Top 50 Fears (based on our reader survey)

A recent reader survey revealed a list of the top 50 fears. Reflect on whether you relate to any here or add a comment about your own experience. Which fears do you overcome and which still linger?

1. Fear of death-or even discussing it (Thanatophobia)

2. Fear of Failure (Atychiphobia) & Fear of Success (Achievemephobia)

3. Fear of insects (Entomophobia) and spiders (Arachnophobia)  

4. Fear of snakes (Ophidiophobia)

5. Fear of enclosed spaces (Clausterphobia)

6. Fear of thunder and lightning (Astraphobia)

7. Fear of sex (Erotophobia) and intimacy (Aphenphosmphobia)

8. Fear of Flying (Aerophobia)

9. Fear of public speaking (Glassophibia)

10. Fear of solitude (Monophobia)

11. Fear of crowds (Enochlophobia)

12. Fear of needles (Trypanophobia)

13. Fear of people (Anthropophobia)

14. Fear of water or being near it (Aquaphobia) 

15. Fear of Abandonnment (Autophobia)

16. Fear of blood or sight of it (Hematophobia)

17. Fear of commitment or 'sticking it out' (Gamophobia)

18. Fear of the unknown (Xenophobia)

19. Fear of falling (Basiphobia)

20. Fear of God (Theophobia)

21. Fear of cats (Ailurophobia)

22. Fear of change or transformation (Metathesiophobia)

23. Fear of the dark (Nyctophobia)

24. Fear of men (Androphobia) or Fear of women (Gynophobia)-*often unresolved mother issues

25. Fear of  falling in Love or losing inhibitions (Philophoba)

26.  Fear of sharks, the ocean or pools (Galeophobia)

27. Fear of #13 or belief in bad luck to follow (Triskaldekaphobia)

28. Fear of vomiting and loss of self-control (Emetophobia)

29. Fear of Everything or that terrible things are coming (Panophobia)

30. Fear of Animals (Zoophobia)

31. Fear of Crime, Burglars or Attackers (Sclerophobia)

32. Fear of Pain (Agliophobia) and fear of suffering (Algophobia)

33. Fear of Mice (Musophobia)

34. Fear of Ghosts (Phamophobia)

35. Fear of Aging (Gerascophobia)

36. Fear of Sleep or what might happen as you sleep (Somniphobia)

37. Fear of Fire (Pyrophobia)

38. Fear of forgetting or not remembering (Athazagoraphobia)

39. Fear of Horses (Equinophobia)

40. Fear of Loud Noises (Ligyirophobia)

41. Fear of work (Ergophobia)

42. Fear of being buried alive (Taphophobia)

43. Fear of Cockroaches or filth (Katsaridophobia)

44. Fear of Food (Cibophobia)

45. Fear of bees (Apiphobia) and wasps (Spheksophobia)

46. Fear of Judgement (Social Phobia)

47. Fear of getting rid of stuff (Disposophobia)

48. Fear of hearing other's opinons of you (Allodoxaphobia)

49. Fear of Superstitions (Triskaidekaphobia)

50. Fear of Feet (Podophobia)

12 Stages of Awakening

Its common to reach a crossroads in life.  This is that point when you begin asking more questions without always getting quick answers.  Consider where in these twelve stages you may relate most:

Stage 1: Suffering Disconnection

We don’t feel our bodies unless they hurt. We do everything to disconnect. We may perpetuate addictions,  numb out. Suffering comes because we have lost the ability to listen to the subtle messages and rely on loud messages like physical pain or nightmares which echo our body would like our attention. 

Tips: engaging in Somatic movement exercises can help reconnect us to our body, to find comfort and resources we had forgotten we had. 

Stage 2: Identifying Polarity

Although we are healthier than in Stage 1, we are still not fully connecting to our body. We tend to look for external solutions. Things can be very black and white, good or bad. We are still blaming, not accepting responsibility for our body, but instead look for someone  to fix us, or blame for our issues.  The moment is ripe to start to recognise that we have different parts, needs and emotions. we start to connect to the parts of us we like and don’t.

Tips:  Reflect on what brings us more into our body and less affected by what people and media say. Be aware that parts of us that we reject often contain the seeds that will heal us, if only we can listen.

Stage 3: Feeling Stuck

Here we feel like we have done a lot: seen therapists, taken courses, tested out fad diets and exercises and, yet we are still not where we want to be. We are at a loss, feel stuck in repeating patterns and still resist change.  It helps to explore soma (body awareness) and observe how “we” hold ourselves in a pattern. The common factor in our situations is us. Maybe we have something to do with it?

Tips: Tune into your vibes. Sometimes a course, healing or program can help. Yet, at some point, we must  work though obstacles alone.

Stage 4: Reclaiming Power

This is a turning point. You decide to confidently reclaim power. You deserve a different attitude and existence. You are ready to accept responsibility for your thoughts, feelings and conditions. Personal power is about taking action, owning the consequences and integrating wisdom.

Tips: It’s about trusting yourself, discovering what this feels like. This is  where you reflect on life lessons, and begin to apply them.

Stage 5: Dismantling Illusions

As products of society, we adopt rules, create beliefs and ways of being from our carers and entourages. Some of the rules we outgrow. Many adopted beliefs limit our progress and keep us small and dismpowered. 

Tips: Keep a journal. This is the point we explore and integrate parts of us we have disowned, embrace the energy we exert to keep us separate and alone. It is a key step towards authenticity.

Stage 6: Willingness to change

The energy is building, we can see the finish line. We know that we have done the work. Now we must go deeper again and prepare to clear out the patterns and beliefs that no longer serve us.

Tips: Explore what authrnticity feels like and means inside.The better we know ourselves, the easier it is to fully step into true nature.

Stage 7: Releasing stage

We release our patterns. It could be through sound, emotions, some people even throw up. Whatever is necessary it feels healthy and our bodies clear out what no longer serves.

Tips: Keep an open mind. Explore ecstatic dance, belly dancing, or activities that guide stepping outside comfort zones, lose inhibitions.

Stage 8: Emptying chaos

Peaceful waiting.  There are no voices telling us what we must do, what we should do. We no longer feel obligated to meet everyone elses needs. We are peaceful. There is space, space to wait and observe and see what unfolds and fill when ready.

Tips: Be still, wait, allow the experience of peace. Emotions of this stage include grace, peace, expansion, love.

Stage 9: Seeing light beyond form

We become aware that we are more than our physical bodies and that there is an energy that surrounds and connects us all.

Tips: Keep an open heart. We feel so much more than taught.  Connect to what is beyond self. We can often read others' energy and in situations. We experience deep love, acceptance.

Stage 10: Being the Light 

Being open to receive and grow aware of your gifts allows them to blossom. We are not separate from them. We have unique gifts that enrich the collective.

Tips:  connect to our own uniqueness and potential whilst experiencing unity, part of something vast. We share the sun, water, air, earth and are the shared energy. 

Stage 11: Sharing your Gifts

Know you have innate gifts to share. We offer as we can, not because we are better or worse than anyone or, but because we do and because of who and what we are. We see from equality and equanimity.

Tips: Be aware serendipity is synchronicity. We experience joy and gratitude

Stage 12: Communing with Kindred Spirits

Our smallest community is the cells that make up our body. We then expand this to our family, friends, colleagues, then our village, our county, our country, the world, the universe?

Tips: the size and nature of our community depends on our aopproach to expanding our consciousness.

As we expand, we start to see where we sit in relation to humanity. We see into the origins of our actions, thoughts, emotions nd how they have a domino effect. As we grow to consciously connect with ourselves, our connection to the external shifts.  This raises and stabilizes our vibes, grounds our behaviour in radiant love.

12 Dimensions of Soul Expansion

Many people will ask what needs healing and how to go about it beyond the apparent physical symptoms. One view is true healing involves purifying all twelve layers of our energy systems.  Consider which level(s) you inhabit most and share comments:

1st Dimension -The Grounding Earth: The ancestors and your lineage arise from the soil.   The earth goes further to be the anchor of the whole chakra system, especially the seven main chakras.  

2nd Dimension – Our Ecosystem of life and subconscious part of our existence: survival mode.  This is where we function before learning 5 senses, only based our primal instincts (fight or flight).

3rd Dimension – Our Ego, We live to survive-We Die: At this point, we operate with five physical senses.(taste, hear, see, sensation, feel) and believe we are all separate beings. We collectively view our world from an egoic eye, seeing from our limited self view. Our subtle energy is always in dialogue with the universe. Any unhealed areas will project upheavals. 

4th Dimension – Magic and Energy: This is the point where awareness arises of energy that exists outside of us.   As we fully inhabit this space, our outer world morphs. Intuition and awakening abilities interface with other planes of existence. Energy healing, mind manifestation, magic, parallel dimensions, past life regression, dark vs light, law of attraction and 12 Universal laws grow relevant.
 
5th Dimension - Heaven exists:  The fifth level is heaven on earth. It is the place of light, the birthplace of heaven. In the 5th dimension, we are able to fully let go of any fears that we have been holding.
 
6th Dimension – Musical vibration within: You are vibration which is sound. The sixth level is purely mental in nature and based on ideas of information. Thoughts take form in this dimension before they manifest on the astral plane. Ideals take shape through sacred geometry. They are patterns of energy that hold our template, not only our bodies but also the collective data of our species. 
 
7th Dimension – Cosmic Sound: The first step is to take is to form the sacred geometry of the sixth and weave the notes and change our part in the creation process. The create life as we want. Some have proven this level with the sound of music playing and seeing how the shapes of sand or dust will create lovely patterns of such detail within seconds of playing the vibrating sounds and energies. 
 
8th Dimension- Divinity: The next level is eight the level of mastery. This is the realm of the divine mind that manifests our galaxy. This is not the realm of simply light, it is the consciousness of creation. We meet with divine beings, angels, spirits and see how energy transforms from here.
 
9th Dimension – The Christ Stargate: this is unconditionally loving consciousness. A portal of higher consciousness outside of earth. A new universe. This is where meditation forms vision. Aided by guardians, this is where time waves emerge. This is the level of Higher beings that enter our scope as vibration rises.

10th Dimension – The Spirit takes shape through one: This us level is the shaman, the tree of light. This is where we find the law of intention and the mixture of yin and yang. We can make something out of nothing. This is the force of evolution to propels the divine plan to completion. The living light that is within everything. Our now chakras activated are communication in this realm with our soul.  
 
11th Dimension – The Big Bang energy: The eleventh dimension is the first realm of universal consciousness. We are all exactly equal but individually different. This is the merging of female and masculine or yin and yang energies. This is where deeper insight into twin flames grows accessible. This is where activation happens for twins once the clearing of chakras for both parties to force more inner truth. The kundalini activates here.
 
12th Dimension – All that is: The twelfth dimension is the creative source. The merging of all existing realities. Nothing exists that is not part of the whole. This is where twin flames are merged with god as one. We are all connected. We are all purely a reflection of God to each other. The illusion of separation is nonexistent as every tree, animal, and living thing is part of a whole. This is where we are love as God and everyone is part of us. This is where union takes place as we are mirrors of ourselves fully united within.  As above as below. 
 
Beyond our 12 dimensional universe is the gateway to the universes beyond. This dimension allows travel to other universes. This is the portal of beyond existence as we know it.  The 13th to 22nd chakras activated and aligned. Creating in universes comes naturally.

12 Tips to Rise up and Get Real

Many people ask to “raise their frequency”, like it’s as simple as creating Spotify playlist or Youtube DIY video. Perhaps you wear crystals, draw mandelas, practice yoga or martial arts, utter mantras like “I release what no longer serves me,”  utter protection charms, take psychedelics or plant medicine and wonder why you’re not regulaly vibrating with flowers coming out your ears.

The thing is, stabilizing a higher or expanded vibration, raising your frequency isn’t all roses and uplifting cacao ceremonies. It includes getting teary or sobbing for no apparent reason when you least expect it. Its about feeling achy, restless, dissatisfied, angry, hormonal, fesity or wanting to strangle that over-active mind.

At a piviotal moment, it dawns that to vibe higher requires you get comfortable with being uncomfortable to the surface. You’ve gotta dive deep into emotional waters where you fear to tread.  This means feeling into the anger, the grief, and the gamut of forgotten emotions the total honesty you’ve been avoiding since childhood.So, if you keep up appearances, pretend all is well when you feel dead or empty inside, consider these tips rise up and get real.

1. Breathwork

Do you want to feel divine or just hyperventilate like a child having a fainting spell?  Breathwork can enable both.  A short period (10min) of deep, conscious breathing can elicit feeling high, humbled, and halfway to a mystical experience, assuming you don’t give up or  fall asleep early.  It’s free. It’s primal. It’s available right now.  Or you can also pay for a personal or group guide you to “activate” what is hidden. Whichever path you choose, let the soul be your pilot.

2. Meditation

Simply sit down, preferably outside, cross your legs (or not), and watch the thoughts come and go like the tide. Play  432Hz or 528Hz as binaural beats, the whole solfeggio frequency range  or Hangpan if you need a soundtrack.But the quickest way to raise your energy through meditation is not to try or think about it. Immerse in nature.Watch the mind dance and marvel at the genius.  Eventually, something quiet arises. That consciousness is you.

3. Fasting (or change that diet)

If you want to feel closer to heaven, choose to skip a meal or go gently- have a vegetarian meal once a week, change your meal menus.   If it suits, skip eating for a day, do a detox, guided water or juice fast. At some point, you may feel so lightheaded, you’ll either meet the Divine or see food very differently. Caution though. Fasting isn’t magic, it can sharpen clarity through temporary self-deprivation. If you get moody or aggressive without food, trial fast on a weekend.

4. Heart-Mind Coherence

Close both physical eyes. See with the third eye. Reflect on what you really love: your dog, baby, kids, getting your hands in the garden soil, the butterfly feeling eliited by a timeless kiss, the moment your lover gazes deeply in your eyes and you feel truly connected. Reflect on what enables you to feel alive.The heart isn’t just a pump. It’s a tuning fork for your core humanity. To stabilize a higher frequency, feel into everything. Live intensely. Allow all emotion to build up and let it melt in your chest.

