How to move from Fear to Joy

Sometimes, things happen in life that just come out of nowhere and bring you to your knees in seconds. At least, that is my experience. I am having a great day and then boom! Just like that - everything changes in a second and I feel like I can’t breathe and my world is collapsing round me.

That happened to me this month. Out of nowhere I get a phone call and everything changed. I fell from Joy to Fear in a matter of seconds and felt dizzy, sick and panicked all at once.

It always amazes me that our emotions have the ability to take us from being lit up and in Joy, to fear and despair so quickly. Why is it that we appear to be at the mercy of our environment in every given moment and is there anything we can do to change it?

Every emotion has a frequency or vibration and the lower the frequency the worse we feel. For example, Fear has a much lower frequency than Desire or Anger, while Willingness, followed by Acceptance and Reason move further up the scale until you reach Love then Joy.

I already know this having followed this teaching for many years. After a few days of remaining in a Fear state, I remembered that I hadn't been meditating in the last week and although, frankly, couldn’t be bothered, forced myself to sit down and meditate for 10 minutes. It wasn’t until I did this that I began to relax and the fear began to subside a little. Don’t get me wrong, this was no magic bullet, but I felt comforted and relaxed enough to let my intuition come through. I kept hearing “Follow the breadcrumbs” in my head, and so the next day decided to do something that would make me feel a little lighter.

I headed to a coffee shop with my Journal and a podcast and sat down and listened to my favourite podcast Divinely Design Your Life by Cassandra Bodzak and what happened over the next few days blew my mind.

She was interviewing a woman called Jackie Seiden and something about her energy just made me smile. She talked about a guy called Gary Temple Bodley who is her spiritual mentor and I was fascinated by her story. I felt my mood lift a little so listened to Cassandra’s latest podcast which remarkably was with Gary and also started listening to Jackie’s own podcast that she does with another guy called Dominic Zenden who does aura profiling. I found him absolutely fascinating, realised that he has his own podcast so started listening to that.

My concentration was by this time glued to all this uplifting content and realised my mood had lifted and could feel myself moving up the emotional frequency scale through courage, neutrality, willingness, acceptance and reason. I knew this as was taking notes in my Journal and how all this knowledge could be applied to my circumstances.

Meanwhile, got home and went into YouTube and saw an interview with Jackie Seiden on another woman’s channel called Uncover Your Magic with Ashley Gonor who also talked about Gary Temple Bodley who has his own podcast called Joshua Live which I tuned into and have been listening to since.

By the end of these 5 days I wrote down how I had come across all these people who were somehow all linked to one another and realised they were a series of serendipities or “breadcrumbs” that I had been told to follow in my meditation a week earlier.

I had an epiphany which was that all the content I had been consuming with all these people all had one thing in common. They understand and teach that when we are in fear and despair we have to let go and trust that everything is happening "for” us and not “to” us. We are not victims of our circumstances but are the creators of our own reality and do not need to let our environment and the people around us control how we show up to any given situation.

I needed to let go of the control and trust that everything is perfect and is always working out for our highest good. So that is what I did. I started showing up to each day with a smile of gratitude and Joy and slowly things have started to change around me and I feel so much better and confident that whatever happens I can deal with.

I urge you to go and check out all the podcasts I mentioned and let me know in the comments where on the scale you are today.