Hi Icestar,

The voice may be someone trying to encourage you or just passing by. Anything is possible.

Overcoming your fears will occur naturally in time if you regularly use guided meditations focusing on peace or relaxation on tapes or cds.  Focus your thoughts on peace and love when you can, especially during any kind of meditation or when you are in a situation in which you feel fear (easier said than done sometimes!  Even repeating the word Love, or Peace, or One in your mind can be calming and be a great meditation.

Be open to a higher guidance to help you and all will be well.

And do try Bruce Moen's cds if you're interested.  You can definitely go as slowly as you like with those.  Let everyone know how it goes because there are lots of people here to encourage you.

love, blink

I've had this experience myself many, many times.

Blink is right on. Thanks for sharing.

Rob

Hi Icestar-

What you are doing is what you are supposed to do. There is nothing that you have to start by studying this or learning that.  It's like sneezing - it just comes.

To the degree that we "try to do it right" we can't do it at all. Your experiences indicate that you are progressing. So keep on and have faith.  After all, it wouldn't be a "new discovery" if you already knew all about it.

However, if you want an example that will reliably lead you forward, think of dancing. (Love making also fits here, but is not always appropriate to all circumstances. If you like that direction, there is Tantra.) As the dance consumes you, you find that you are less and less involved with thinking-planning-reasoning-figuring-describing-comparing and more and more you just DO. When you just DO, then all you can do is to just BE.  When you just DO and just BE then you are part of the big ISness and BECOMINGness, and you get interesting experiences that people who are perpetually set apart in selfishness are denying themselves. While you are having those interesting experiences, you can extend yourself by loving, rescuring others, and so on. Besides, it's fun!

d