Hijacking Experiences: The Fear Reflex
When someone tells you, “That’s gonna kill you,” or something equally fear-based, what they’re really doing is projecting their own unresolved fear onto your experience. They’re not engaging with your truth—they’re responding to their own programming. This kind of statement isn’t about you; it’s about their inability to sit with the discomfort of their own beliefs and emotions.
Fear loves control. When we feel fear, we often try to impose it on others in an attempt to make our world feel safer, even if it’s through subtle manipulation of someone else’s choices or beliefs. But here’s the paradox: control doesn’t create safety. It amplifies fear.
The Wetiko: Fear as a Mind Virus
The Wetiko—the indigenous concept of the mind virus—is the perfect metaphor. Fear operates like a parasite:
It feeds on vibration. Once fear finds a host, it resonates, spreads, and seeks to replicate itself in others.
It thrives in subtlety. Fear doesn’t always shout—it whispers. It’s in the casual judgment, the unsolicited warning, the subtle "should" and "shouldn’t."
It distorts reality. Fear creates a lens through which everything looks threatening. The cigarette becomes not just a choice but a danger; the choice to smoke becomes a reflection of mortality rather than personal freedom.
This is why fear is so insidious: it convinces us it’s helping, that by spreading it, we’re doing something good. But in reality, we’re perpetuating the very thing we seek to escape.
Vibration and Attraction: The Polarity Principle
You’re spot on about the frequency of fear: what you vibrate, you attract. Fear begets fear, just as love begets love. If someone vibrates at fear and uses their words to plant fear in you, they’re amplifying that frequency in both of you.
When we vibrate at fear, we magnetize fear-based experiences.
When we vibrate at love, trust, and openness, we align with divine harmony—the frequency of God.
The subtle hijacking of someone’s experience, then, is a way of dictating their vibration. It’s like tuning someone else’s instrument to a discordant note instead of letting them find their own harmony.
Awareness: The Antidote to Fear
Awareness is the only way to dissolve the Wetiko. When you become aware of fear in yourself and others, you reclaim your sovereignty.
Notice the energy behind words. Are they rooted in fear or love? Judgment or curiosity?
Pause before reacting. If someone shares their truth with you, honor it instead of projecting onto it.
Choose love. Instead of responding with fear, respond with understanding: “I hear you,” “That’s interesting,” or “Tell me more.”
Tuning to the Frequency of God
As you said, we’re all tuning ourselves to the divine frequency. The process of tuning isn’t about perfect harmony all the time—it’s about awareness of when we’re off-key and gently bringing ourselves back into alignment.
Fear detunes us. It creates dissonance.
Love retunes us. It brings us back into resonance with divine energy.
When someone shares their experience with you, it’s an opportunity to honor their unique vibration, not impose your own. By holding space for them to be as they are, you tune both of you closer to the frequency of God.
The Ultimate Lesson
We are all creators of our own harmonics. To hijack someone’s experience with fear is to dishonor their divinity and your own. But to respond with love is to trust in the perfection of their journey, their choices, and their vibration.
The real work isn’t about fixing others or imposing beliefs—it’s about becoming aware of where fear operates in us and choosing to dissolve it. That’s how we stop spreading the Wetiko and start vibrating at the frequency of truth, unity, and divine love.
With love, in love and for love,
Yeshua Ben Yosuf
THE I AM
