EPISODE · Jun 1, 2026 · 12 MIN
Fear No Fear: The Ancient Sanskrit Practice That Rewires Trauma
from Four Fs Podcast: 10-Minute Wins · host FourFs Host
Fear lives only in the past or future. Presence dissolves it. And there's a 2,000-year-old word for the muscle that does it: abhaya.Trauma therapist Richie Landward traces fear back to the origin of creation itself — and walks through the 4-step "abhaya" process that transforms fear from enemy into evolutionary partner.In this 10-minute conversation, Richie shares:• Why fear and chaos exist to drive evolution, not to be defeated• The 4 steps of abhaya: acknowledge, be present, fear breath, cultivate love• PTSD's diagnostic core: avoidance and escape — and how to interrupt it• "You can't truly love until you've been afraid"• Growing up in Holiday, Utah with a sequencing disorder — and a dad who was dean at U of U• Why the parasympathetic system is the secret to staying with fear long enough to learnFour Fs Podcast: 10-MinuteWins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders,veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every othershow — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention.Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts,and YouTube.
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Fear lives only in the past or future. Presence dissolves it. And there's a 2,000-year-old word for the muscle that does it: abhaya.Trauma therapist Richie Landward traces fear back to the origin of creation itself — and walks through the 4-step "abhaya" process that transforms fear from enemy into evolutionary partner.In this 10-minute conversation, Richie shares:• Why fear and chaos exist to drive evolution, not to be defeated• The 4 steps of abhaya: acknowledge, be present, fear breath, cultivate love• PTSD's diagnostic core: avoidance and escape — and how to interrupt it• "You can't truly love until you've been afraid"• Growing up in Holiday, Utah with a sequencing disorder — and a dad who was dean at U of U• Why the parasympathetic system is the secret to staying with fear long enough to learnFour Fs Podcast: 10-MinuteWins delivers a daily short clip from in-depth conversations with founders,veterans, executives, and world-class experts you won't hear on every othershow — on leadership, entrepreneurship, failure, and personal reinvention.Full episodes available on the Four Fs Podcast feed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts,and YouTube.
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