Fear has appeared twice in this book. On page 16 it lived in the body. On page 29 it was the root under every self. Here it appears a third time, as energy.

Notice what fear does to the body. The heart races, the breath shortens, the hands go cold and the belly tightens. A great deal of force has been called up, and it has nowhere to go. You cannot fight, and you cannot run. So it turns in circles and drains you.

The tradition treats this force as raw energy. It is the same life in you, moving in alarm. You do not need to destroy it. You need to give it a direction.

The breath of page 38 does exactly that. Fear makes the breath short and shallow. HAM-SA makes the in-breath long and deep, and draws the energy upward. Within a minute or two, the force that was spinning can settle into the spine and the heart, and something steadier stands where the fear was.

This does not remove the cause of the fear. Some fears point to real dangers that need action. Others are selves that need the work of Part II. But it changes who meets the fear: a person in alarm, or a person sitting upright with breath in them.