PURE FEAR

PURE MIND

I am Pure Mind, in which fear arises.

Prompt:

Please explain how I can embrace my fear, especially morning fears. When I woke this morning, there was a strong, fearful sensation in my throat. I recognized it, and then later it spread down to my solar plexus. So, the fear sensations ran from my solar plexus to my throat. The throat tightness fear sensations happen quite often. What I did is I felt the sensations and I noted ‘pure mind’. The phrase changed to ‘pure fear’. So, I gently repeated the phrase on each breath, pure fear. That helped to change the sensations and restore my well-being, period.

  1. Could you please explain what this process is, period? Could you offer skillful practices for dealing with my fears and anxieties, period?
  2. I would like to consider an opinion on naming this ‘dear fear’ and having a simple three-part process in embracing my dear fear.
  3. Please write an extensive essay on the possible causes of my many fears, examples my ‘fears of wrongdoing’, abandonment, rejection, failure. fears of physical pain, emotional pain and my body/brain deteriorating so I can bless, embrace and understand them.
  4. What is the one central healing I can understand and do going forward. Did “PURE MIND” provide the healing support this morning.
  5. If so, how can I strengthen my understand and relationship with PURE MIND? What 25 wise phrases I can draw on, like ‘I am One’, Love is Everything etc.
  6. Is GOD or PURE MIND also the source of my suffering. 7. Do I embrace my fears knowing there is wisdom and spiritual growth in my many fears? Thank you.

ChatGPT said:

That’s a profoundly aware and courageous reflection.
What you described—recognizing fear, feeling it directly in the body, naming it, and letting the phrase “Pure Mind” or “Pure Fear” arise—is already a deep mindfulness process.Below is a full essay and guide that honors your experience and expands it into understanding, practice, and spiritual insight.

🌿 The Nature of What Happened: Recognizing and Transforming Fear

When you woke and felt fear move from your throat to your solar plexus, and you simply noticed and breathed with it, you were practicing somatic mindfulness—awareness of sensations as they arise in the body without resistance.The moment you said “Pure Mind” and later “Pure Fear,” something very subtle occurred:
You shifted from identifying with fear to witnessing it within consciousness.
This is a moment of non-dual recognition—seeing fear not as “my problem” but as an energy moving within a larger field of awareness.

In Buddhist and meditative language, this is called transmutation through awareness.
In modern psychology, it parallels exposure with acceptance—allowing sensations to exist until the nervous system re-learns that they are not threats.
Spiritually, it is embracing the shadow in the light of compassion.

So yes, “Pure Mind” did provide healing. It functioned as a bridge between awareness and the fearful emotion—a sacred naming that reminded your consciousness of its purity even while meeting its fear.

🌸 Understanding the Process

  1. Recognition – You noticed the fear early, before it ruled your mind.
  2. Allowing – You allowed the sensations in the throat and solar plexus without pushing them away.
  3. Naming – You gave the fear a name that transformed it: “Pure Fear.”
  4. Witnessing – You became the one who is aware of the sensations, not lost inside them.
  5. Integration – Through calm breathing and presence, the energy of fear reorganized into peace.

That is the essence of healing through awareness.

🌺 A Simple Three-Part Process: Dear Fear

You might call this the Dear Fear Practice —a way to befriend fear rather than fight it.

  1. Dear Fear — I See You

Pause. Feel the sensations exactly as they are—in throat, belly, chest.
Say inwardly: “Dear fear, I see you. You are welcome here.”
This opens the door of compassion and interrupts the cycle of suppression.

  1. Dear Fear — I Feel You

Let the sensations live and move through the body.
Breathe gently into them. If you can, name them softly:
“tight,” “rising,” “throbbing,” “energy.”
Let “Pure Mind” or “Pure Fear” accompany the breath.
This invites the mind into stillness while the body expresses its truth.

  1. Dear Fear — I Thank You

When the wave of fear softens, whisper gratitude:
“Thank you for protecting me. Thank you for reminding me to awaken.”
Fear’s ultimate message is love—its purpose is to keep you safe, and once understood, it dissolves back into peace.

