“We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt, U.S. President
You are a unique individual.You are destined for greatness!
Every human being on Earth has the ability to achieve something spectacular that only their uniqueness allows.
However not everyone achieves this.They live their lives in mediocrity with their greatness inside them.
You were only born with two natural inbuilt fear!
A fear of falling and a fear of loud noises.
These two fears were built into our DNA and passed on from generation to generation as a survival mechanism.
Its only purpose was to keep as alive by alerting us to a potential danger and thus creating an emotion within us to avoid danger.
So if you were not born with other fears where did they come from?
The answer to this is that at some point in your life your adopted them.
Some past event caused you to associate danger or a painfull experience and now you are really motivated to avoid experiencing that negative emotion.
We human beings associate things with a high emotional intensity.If you have to think of the day of 911 you will proberlby remember exactly where you were and what you did on that day.It was a very emotional experience that shocked the whole world.
We are motivated by two things : to avoid pain or to gain pleasure.
If we associate something as painful we become fearful.
What are you you fearful of? Why are you allowing your fears to stop you from achieving what it is that you really want?
What is it that you really want that will bring you pleasure.?
We basically need to reverse our fears and make them into something pleasureable.
When I was 13 years old I got into a fight in school and I decided to take up the Martial Arts.I took a negative fearfull and scary experience
and turned it into something positive.A year later after that experience I entered into a tournament and I fought somebody who was much bigger then me. Was I scared? No ways, I was very excited! I thought to myself yes I might get hurt however I am going to be courageous and I may be small however I am much faster and I remember the saying ‘The bigger they are the harder they fall.’ So hmm this looks like the opportunity to put that to the test and face my fear and you know what I won and yip that saying is very true.
So you see the thing about fear is that its a learnt experience and the great thing is you can unlearn the fear.However you need to know what is causing it and what can you do to overcome it.
Be courageous my friend!
Be on the lookout for Part 2 – Overcoming Fear
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Our Greatest Fear
Marianne Williamson from her book “A Return to Love”
‘Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.We ask ourselves,
Who am I to be brilliant,gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us. It is not just in some; it is in everyone.
And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.’
