Overcoming Fear E-Book

Thomas Mayer

• Herausgeber: Clairview Books
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 77

Beschreibung

Let's work together to develop inner light and counteract the darkness! Illustrated throughout in full colour, this booklet features 28 meditations and soul exercises to help develop courage and internal strength, supporting our inner being and spiritual self. The meditations can aid in clearing our emotional space and illuminating our thinking – strengthening health, bringing healing to dark impulses and assisting us in integrating death as an important part of life. The exercises are also a contribution to easing the tensions felt in the collective consciousness during this time of multiple global crises. In the concluding chapter, based on concepts from the research of Rudolf Steiner, the author puts into perspective the spiritual struggle underlying the coronavirus crisis.

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Thomas MayerOvercoming Fear - Exercises for spiritual self-defense

© 2022 Thomas Mayer, c/o JENBACHMEDIAGrünthal 109, 83064 Raubling, Germania

All rights for the text and images belong to the author.

ISBN 978 1 910465 03 9

Overcoming Fear

Exercises for spiritual self-defense

by Thomas Mayer

Dear Readers,

the reason for this book on overcoming fear is the corona crisis that began in 2020. This brought to the surface unresolved issues that will occupy us for a long time. The exercises presented in this book are timeless and can be used for other occasions as well – for example, wars, social crises, conflicts and pressures of all kinds.

In this little book, I present 28 meditations and soul-exercises that aim to strengthen our sovereignty, dignity and connection to the spirit; this should contribute to ease the shared situation.

In Latin, corona means “crown” and “corona radiata” means “halo”. The crown is an expression of an upright and awakened crown chakra that connects us with the spiritual world; a particularly strong connection is expressed through the halo.

The corona crisis at its core is an attack on mankind’s connection to spirituality. Since it is a spiritual war, it can only be met with spiritual means.

The suggestions made in this booklet are not designed only for reading, but also for meditating. It is best to do this in small groups and to then discuss the experiences.

“Dark winter” is the name given to an international conference in 2001 in which lockdowns were played out. Let us make a white winter out of it, let us illuminate the darkness! I chose this as the concept for the pictures in this booklet.

Since my youth I have been practicing anthroposophy; today I mainly give courses and trainings in anthroposophical meditation. Parallel to this I have always engaged as a civil rights activist, working for more direct democracy and for a fair money system. It is from this background that I wrote this text.

I wish you pleasure in reading, meditating and talking about it!

March, 2023

Thomas Mayer

Contents

Introduction

Basic meditations

Exercise 1: Create moments free of fear and strengthen your connection to spirituality

Exercise 2: Do many small meditations and prayers throughout the day

Clarifying your emotional space

Exercise 3: Turning rage and anger into strength and clarity

Exercise 4: Sort, clarify and observe emotions

Exercise 5: Healing work with dark feelings

Light up your thinking space

Exercise 6: Strengthen independent thinking and believe your own insights

Exercise 7: Search for truth and go to the sources

Exercise 8: Dealing with the corona crisis in a positive way

Exercise 9: How to avoid the corona hypnosis caused by media consumption

Clarifying my position in society

Exercise 10: Meditate different points of view, create space for understanding

Exercise 11: What is the higher meaning of the corona crisis?

Exercise 12: Reconsider your own position in society

Exercise 13: Enduring insult and denial

Strengthening your health

Exercise 14: Understanding illnesses, looking at the biography of an illness

Exercise 15: Befriend your body and its system of organs

Exercise 16: Strengthen the immune system through meditation

Exercise 17: Healing meditation by Sigwart zu Eulenburg

Integrating death

Exercise 18: Befriend your own death

Exercise 19: Become aware of your own little spiritual deaths

Exercise 20: Respect for life dissolves the fear of death

Exercise 21: Cultivate contact with those who have died

Exercise 22: What were the circumstances of my death in past incarnations?

