Hey Vortex fam! Today’s episode is all about becoming friends with FEAR - the emotion that we have so deeply normalized as the showrunner of our lives - and learning to stop putting it in the driver’s seat.
In typical Vortex fashion, we open with an unrelated storytime about Maya’s room at her mom’s house being a casual portal to another dimension. #justvortexthings. Then, Elle shares a parallel experience that occurred during her adventures with ketamine therapy
We get into the meat of it with Elle reading us a few pages of the PROFOUND “Mastery of Love” by Don Miguel Ruiz, which has recently been shaking up her world in the best way. That launches us into a philosophical AF conversation around FEAR the way it's woven into the very fabric of our human condition. We examine fear as a bit of a “design flaw” in this modern society where 99% of scenarios are not actually life or death, it’s nothing more than an unhelpful sensation in the body.
We explore the ways fear causes us to hold ourselves back, we ask ourselves the BIG question, “What are we even afraid of?!” and reflect on the idea that right now just *might* be the greatest time ever to be a human alive on Planet Earth. We also address the ways we judge our own fears and offer reframes that help us to give our natural fear instincts grace, and riff on the actual vibrational frequencies of certain emotions from lowest to highest as illustrated by the Emotional Guidance Scale (which we highly recommend Googling).
WOOP WOOP. Another epic, existential-ass trip to the vortex. We love you
“Mastery of Love”: https://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Love-Practical-Relationship-Toltec/dp/1878424424
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