Growth Is Often Painful And Scary

One of the most important lessons is how fear is seen in this saga: not as a weakness, but as an enemy that you can face. To overcome fear, the Bene Gesserit, a political and mystic group, created the litany against it:

"I must not fear....

• IF IT’S GONE DOWN THIS MUCH ALREADY, IT CAN’T GO MUCH LOWER.
• YOU CAN ALWAYS TELL WHEN A STOCK’S HIT BOTTOM
• IF IT’S GONE THIS HIGH ALREADY, HOW CAN IT POSSIBLY

GO HIGHER?

• IT’S ONLY $3 A SHARE: WHAT CAN I LOSE?
• EVENTUALLY THEY ALWAYS COME BACK

Anxiety is a normal experience, however, it is not recommended that we let ourselves be consumed by the fear it holds against us.

Being able to deconstruct anxiety will allow us to practice the principle of doing the opposite. With this, we will be able to reverse the responses we...