Comments on: The Fear of the Unknown https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/03/the-fear-of-the-unknown.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-fear-of-the-unknown Stay as awareness Tue, 01 Aug 2023 01:49:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Jim Tolles https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/03/the-fear-of-the-unknown.html#comment-2209 Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:15:29 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/03/06/the-fear-of-the-unknown/#comment-2209 In reply to Paul Kim.

Hi Paul. Thanks for your comment. I am glad that I’m helping to inspire you!

I recommend Breath by James Nestor to help you learn to breathe better. I encourage you to find a good therapist–I know that can be challenging. I am actively dissuading you from substance use and actively encouraging you towards improving nutrition, active lifestyle, rest, and water consumption. The better your body feels–the easier it will be to heal your traumas and your emotions.

]]> By: Paul Kim https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/03/the-fear-of-the-unknown.html#comment-2206 Thu, 23 Feb 2023 22:00:41 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/03/06/the-fear-of-the-unknown/#comment-2206 Dear Jim, I can’t thank you enough for sharing all your learned wisdom for free on this website. I’ve been reading passage after passage for the last several hours. And this last one, “The Fear of the Unknown,” has been the exact lesson that I have been needing these last several months. You see, I did a Bufo trip last August which was the most enlightening experience of my life. But it left me with so many flashbacks of the experience that I found terrifying. Then when things started to get better for me last month, I accidentally took one too many THC-laced gummies, and it triggered an all-out trip again. The only thing different this time was that there was no spiritual revelation and realization about love. There was only the scary stuff. This was so traumatic that it caused a severe shock to my nervous system and gave me something called, “Central Sleep Apnea,” which is when the brain has trouble sending involuntary signals to your respiratory system to breathe. This meant that I could not sleep because my breathing would stop. I went without sleep for several days, and my anxiety was through the roof in that state. I thought I was dying, and the PTSD became so bad that over time almost anything would become a trigger. Just like your writing said, my newer traumas were of the experience of having traumas (“fear of the experience of fear”). But as the weeks progressed, and even while I refused to confront my fears, I found that experiencing the triggers began to start feeling a little old. Like, when they would happen, I would even start to catch myself observing what was going on rather than trying to avoid it. From reading your blog, I realize now that what was going on without my knowing it was that I was actually learning slowly to face my fears. Even while I had not consciously decided to do that, I was actually doing it because it had gotten to the point where I could no longer avoid them. Meanwhile, I had been reading everywhere that I would ultimately never heal unless I faced them, and that made me feel hopeless. Reading your blog also enabled me to face my fears again here, now, as I kept reading. You have a real gift for getting people to do hard things without them even realizing that they are actually doing it. So right now, I feel this level of healing that I haven’t felt in so long. And I feel a level of certainty that I will indeed get through this eventually. I wasn’t so sure before. Thank you so much for doing what you do. There is so little help with this sort of thing in our world. I had a therapy session with a monk from Peru which wasn’t helpful. I sought western and eastern medicines, which helped a little, but not as much as the last few hours spent on your website. Again, you really do have a gift. Many people know how to write, but you have a way of processing the info in a way that allows it to actually penetrate into the reader’s mind to become real food for thought – in my case, medicine. So thank you!

]]> By: Jim Tolles https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/03/the-fear-of-the-unknown.html#comment-811 Sun, 23 Jun 2019 18:18:48 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/03/06/the-fear-of-the-unknown/#comment-811 You're welcome. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Unknown https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/03/the-fear-of-the-unknown.html#comment-816 Sun, 23 Jun 2019 18:18:19 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/03/06/the-fear-of-the-unknown/#comment-816 Thanks I so needed to read this as I release my fears

]]> By: Jim Tolles https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/03/the-fear-of-the-unknown.html#comment-885 Sun, 12 May 2019 18:04:01 +0000 https://spiritualawakeningprocess.com/2017/03/06/the-fear-of-the-unknown/#comment-885 You're welcome.

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