Healing work

Exercise 23: Silent declaration

Exercise 24: Spiritually improve the sars-cov2 virus and the illness covid19

Exercise 25: Create a healing space with angels and pray to free the demons of fear, manipulation and lies

Exercise 26: Bless and transform masks, tests and vaccines through prayer

Exercise 27: Spiritually cleanse newspaper articles, videos and films

Exercise 28: Confront with determination the dark spirits acting behind the scenes; take away their strength and redeem them

Spiritual scientific perspective on the corona crisis

Soul perspective: Collective anxiety disorder

Soul perspective: Collective hypnosis

Astrological perspective: as at the dawn of the Reformation: Conjunction of Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn on 12 January 2020

Historical perspective on 100 years since the Russian Revolution and the revival of this historical impulse

Spiritual perspective on the imminent incarnation of Ahriman

Spiritual perspective on proselytising materialism and transhumanism

What can we do?

Rudolf Steiner on fear and the power of healing

“If courage is not to sink …”

Endnotes

Introduction

The lockdowns of the corona crisis since March 2020 present a spiritual challenge. I perceive these as a worldwide attack on human consciousness. It is an attempt to bind people to fear and cut them off from their sovereign core. It is a huge challenge.

Throughout this it is important to stay aware and to strengthen your sovereignty and your connection to spirituality. With that aim I present the following 28 Meditations and Soul-exercises. Through these we are able to act and are not powerless, it only depends on us. We are sovereign. This strengthens our dignity.

The lockdowns from March 2020 onwards surprisingly revealed what suddenly was possible, or what was no longer possible – restriction of fundamental rights, defamation of people and scientists with sober arguments, one-sided information by the media. No doubt the corona infection was a severe disease, like any other infection. But why did it generate so much fear? And why this massive violation of the foundations of our society? Lockdown is a term used in the penal system; it means “locking the prison cell”. Whole countries were locked up. The feeling grew that we were living in a George Orwell novel. After a short period of relaxation in the summer of 2020 the governments decided to continue with devastating lockdowns lasting for months. The damages far outweighed the benefits. Worldwide far more people were going to die due to the results of the lockdowns than through the illness itself, but there was no open discussion about this proportionality. Instead, pressure was built up for people to be vaccinated, thus dividing the population.1

Many of us could sense how something was being thrust upon us with an immense force, something not aiming at freedom or love. A tremendous, dark, overpowering something was lingering over our life and society. This caused fear.

An antidote to this is self-reflection and meditation. This strengthens our individual power and creates freedom. And by spiritual and healing deeds we can drain the spiritual energy out of the attacks, thereby easing the collective thinking and feeling. This helps social development. Inner and outer actions belong together.

To me, it is important to never lose love or our spiritual connection. The danger is to become embittered through criticizing the measures of the state and thus giving room precisely to the dark forces one is afraid of.

The 28 meditations presented here have proven helpful. It is best to practice them together with others and then to share the experiences. This sharing of experiences is essential in order to digest them. If you are just by yourself, it is recommended you write down your experiences. There is no need to do the exercises in a certain order; you can choose the exercise you find suitable. If you cannot relate to an exercise, just leave it.

The following meditations are intended to address those with a spiritual interest, no matter what spiritual background they are from. I have done my best to be understandable. The following is not meant for those convinced that there is only a material world, as they will not understand. For me the soul-world and the spiritual world are a daily experienced reality. This is the starting point for the following exercises.

For almost 20 years I have taught anthroposophical meditation. Anthroposophy is the science of the spiritual world. Many things here I can only describe aphoristically. The practice of meditation and the exploration of the spiritual world is a huge and complex field. At the end of this text, I have gathered together spiritual-scientific perspectives on the corona crisis. Many questions will remain open. This is good, because it is stimulating.

The worldwide lockdowns since March 2020 were unimaginable to us citizens. But they were already planned and played through in several international conferences, e.g. “Dark winter” in 2001. The term “dark winter” or “hard winter” was repeatedly chosen by politicians in 2020/21.2 Spiritually we can turn it into a white winter. The photographs in this booklet are meant to encourage this.

Basic meditations

Exercise 1:

Create moments free of fear and strengthen your connection to spirituality

The corona restrictions left a big mark on our daily lives – the fear of becoming ill, the fear of the consequences of the restrictions and the continuous media bombardment exposed many of us to a permanent gruelling corona stress. We need corona-free moments every day in which we can let ourselves be filled with something nourishing such as a walk in the woods, a good book, good conversations, pleasant experiences or a meditation. Meditation is always about strengthening the connection to the spirit. Here is a simple example:

Exercise: