The Catastrophe you fear will happen has already happened.

A seemingly irrational fear, though it isn’t, can take myriad forms.

A fear that occurred long ago, and was so overwhelming that the brain repressed it so deeply that it has no access.

The energy, however, still lives in the body and fires everywhere else other than the source of the fear itself, as that would require feeling it, which is what your brain has helped you avoid (to protect you).

The fear, however, when life moves on, doesn’t. It wears masks such as anxiety & depression, and it becomes limiting. It can block what’s nourishing in life.

In Hakomi, we study the anxiety, the depression, the exhaustion, whatever feeling or sensation is showing up now.

We learn to get curious, slowly & gently, ask what it’s all about, what is this feeling trying to tell us? We set about providing a safe container for it to slowly reveal itself and be known.

We help the brain update to relearn that it won’t take the person out - you are capable of surviving it, and thriving from having faced it…

Until then, the world can feel like a scary place, love can feel scary, people can feel scary, speaking, expressing, asking, all of these things can feel very scary to the energy of fear that isn’t even about now; it’s about then.

Until we turn to face the real source of fear, we will find evidence everywhere for this being a very scary world.

Granted, sometimes the world is scary, sometimes people are pretty scary.

Ron Kurtz speaks of necessary suffering and unnecessary suffering. Necessary suffering is natural, spontaneous fear that arises when a threat is actually present - a tiger in our path, or we are actually a country at war.

Unnecessary suffering is the underlying feeling of a constant threat.

Living every day with a nervous system under threat is unnecessary suffering

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