I have always understood the use of fear. It gives animals and humans the fight or flight instinct leading to survival. That I have. I know when to stand up and fight and when to leave a situation and just as many others, at times, make the wrong decision. Though for the most part, I can tell you I make the almost right decision. What do I mean by mostly or almost right? Well, if I had more time in those situations, perhaps I would have done exactly what I had done, but perhaps just with a twist, an addition etc. I have no problems with healthy fears.
My problems are with anxieties. I have irrational fears and anxieties that really are not healthy any more, and I recognize, understand and accept this. For instance, I have an anxiety about deer. On average, a person in their lifetime will hit 1.5 deer, or hitting one and clipping one. Myself, I have hit 5 deer in my short- 30 years on this Earth, and mere 12 years of driving. Yes, 5!!! Crazy I know. So with a recent experience with buying a new car and hitting a deer 2 days later, my irrational fear has led me to barely being able to drive at night without being full of anxieties. Even with performing protections spells, praying and communicating with Cernunnos asking him to keep his deer safe and keep them off the roads I am driving, even with taking a hot relaxing bath, visualizations and meditations and positive thinking, I am riddled with anxiety and barely able to drive.
I also have an anxiety of falling. It doesn't have to be somewhere high either. A simple balcony makes me nervous. I didn't use to be this way. I don't know where this one came from. It is an unfounded fear. I have never fallen off a balcony or any other place. But, at least in my dreams, the balcony is old or somewhat broken, so I know what the symbolism is there.
Losing my family- especially my kids, my job, my home, not having enough to eat, spiders, snakes, the ocean/sea, jellyfish, sharks, sea urchins, wasps, bee's, hornets...... the list goes on. These are all anxieties that prevent me one way or another from fully living.
Still, knowing many and most of these things are completely unfounded anxieties, even knowing that may of which I cannot encounter such as the ocean or ocean life while living in Kansas... the anxiety still lurks. Thus, cluing me in to the need to do something about it.
Magically, I would tell someone to communicate with deity. To seek out my anxieties and face them first in meditations, then a guided atmosphere and eventually on my own. I would tell them to study their fear, talk to it, embrace it. And by doing this you will learn to appreciate it and eventually be okay with it. At some point the fear or anxiety will dissipate once it comes full circle.
So with this knowledge and with the use of my OWN advice, I will be attempting to clear my mind of this clutter, this irrationality. I have decided to start with some tea's and herbal bath treatments that I suggest to others for anxiety. Here are some recipes:
Soothing tea:
1 part vanilla bean
4 parts peppermint leaf
1 part comfrey.
If you get your vanilla bean fresh, grind up and allow to dry before using. Peppermint is wonderful for de-stressing, so I use it in the bath as well...
1 cup epsom salt
drops of green food coloring (green is the color for healing and health)
6 drops of peppermint or spearmint oil.
In a glass bowl (do not use plastic- the oil can cause it to melt, and do not use wood due to its porous nature it would forever smell of the oil you used.) Mix the salt and the oil and the food coloring until it is uniform and well blended.
Pour into a hot bath, sit and relax. Can't get any simpler than that!
Lastly, take vitamins, eat right and exercise. Vitamins help your body be in the best shape possible. Eating the right foods- in the right amounts help the body to not need or want. Grains, healthy fats, fresh fruits and veggies, lean protein and calcium rich foods are exactly what your body craves. Exercise at least for 20 minutes daily- up to an hour if you can. This reduces stress chemicals in the body.
Along with the meditations, communications, and facing your fears, this should be the best NATURAL treatment available.
So with saying this, I will be documenting my travels with this.
Brightest Blessings!
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