I just got this article from my mentor David Neagle and had to share it – as I was thinking about exactly this stuff just last night. It is SO important to be aware of where fear stops us, otherwise we never move forward to achieve what we want. I recorded a quick video re: my experience with this too – enjoy!
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Last ezine, I wrote that if you’re making a decision from the point of fear, you’re making the wrong decision.
The sad truth is that most of the decisions people make are motivated by fear. These are fears that are so engrained in their subconscious mind that they’re not even aware of them. These fears control their thoughts and they don’t realize it.
But it’s still not enough to be conscious of your fears; to be free of them, you have to look beneath them.
There’s an old adage that can be applied to fear:“false evidence that appears real.”
In our imagination, we create some kind of catastrophe. Let’s say you picture a tsunami overtaking an island. Now, you could imagine that tsunami far away and not feel fear, but you put yourself there with your family, and boom, you’ve got a fear. What is that fear based on? Why would you fear that product of your imagination?
You fear it because something deeper has triggered that fear. What is it? It is whatever insecurity you are protecting inside. In the example, that insecurity could be that you can’t keep your children from harm. On the surface you feel fear of a tsunami, but that fear is not a cause of your feeling; that fear is an effect of your deeper insecurity. Remember, fear is not a cause; it is an effect.
But even that insecurity isn’t deep enough. Why do you think you can’t protect your children? It may be because a parent didn’t protect you. Your psyche projects this masked scenario that if you tracked it to its source, you could gain real understanding about how you are gripped by a childhood abuse.
Most people won’t do that. They’ll focus only on the surface fear, the effect. But only by facing the cause of the fear will the fear dissolve. You’ve got to find out the root cause.
The very best way to come face to face with the cause is action. You need feedback. You get feedback from action.
It looks like this: You are inspired to take an action; a fear comes up. As I’ve written before, if you have a fear, that fear will show up. You probably stop. Most people stop. But then you examine the fear. What’s causing it? What insecurity of yours is it masking? You have an insight. You take that insight as deep as you can. You gain understanding of yourself and the fear loses its power to stop you. You move past it. You take another inspired action and come face to face with another fear. Again, you pause, examine, gain understanding and move beyond the fear.
As you continue to face fear after fear, they diminish in power and frequency and eventually fade away. Meanwhile, all of those inspired actions have led you in the direction of your purpose.
This brings me back to several months ago when I wrote that you’re always heading straight toward where you belong. This is what I meant. Even your fears, your underlying insecurities will lead you to greatness. That is, if you’re willing to unmask them. If you’re willing to know the full truth of who you are and then expand toward whom you are meant to be.
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