Select a different verse each for the Initial, Starting, Main and Endcap verses.
These are of longer, medium and shorter lengths. Recite as follows:

I - S - M - M - M - E
(S - M*10 - E) * 5


Initial verse, 1 repetition on your anchor bead.
Water // Fear // hide

Water does not resist. Water flows.
When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.
Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you.
But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it.
Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone.
Remember that, my child.
Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it.
Water does.

Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Litany against Fear


Starting verse - 6 reps throughout
Water // Fear // hide

Water does not resist. Water flows.
When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.
Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you.
But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it.
Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone.
Remember that, my child.
Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it.
Water does.

Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Litany against Fear


Main verse - 53 reps throughout
Universe // Struggles // Purpose // Fear // Presence // hide

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Max Ehrmann, Desiderata

Kindness eases change.
Love quiets fear.
And a sweet and powerful
Positive obsession
Blunts pain,
Diverts rage,
And engages each of us
In the greatest,
The most intense
Of our chosen struggles.

Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

Purpose
Unifies us:
It focuses our dreams,
Guides our plans,
Strengthens our efforts.
Purpose
Defines us,
Shapes us,
And offers us
Greatness.

Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

Frank Herbert, Litany against Fear

On a million hillsides the girl ran,
on a million bridges the girl chose,
on a million paths the woman stood.
All different, all one.
All she could do for all of them was be herself,
here and now, as hard as she could.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies


Endcap - 6 reps throughout
Panic // Rebirth // Grounding // Fear // Past // hide

Don't Panic

Douas Adams, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy

From the ashes, a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship the Ring

I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

Frank Herbert, Litany against Fear (short version)

To survive,
know the past.
Let it touch you.
Then let
The past
Go.

Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies