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__Kora Klapp__ 
Curious: how do you as META-Health professionals handle fear (with clients and with yourself)? Which approaches and tools do you use, and do they work in your experience?

__Jette Hastrup__ 
I use NLP, Time Line, Matrix Reimprinting, Matrix Birth Reimprinting. And it helps the client. The most importen is rapport 

__Jo Trewartha__
 I use PSYCH-K stress release process which takes 5 mins max whatever the issue and completely appears to calm me/others right down. I use Energy Alignment Method to generically clear emotions such as fear from the field again usually done very quickly and has a manifestation aspect too for what you want to feel instead. I think The Balance Procedure is also good as are Bach Remedies. Trained in EFT and Matrix too which I also love - clients don’t tend to book in for these with me so not using much these days - PTT the draw a picture version is also really nice - and I think the Ace Flow Plus process Richard Flook uses is powerful not played with that so much yet!

Have used parts Integration too but find it unnecessarily long.

Yes I believe they all work.

... and what about you Kora how do you address fear? 

__Kora Klapp__
I find grounding essential, and to let them (or me) feel the available resources to meet the expected danger, including rapport. Vagotonic breathing together is very useful (looooong exhales, and just let them fill back up by themselves through nose and skin). That's what I do first. Then we may look for the root cause and how to transform it, when the client is ready to do that. We may use tapping or regression or other processes, depending on what presents itself.
Oh yes, and essential oils work very well to support me, too, like the fragrance of spruce which I love. Then, movement esp walking and running are powerful transformators for brain stuff. Sunlight as well.

__Falguni Mather__
 Depending on level of fear definitely grounding, anchoring, centring - through visualisation and even physically feeling body on chair/feet on floor.
EFT to find the roots of fear and what is it doing /keeping us from doing. With clients I do discuss how all emotions are necessary, including fear (which helps keep you safe), and when it becomes limiting we need to see what’s going on.

__Lisbeth Lundgaard Metafys__
To me there are a few steps
1: Recognizing the fear, sometimes it is obvious and sometimes they are hiding. Making our actions fear based without us being able to see it.
2: Taking responsibility for ones part in the letting go. To me this is really important because it empowers ourselves and can be an important step in seeing that we are our own greatest healer.
3: Deciding to make a shift - to let go of limiting beliefs and to step into a new way of being.
4: For the energy releasing process I use different modalities good ones are mentioned in comments above - I mainly use Tapping

__John Rhodes__
I always used to use som form of regression either with TFT or directly in hypnosis. Lately I tend to favor BWRT because it’s so fast!

__Penny Croal__
 There are so many different types of FEAR that sometimes people are not even aware that they are living in the FEAR of the FEAR... it is natural for us as animals to have fear and depending on who we are, we can look it as a driver or a trapper. Bringing in safety elements is paramount as the starter...after that there are many ways to address each individual

__Kora Klapp__
I like to illustrate what Penny said with what we can distinguish in META-Health brain activation:

- in fear that gives us power to get back into safety, we might shit in our pants but we still move, and we have a direction. This usually doesn't leave us stuck in fear afterwards, but rather alert for potential dangers.

- Fear like in anxiety is different - esp the "fear for the fear" is based in the "frontal relays" meaning "no way to hide" and "I can't do anything about it", reflected mostly in the ((Endocrine -Thyroid - Archaic Excretory Ducts|thyroid "ducts")) and the tissue derived from the ((Respiratory - Branchial Arches Pharyngeal Ducts|pharyngeal arches)) which are essential for social communication. For example the muscles protecting hearing do stem from the pharyngeal arches, as well as parts of the larynx, and even the aorta. When we stay in anxiety and feel paralysed by fear and fearful thinking, we are predisposed for many other conflicts, and we can't listen nor communicate clearly. 

- A third one is in the "paranoid" constellation where one activates both "can't control but they're after me" and "can't escape".

Especially these cortex constellations we often need to disrupt, as they are neither natural nor biological anymore.
A paralysis only makes sense as long as one is in acute life danger when one moves or makes sound.
Biologist Stephen Porges found out that the freeze is a vagal response, and he termed 3 neural ways to deal with stress:
- the sympathetic fight/flight,
- the (old) vagal freeze,
- and the (new) vagal social cooperation we know in mammals.

So our job is, first to find out how to calm down so much as to be able to ask for help. Then, the more specific we find out about the triggers and their background, the better we can help or be helped.
When an individual however refuses to be helped for whatever reason, we sometimes can't do other than leave them - but usually these don't show up as our clients.

__Gudrun Storesund__
 I use Arttherapy and affirmations when the fear is recognized. Takes time but gives a safe journey 

__Vera Novak__
Make friends with it and make sure it knows that I am not trying to destroy it but to integrate it.

__Gaylene Hansen__
 Firstly 'asking' why I or client is fearful - acknowledging so I / we become aware of it and what may be behind it - curiosity of what I / we need to learn rather than fear. For me - I use 5min Body Talk process as maintenance each day (full 20 min process less frequently) + trace 10 of 14 meridians (still have to learn the other 4). Deep breathing / heartmath breathing / some Qi Gong / Yoga + EFT / Matrix. Lately learning to use Richard Flook's ace-flow process and combine it with EFT / Matrix - powerful I am discovering. Also some essential oils and homeopathy. And yes I find them very helpful