Ding Dong – Door Bell Anxiety - (1833)

One “I” to Dissolve for Today!

Here’s one facet of fear to dissolve for today - the anxiety of opening the front door.

Understanding

We could have buried memories where once we answered the front door to a very unpleasant visitor or even to an intruder. Then from within our subconscious thought processes to the tune of “It is going to happen again or what if it happens again.” Begin to function making their effects felt in our emotional, motor and instinctive centres.

We could be worried that we will be delayed, or we may have done something not so right and we worry that behind the door is someone coming to complain or that because we are not very good at saying “no” we feel we will have our whole diverted away from what we had planned.

Remedies

Don’t Have to Answer the Door

In all of the above cases there are remedies. Knowing that we don’t have to answer the door if we don’t have any prior agreement or if we are not expecting anyone helps to immediately reduce the anxiety. Have a look it may be some shady character, which of course it is not wise to open your door to such a person.

We Don’t Have to be Controlled

Also, knowing that we are not ever controlled, but rather we allow ourselves to be controlled, also reduces our anxiety levels when it is the “I” of selfishness worrying that it will lose control of our day.

Selfishness

When we know that we can possess ourselves being aware and living the moment in alertness and self-observation the desire of selfishness to be alone doing what we want to do subsides. This is because selfishness has as a foundation the belief that being alone doing what we want to do is good for us, relaxes us, is productive and is a way to be with ourselves. But we don’t need to be alone and controlling our whole day to be with ourselves. Often when we do this, control our whole to be alone we don’t feel so good, it is like over eating or over indulging and we don’t feel so good. This is because our own essence is not selfish.

Fear

If we have done something wrong, focus on repairing it and know that once it is repaired, that fear will be gone and the issue or debt will also be gone. Hiding away won’t make it better but only increase the anxiety.

Trust that only if you have a karmic debt will something ‘bad’ happen if you open the front door. If it is a debt that you have to face, then pay it and be free from it forever, and trust that you will off securely and soundly and come out on the other side ok. But otherwise trust that nothing will happen.

End (1833).