Love & Fear

Every thought, action and decision can be understood to be motivated by either love or fear. In this lesson, I briefly introduce this Love & Fear framework and we then turn it into a potent writing exercise.

This exercise is suitable for a big challenge in your life. Something that comes with a big emotional charge. At this point in the course, you have also done plenty of groundwork to prepare and get the most out of this exercise.

Exercise

• Starting point: choose a conflict, a problem or a source of suffering you are currently experiencing in your life. This exercise works best with something that is really present and alive for you, right now.
• “What does fear say?” - allow yourself to fully express your fears around this problem.
• When you come to a pause in your writing: “Is there more? What else wants to be expressed?”
• Repeat the “is there more?” prompt after every pause in writing, until you feel a sense of completion.
• “What does love say?” - switch perspectives from fear to love and allow yourself to fully express what comes up.
• When you come to a pause in your writing: “Is there more? Can I allow love to express itself at full brightness?”
• Repeat the “is there more?” prompt until you feel a sense of completion.

If you’d like to read a personal account of what doing this exercise was like for me, check out this article.