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Facing Fear Part 1

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fear Fear is a powerful and effective emotion. Fear can protect you from harm. Fear can motivate you to take action. Fear can heighten your awareness and focus your attention like nothing else. Fear can prepare you for difficult challenges.

And yet, the purpose of fear is not to stop you, but to warn you, to inform you and prepare you. The purpose of fear is to keep you alive and safe, not to keep you from living life. Fear can give you the tools to move forward, rather than serve as a reason to hold back.

Fear is a valuable and useful part of life, but it can be a big problem when it dominates your life, or certain aspects of your life, and prevents you from moving forward. Fear can render you unable to take action when its purpose is actually to prepare you to take action.

Fear can be uncomfortable. That’s how it gets your attention. That’s why it is so powerful, because you cannot ignore it. Yet just because it is so compelling doesn’t mean it has to be overpowering. The strategy for getting the most out of fear is to work at understanding your fears, to look at them and truly seek to know of what they are meant to tell you. The best way to move beyond your fear by listening to what it has to say and making use of it.
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2 Comments

Steve M Nash
July 27th, 2009 at 09:55

I too am fascinated by fear and the often unhealthy grip it has on our lives. To me, the biggest problem with fear is not actually realising that you’re suffering from it, so thanks for sharing your thoughts here and for spreading the word (on fear)!

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