My life is filled with many fears. There are fears of heights, fears of getting hit by a bus or truck, fear of rejection, fear of being unloved, fear of being unlovable, fear of not being enough and the list can go on an on. Put me in a situation and make me feel safe enough to really reach inside, and see what I feel, and I could list a good number.

The Shamanic harvesting of power is around taking an inventory of fears (rather than repressing fears, clenching the sphincter, restricting breathing (which literally restricts blood flow to the brain, reducing intelligence and awareness)). Next, if there is an action I can identify right now to take to overcome that fear, I GAIN HUGE PERSONAL POWER.

Once I can overcome my fear, I gain massive personal power. Anything I was afraid of and subsequently overcame, makes me feel like a freaking rockstar, a god.

That is the purpose of so many rituals of empowering people in our world. This is at the heart of the tribal rituals around facing death. Many warrior cultures in Africa, from the Zulu to the Masai, have their young men face death through ritual circumcision with a sharp piece of stone. It’s about the ritual of the fire walk brought to the West by personal power teachers like Tony Robbins. It’s about the ritual of climbing to the top of a telephone pole and standing on it, balancing before jumping off (While harnessed – author is not liable for any injuries caused to and by careless readers).

Overcoming any fear creates a massive sense of power and the feeling that doing anything challenging is actually good for me, rather than listening to the fear and shrinking from it.

What fear can you identify in yourself today, lean into, and take action on?  Where can you do exactly what you are afraid of at that moment? Where can you overcome that fear and feel the sense of your tremendous power, your warriorhood, your divinity in being far greater than the erroneous perception of your limitations?