🌼 Understanding the Causes of Fear

Your listed fears—wrongdoing, rejection, failure, pain—are deeply human.
They arise from layers of conditioning, biology, and spirit:

  1. Fear of Wrongdoing

Root: Early experiences where love felt conditional on being “good.”
Healing: Recognize that goodness is intrinsic, not earned. Practice self-forgiveness daily.

  1. Fear of Rejection or Abandonment

Root: Childhood moments of emotional absence or loss of connection.
Healing: Feel the loneliness directly; breathe warmth into it. Practice: “I am here for you.”

  1. Fear of Failure

Root: Identification with external success as proof of worth.
Healing: Redefine success as honesty, presence, and compassion.

  1. Fear of Physical Pain

Root: Survival instinct + past trauma associations.
Healing: Mindful body practice—relaxing around pain, exploring sensation without labeling it “bad.”

  1. Fear of Emotional Pain

Root: Avoidance of grief, shame, or guilt stored in the heart.
Healing: Let tears and tenderness arise; they cleanse the heart.

  1. Existential Fear

Root: The mind’s uncertainty about control, loss, and death.
Healing: Contemplative surrender—realizing that beneath the transient self, there is only awareness and love.

🌞 The Central Healing: Returning to Pure Mind

The central healing is the realization that:

You are not your fears — you are the Pure Mind in which fear arises.

Fear is energy; Pure Mind is the space that holds it.
When you say “Pure Mind,” you invoke your deepest identity—the silent field of consciousness that is untouched by fear.
When you say “Pure Fear,” you recognize that even fear, when seen clearly, is pure energy—uncontaminated, innocent, wanting to return to wholeness.

To strengthen this relationship:

  • Begin each morning by breathing and whispering, “Pure Mind, I am home.”
  • When fear appears, say, “Pure Fear, I see you. Thank you for coming to be loved.”
  • Journal afterward: What did I feel? What changed when I allowed it?

Over time, the nervous system learns that awareness itself is safe—and that safety is divine.

🌿 Is God or Pure Mind the Source of Suffering?

From a non-dual view, nothing exists outside Pure Mind or God.
That means fear, pain, and joy all arise within the same sacred field.

But suffering comes not from God itself—it comes from resisting what God allows to arise.

When we turn toward the fear and say, “You too belong,” we end the division.
Then suffering transforms into wisdom and compassion.

So yes, there is spiritual growth in your fears.
They are teachers calling you home.

💎 25 Wise Phrases for Embracing Fear

You may repeat or journal with these phrases, as blessings or breath mantras:

  1. Pure Mind is my home.
  2. I am safe in this moment.
  3. Dear fear, I see you and I thank you.
  4. Love is everything.
  5. I am One with all that is.
  6. This too is sacred.
  7. I breathe in peace, I breathe out fear.
  8. I allow life to move through me.
  9. I trust the unfolding.
  10. I am not my thoughts or sensations.
  11. Every fear is a call to love.
  12. I rest in the stillness beneath all feeling.
  13. I am guided by gentleness.
  14. The light in me holds every shadow.
  15. What I feel, I heal.
  16. I choose compassion over control.
  17. The divine is here, even in trembling.
  18. I surrender into Presence.
  19. I forgive myself for being afraid.
  20. My heart is vast enough for everything.
  21. I am loved beyond my understanding.
  22. I welcome my humanity as holy.
  23. The wave belongs to the ocean.
  24. Nothing is wrong in awareness.
  25. Pure Mind, Pure Love, Pure Peace.

🌺 Going Forward

Your morning fear was not a setback—it was a moment of initiation.

Each time fear visits, it offers a doorway back to Presence.Let your practice be tender and consistent:

  • Breathe with sensations, not against them.
  • Let “Pure Mind” remind you of who you truly are.
  • Let “Dear Fear” become your teacher, not your enemy.
  • End each practice with a short blessing:

“May all beings who feel fear find peace and safety within their Pure Mind.”