Dissolving Your Fears

Fear lives in the future, so Ariya has you use your inhale and exhale to move two steps at a time back toward yourself. You repeat it a few times until you arrive in your center, in the here and now. It gives your mind a simple movement to follow instead of the worry.

You imagine roots growing from your feet and between your legs down to the heart of the planet, anchoring in a crystal of light. You breathe down into them three times and beyond. The tension and electrical energy in your system is sent down the roots, much like a lightning rod carries lightning into the earth.

They are described as the white angels of clarity of a beautiful future and of courage. You hold out both hands to receive theirs, and later you lean back into their arms. They're an image of being supported while you let go, so you can use them in whatever way feels right for you.

After imagining an outcome better than you could picture, you say thank you as if it has already happened. You don't need gratitude for the feared situation itself. Anything simple works, such as your breath, the blue sky behind the clouds, a sweet animal or someone dear to you.

Ariya anticipates this and tells you not to let that thought win. You only need the feeling of gratitude, so choose something very small, like being grateful that your lungs can breathe.

In the last breath you inhale deeply, then exhale longer and longer, tucking your belly in and pushing the air out, with one more push at the end. It finishes the release before Ariya welcomes you to a new reality with an Aloha.