When I was a child, I was afraid of 21 things; ghosts, being alone, dentists, dogs, cats, and rats, etc. that were running wild throughout my neighborhood. My mother was a fearful woman and I took after her.

It wasn’t until I became a teenager and the school pianist that I began to shed some of my fears. The music soothed my soul and I was good at it. Unknowingly I was building my mental mind base.

But it wasn’t until I began studying meditation with a group of people who took me under their wings and taught me how to use my fears to help others and myself.

The main lesson I learned was how to sense whose fears I was taking on, a common problem among sensitive people.