Episode 117 - You Are Safe

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hey everybody michael gunger here welcome to the liturgists podcast this week is thanksgiving so we don't have a full episode this week but we thought we'd give you something anyway this is a meditation actually that we recorded for our patrons patrons are the people who make this show possible if you're interested in being a patron you can go to the liturgists.com and you'll find a link there to join and there's bonus podcasts and meditations and all sorts of stuff that you can get as a patron but this is one of the weekly meditations that we record uh one of my favorites that's been done in a while was done by my partner lisa and it's a beautiful meditation about fear and it's called you are safe so i hope you enjoy it all the love happy thanksgiving [Music] hi liturgists lisa here it is a privilege to do this meditation with you today a little while back a combination of body meditations and therapy began excavating years of programming and trauma for me and like a floodgate opening fear came barreling out i had never thought of myself as a fearful person but now that i was trying to move forward i could clearly see how fear navigated so many of my steps sometimes it felt like too much i wanted to quit all the reasons why i should be afraid were relentless whispering to me every time i took a step in the direction of my own heart sometimes fear had a specific face but other times i noticed all that was happening was fear of the fear of the fear so i began to sit with fear i let it sit in front of me and see it for what it is in the sitting its face began to change not with force but with just noticing seeing it for what it was ramdas says fear is the result of getting stuck in the middle the results of ignorance i came across a passage that has helped me tremendously it's from a man named immanuel i'll read the passage three times and i invite you to find a comfortable position you can close your eyes if you'd like let your body hear what it needs to hear does the voice of fear whisper to you fear speaks to you in logic and reason it assumes the language of love itself fear tells you i want to make you safe love says you are safe fear says give me symbols give me frozen images give me something i can rely on loving truth says only give me this moment fear would walk you on a narrow path promising to take you where you want to go [Music] love says open your arms and fly with me every moment of your life you are offered the opportunity to choose love or fear to tread the earth or soar the heavens why would fear want to oppose truth because truth has the power to transform fear fear believes it is fighting for its life [Music] i want to say something about the subtle inroads fear can make in our lives if you no longer allow fear to step blatantly before you and shout of cataclysm it will creep behind you and whisper something reasonable in your ear beware of reasonable rational thinking reasonable supposition dao is the rabbit's foot of fear ask your higher wisdom if it is not true without worry you would have arrived exactly where you are right now and more pleasantly worry and fear are not tickets on the express train they are extra baggage you are going that way anyway [Music] love says you are safe the second time reading through this passage if you're comfortable with doing this i invite you to take notice of what it is you are afraid of and hold that in your mind as you hear these words again not in judgment not pushing it away or pushing it down not combating it or facing ahead on just noticing what the fear is and remember you are safe [Music] what does the voice of fear whisper to you [Music] fear speaks to you in logic and reason it assumes the language of love itself fear tells you i want to make you safe love says you are safe fear says give me symbols give me frozen images give me something i can rely on loving truth says only give me this moment [Music] fear would walk you on a narrow path promising to take you where you want to go says open your arms and fly with me every moment of your life you are offered the opportunity to choose love or fear to tread the earth or soar the heavens why would fear want to oppose truth because truth has the power to transform fear fear believes it is fighting for its life i want to say something about the subtle inroads fear can make in your lives if you no longer allow fear to step blatantly before you and shout of cataclysm it will creep behind you and whisper something reasonable in your ear beware of reasonable rational thinking reasonable supposition doubt is the rabbit's foot of fear ask your higher wisdom if it is not true without worry you would have arrived exactly where you are right now and more pleasantly worry and fear are not tickets on the express train they are extra baggage you were going that way anyway fear tells you i want to make you safe love says you are safe okay now for the third time through and this time notice if your body feels different is there less tension when you hold that thing that you are or were afraid of has it softened and if so where do you feel that in your body what does the voice of fear whisper to you fear speaks to you in logic and reason it assumes the language of love itself fear tells you i want to make you safe love says you are safe says give me symbols give me frozen images give me something i can rely on loving truth says only give me this moment fear would walk you on a narrow path promising to take you where you want to go love says open your arms and fly with me [Music] every moment of your life you are offered the opportunity to choose love or fear to tread the earth or soar the heavens why would fear want to oppose truth because truth has the power to transform fear fear believes it is fighting for its life i want to say something about the subtle inroads fear can make in your lives if you no longer allow fear to step blatantly before you and shout of cataclysm it will creep behind you and whisper something reasonable in your ear [Music] beware of reasonable rational thinking reasonable supposition doubt is the rabbit's foot of fear ask your higher wisdom if it is not true without worry would you have arrived exactly right where you are right now and more pleasantly [Music] worry and fear are not tickets on the express train they are extra baggage you were going there anyway fear says i want to make you safe love says you are safe fear will tell you i want to make you safe but love says you are safe you are safe you my love are safe [Music] [Music] [Music] you