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When we experience fear, we want to strike out, but we don’t, because we think the risk is too great. We believe we’ll probably get hit harder. We want to reach out, but do not because we think we’ll get hurt. Our bodies have a little more energy than in grief, but the energy is still so contracted that it is mostly painful. Feelings can rise and fall very rapidly, like cool water on a hot skillet. Our minds are a little less cluttered than in grief, but still very noisy and opaque. Our pictures and thoughts are about doom and destruction. All we can think of and see is how we will get hurt, what we may lose, and how we must protect ourselves and those around us.

Releasing is an excellent tool for coping with fear, as Judy discovered on a six-week camping trip through Morocco and Kenya. On an isolated and precarious road atop the Atlas Mountains, the four-wheel drive jeep that she and eleven others were riding in suddenly turned over. For a few moments, everyone thought they were going to die, until the jeep stopped partway over the cliff. Hearts pounding, they scrambled carefully out onto the slope where they remained stranded overnight under challenging conditions. It was windy and chilly. They had few supplies or provisions, several people had diarrhea, and one injured man went into shock. Yet, throughout it all, Judy kept releasing her fear. As a result, she was calm, even fascinated, wondering if they would ever get out of their predicament and thinking it was an incredible adventure, however it wound up. Best of all, she lived to tell the tale without carrying around any sense of trauma from what had happened.

Words and phrases that describe fear:

• Anxious

• Apprehensive

• Cautious

• Clammy

• Cowardice

• Defensive

• Distrust

• Doubt

• Dread

• Embarrassed

• Evasive

• Foreboding

• Frantic

• Hesitant

• Horrified

• Hysterical

• Inhibited

• Insecure

• Irrational

• Nausea

• Nervous

• Panic

• Paralyzed

• Paranoid

• Scared

• Secretive

• Shaky

• Shy

• Skeptical

• Stage fright

• Superstitious

• Suspicious

• Tense

• Terrified