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Everyone has fears. Some of them are rational, and some are not. Some people have more fears than others, and we all know someone who appears to be fearless. The thing about fear is that sometimes it can pop up when we aren’t expecting them.

I had gone with some friends to a wax museum when we were visiting Los Angeles. It wasn’t a fancy or particularly famous place. We happened to be driving when we saw it and decided to stop. It was cool seeing recognizable people portrayed in lifelike detail. I was having a good time until we walked into a room on the tour that was dedicated to horror.

Walking through the room and seeing the murderous characters from famous movies inches from me tossed me head first into a panic attack. I was gripping the back of my best friend’s shirt, telling her that we needed to go back the other way. My behavior was so erratic that both my friends thought I might need medical assistance. I’m usually in control in emergency situations, except this time, I was the emergency. I was so wound up that I put them in panic mode too. Long story short, after long moments of me, stalling and pleading not to go forward, we decided to keep going and pass through a darkened doorway to where we didn’t know. It turned out to be the gift shop. I couldn’t get out of the building fast enough. No souvenirs for me, thanks.

My point in telling this embarrassing story is that I was gripped by fear in that moment and almost no amount of reasoning could have talked me out of the episode. To be clear, I didn’t completely lose my shit, but my usual ability to think logically was out to lunch. It was only when we were back in the car, and I was working on catching my breath that my higher brain function kicked in, and I could think about what had happened. To this day, I still don’t know exactly what triggered it. I only remember being in a panic and, at points, too paralyzed to move while my friends frantically tried to figure out what the hell was wrong with me.

This is how fear works, and it can spring up and bite us in the ass when we least expect it. Most of the time, we can get a handle on it and keep ourselves from full panic mode, but there might be instances like the one I had where survival instinct takes over, and only God knows what’s going to happen next.

My fear was triggered by the nightmare figures as I don’t like horror movies. Who needs them when all I have to do is look around me, and I can see demons and other things walking or crawling nearby? At the time, I was still trying to ignore my spiritual gifts and working like crazy to be “normal.” When I look back at it now, if I had embraced my gifts by then, I might have looked at it as if it were an experiment. I would have checked to see if the scary wax figures had embodied the energies of the things and people they portrayed. Nope, back then, I was a freaked-out babbling idiot stretching out the back of my friend’s shirt.

Moving forward in time, as I became a person of power, I began to notice fear. Not just my own, but the fears of others. I started to see that when others spoke of fearful things causing their own feelings of fear to rise, any negative entities attached to them seemed to revel and increase in size as I watched. I learned that fear feeds them. It allows them to grow larger and thus have a greater influence over their host. I saw the things smile with contentment the more agitated the person became. To call it disturbing doesn’t begin to describe it.

Fear in any area of your life can protect you from things, but it can also hold you back. In spiritual terms, your fear can issue an invitation that you didn’t want to send. It can make you more attractive to a negative entity looking for its next meal. Fear is necessary. It has helped keep us alive for thousands of years. It’s when we try to tamp down our fears instead of dealing with them or facing them that they can pop up at inconvenient times and cause us no end of trouble.

If your intention is to work with spirit either for personal or professional reasons, it’s to your benefit to take a look at your deepest, darkest fears and bring them to light. It’s a way to be better prepared. If not you could leave yourself vulnerable to something you can’t see that chooses to use your fears against you and causes you to trip into the major pitfall of fear.