What happens energetically when we allow fear into our lives?
Fear is a natural and instinctual reaction. It is an automatic response that saves us from immediate danger. Few realize however, how often fear dictates reactions when danger is not immediate, and what happens energetically when it does. 
Unlike our forefathers and mothers, we are much more susceptible to non-immediate fears because of our access to instant information. While our ancestors had to contend with more dangerous immediate environments, our fear reactions today are most often triggered by information from afar, through TV, social media and news-feeds, for example. Those who wish to manipulate our thinking know this and are eager to find ways to use this knowledge for their own advantage.
What happens when we allow this kind of fear to overwhelm us?
Fear closes us down energetically. It robs us of our inner resources.
When you measure people’s energy fields in states of relaxation, their energy is expansive and spread out around them. When people are afraid, they unconsciously retract their energy fields, trying to protect themselves from harm.
Unless you are in a situation where you can easily retreat to escape from danger, retracting your field without conscious intention doesn’t help because you are still giving your attention to whatever is scaring you, allowing it to dictate your thoughts and actions. Fear makes you pay attention to whatever it is that you are afraid of. When you give it your attention, you actually give it more power over you. Your attention feeds it and makes it stronger.
Unconscious retraction is very different from a conscious decision to reclaim energy. Unconscious retraction is a result of the natural adrenaline rush that leads to flight or fight. It is automatic and instinctual, just what is needed when confronting a danger right in front of you.
Most fear responses today, however, are not the result of immediate physical danger, but rather psychological or existential (spiritual) fear or anxiety. In these cases, the fight or flight response is inappropriate and unhealthy. While this kind of fear will always be present in everyday life, we need to learn a more considered and conscious response in order to improve health, decrease conflict and avoid manipulation.
Learning to manage our personal energy fields by centering and grounding provides the tools needed to counter the fear effect. Although unconscious contraction is a natural reaction, unless that contracted energy is centered and grounded, it cannot help us access our inner resources, and is still susceptible to the manipulation of others.
A conscious choice to center and ground is much different than an automatic fear reaction. When we consciously choose, we must first realize that we have a choice in how we respond. Our attention is then split between what is causing the fear and how we are going to respond to it. This broadening of focus allows new information to come in.
Centering is simply the conscious choice to pull your energy back to you. You can do this easily by breathing in, imagining your energy returning to you on the in-breath. If you are still feeling shaky, it helps to then breath your energy down into the Earth on the out-breath. The ground acts like a bank for your energy since you can reclaim it at any time. Unlike a bank however, the Earth acts to stabilize, energize and harmonize your energy, and you can take out more than you put in. In fact, you can take out as much as you want.
Centering and grounding provides extra physical strength and stability.
Try knocking a person who is not centered and grounded (like most of us most of the time) off balance (with their permission, of course). It will probably be a relatively easy task.
Then ask that person to center and ground. Try to knock them off balance again. You’ll be surprised at how difficult it is. You may not be able to budge them at all.
Consciously pulling your energy back to you (centering) and grounding it (if needed) provides you with your full range of physical (strength), mental (conscious choice), and spiritual (intuition) resources.
When your field is contracted by fear, you are not attracting the energetic information or events that would benefit you in the current situation. You are preventing energy from working for you.
Centering and grounding connect you to your soul, which in turn is connected to universal wisdom. Centering and grounding offers mental clarity and often provides intuitive flashes or unexpected events that give you just the right information or action needed to resolve the situation.
When we have all of these resources at our disposal, we are empowered, confident and sure of ourselves. Even if a solution is not immediately apparent, we know that we can attract just what we need when the time is right.
The fear effect makes us doubt ourselves and our ability to handle the situation or solve the problem. It automatically makes us susceptible to feeling like a victim and reaching out to someone else to help solve our problems, or solve them for us. The more we look to others to protect us or solve our problems, the more we give away our energy, making us even more powerless and susceptible to manipulation by others.
Fear is negative energy, and as such, attracts more negative energy. Many of our worst fears are often triggered not by immediate danger, but by expectations: what happened to someone else, or what happened in the past, or what might happen in the future. Remember that expectations are energy, and like energy attracts like energy. If you are always expecting the worst, that is probably what you will get.
On the other hand, if you expect the best, despite what happened in the past or to someone else, etc., etc., then you increase the likelihood that you will indeed experience just that, if not something better.
Once learned, centering and grounding can be instantly employed even in immediate danger. I have managed to avoid seemingly inevitable car accidents by gathering my resources this way. In some cases, I still can’t believe I escaped without harm to either myself or my car.
It has often been said that courage is not the mark of the fearless, but rather the response of those who experience fear but then consciously choose to go beyond it.
Fear is a natural human emotion, but it doesn’t have to overpower us, overwhelm us or render us helpless. Personal energy management gives us the tools we need to gather our resources and make the conscious choice to move beyond.
For more information on personal energy management and multidimensional living, read:
It’s All About Energy: Adventures in Expanded Reality, available on Amazon and through this website www.transformationalexpansion.com/book/