OF and pain

[Shannon]

Alright.  It does feel like fears located in my abdomen are being adressed, and as far as i know thats were our primal fears reside. So it does make sense to me what you are saying. Its also very relieving to know the pain will diminish over time.

I wonder if fears in the form of shame and guilt ever gets adressed on OF, since they seem to be more rooted around the heart area if that makes sense. Perhaps a better bet for those issues would be something like E4?

OF is designed to do what is required to eliminate the fears.  If that means branching out into guilt and fear, then that is what it will do.  I will eventually be releasing a new version of Overcoming Guilt, Shame and Fear based on Overcoming Fear v2 or later, but that is not for the time being.

It isn't the fears that are located in your abdomen, etc. it's the parts of your brain and awareness that control those areas of your body being asked to deal with, process and eliminate their fears, along with those being parts of the body through which various emotional functions are experienced and expressed.  The lower in your back you get a backache, for example, the younger the "you" who, and/or the more primal the parts of your brain that are is dealing with the fears.  I get my backaches right at the base of the spine, where the spine connects to the hips.  That indicates that a part of me that is very young and/or primal in it's understanding is processing those fears.

Fears don't really "reside" in a physical location.  They are the result of response to beliefs and awareness, which are not physical, and neither is fear.  The correlation to physical areas is due to the fact that awareness focuses through the physical brain, and the physical brain has different parts controlling different aspects and parts of the body.  Digestion, for example, is frequently disrupted by dealing with fears held by the parts of your mind that focus into the physical through the parts of your brain that control the digestive system.