5. Ecstatic Movement

You change you life from the moment you ecstatic dance at crazy hours with a face shaking back and forth like you are shapeshifting.  Dance like nobody is watching, love your body like it owes you nothing and you’ll find your trauma as tightness hiding in joints and hips.  It may stike you as off the wall.  Do it anyway.  You’ll come out lighter, looser, alive.  Shake what you outgrow out of your cells.

6. Face Your Shadows

This one tends to evoke discomfort. It’s about you, a journal, and the part of you that never healed from way back in this lifetime or other timlines. Journal the stuff you don’t want anyone to read.  Write letters you never send and burn them if you like. This is about calling yourself out on the lies you tell in relationships,  what your anger really wants to express, in silence.  This is frequency work. Do it with a pen. Read it back to yourself. Get to know the hidden voices that speak though you and ask to be heard, validated and loved.

7. Immerse in Nature

Go barefoot. Hug a tree. Jump in a puddle or roll in the mud.  Do those things that evoke the spontaneous, inner child.  Walk more regularly on the ground without shoes. This will strengthen and uplift your nervous system than another mindfulness app asking you to breathe like a seahorse.  Nature doesn’t care how spiritual you are. It already vibrates high. Tune into the plants, flowers, and insects. Ly on the beach. Listen to waves.

8. Speak Your Truth

Caution: speaking your truth , saying how you feel in the moment to someone's face may result in endings.  But nothing lowers your frequency like being liked for someone you’re not.  Express your feeings. Be real. Ask the awkward question or request forgiveness. Admit what you want.  Authenticity may be scary.  Yet it also frees you like nothing else.  It helps you rememeber you wings and suddenly you fly.

9. Treat Everything as Sacred

To be spiritual, you don’t need to move to Bali or be a solitary ascetic in a remote mountain in Nepal. Wash your dishes like they are holy. Take a poop with reverence. Be grateful for the air you breathe. Light a candle and mean it.  Sacredness isn’t a ceremony, it’s attention.

10. Rediscover Stillness

Give your kids, your partnerm your dog, your life and what matters most your full attention. Enlightenment is love. No need to seek it outside yourself. >It’s in the stillness between your distractions. Stop. Listen. Breathe. Eureka!

11. Scream therapy

It may shock you, but sometimes the fastest way to raise your frequency is to scream into a pillow or the wind on an forest path, consciously.  Roar into the void. Howl like a lion who finds its voice. Be like the werewolf wolfing out. It’s not drama. It’s detox. Years of swallowed pain have been living in your throat chakra. Trime to unleash it. Cry. Wail. Break plates (safely). Do whatever it takes to stop being a well-behaved zombie waiting for enlightenment. Your voice is a weapon. Use it to reclaim your life. Create pottery, sculpt, skinny dip under the Moon and scream with delight. Do what it takes to let loose and be free. 

12.Laught wholeheartedly

There is good reason laughter yoga a laughter therapy are growing in popularity. We are guided to move beyond the polite chuckle used to survive awkward moments. Snort, fart, allow tears run down your face, drool. Laugh until you gasp for air. Laughter heals the soul.  Trauma release ceremonies have their place but getting real implies going beyond them and recalling what it is to surrender to spontaneity.

What is Kundalini Awakening?

Many people will ask what is Kundalini Awakening? Kundalini is a sort of cosmic feminine energy said to rest at the base of the spine, the location of the Muladhara or root chakra. It’s also called “Kundalini Shakti” when in its dormant state.  At different life stages, it can awaken and shake up our lives and may also be misunderstood.

If your kundalini is awakened, you will experience herightening emotions and potentially miraculous events that you would not imagine before. On kundalini awakening, your greater divine intelligence is aroused from a dormant state and you become able to give birth to a new range of creativity. Your body and everything respond in a completely different way as a new energy is unleashed.

This awakening leads to the energy rising through the chakras, or energy centers, up to the crown of the head, resulting in profound spiritual, emotional, and physical transformations.  On kundalini awakening, a surge of spiritual energy enters into the sushumna nadi and moves from the base of the spine up through the energy centres (chakras) towards the top of the head—the crown chakra. Kundalini awakening causes experiencer to transform on the mental, emotional, and spiritual levels.Kundalini Yoga is one ancient practice that can help you harness this powerful energy.  Still, yoga means union and varied yoga traditions and practices can bring one into unity and also activate kundalini. It is wise to have a guide during your journey so you do not integrate too much energy too fast.  Yoga practices exist to help “uncoil the serpent”,  reconnect us to our divine essence.

In Sanskrit language, Kundalini means “coiled snake”. is the metaphor for the name of a sleeping dormant potential energy in the human body, situated at the root of the spinal column.  All humans have this spiritual energy . When it’s still, it is in a dormant state. Only when it moves will you know how powerful the energy is.

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