES start to shine through those parting storm clouds.

You can be sure you've gotten to the real truth of any matter as soon as you find a peaceful and reassuring way of seeing it.
That's not to say there aren't obstacles to work around or things to be carefully considered beforehand, but peace runs
through the whole scenario somehow. Give this whole "feeling" process a try next time fear and his fair weather friends
come to the playground. You'll see firsthand who stays and what goes.

-- Rob Moore


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