• www.AlexanderBell.org • Behind every fear that comes to us is an energy, and that energy is part of us. It is the energy we originally invested into the fearful thought, when we first believed in it. The energy is not fear, but it became fear as we poured it into a concept, an idea of something that we did not want to happen.

That is what fears are. They are thoughts of things that we don't want to happen. And because we don't want them, we resist them in a very real and physical way. Our body tenses up when that thought is present. Our heart tightens. Chemicals are released into our blood stream. All of this happens because we are resisting an imaginary scenario in our mind, which the body treats as real. It is the resistance which is the sole cause of all our discomfort, distress and physical fear.

For this reason, the end of resistance is the birth of freedom, because resistance is the only problem we have. If we stopped resisting fearful thoughts, we would realise that they cannot threaten us, and that in fact they have something that we need; the energy we originally invested into them; part of our life force, part of our power.