Read how Dr. Hawkins describes how he transcended his own severe fear of heights.
Another technique to eliminate negative emotions is to let go of their associated mental images that attract and amplify associated emotions. Just refuse the image and cancel the temptation to indulge in it.
While doing research and experimenting with this technique, I had an experience that demonstrates one of the principles being described. I had a lifetime fear of heights which was so severe that when I went to visit the Grand Canyon for the first time, I literally could not walk within one hundred feet of the edge. It created that panicky feeling even when I saw somebody else get near the edge. I was using this technique whenever I could and enjoying the progress I was making with it, but I had never gotten around to working on my fear of heights. The next time I went back to the Grand Canyon about two years later, much to my amazement, I could walk up to within about 20 feet of the edge before the tight feeling occurred in the stomach again. I continued to use the technique over the next year or two and again went back to revisit the Canyon. Much to my surprise, I could walk right up to the very edge….What I had been releasing was the accumulated pressure and energy of all that fear from a lifetime. Similar to a pressure tank, as it released itself, there was less and less to spill over into life experiences.
The letting go of resisting is so effective because resistance traps us into a certain state of consciousness; resistance is within. Fear is a negative energy that calibrates at 100, and traps us in the field. We can not get beyond it so we become the victim of our own fears unless we own that we are the source of them. As long as we rationalize and say that the source of fear is ‘out there’, we cannot overcome it. Once we begin to own that we are the experiencer, that we are the one who sets up the way in which we experience things, then we become the one who is master of the situation.
Healing and Recovery, Ch. 9, pgs. 275-276
