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What Is Fear?

What Is Fear?

Fear only exists to you in your mind and it is protecting you from the unknown. 

As human being, it's going to be normal to feel fear. It's going to happen for the rest of your life, but you do now want to let your fear control you. That is the choice that you get to make.

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Action Dissolves Fear

Action Dissolves Fear

You want to feel the fear and do it anyway.

When you're sitting there doing nothing, only thinking, you allow your thoughts and your fears to run how you feel about yourself.

When you are not taking action, you live more in your mind. It's all really...

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Debunk Your Fears

Debunk Your Fears

"There's nothing to fear but fear itself"

Most of the time it's not the thing that you're afraid of. It's the actual fear that's holding you back. 

You should be afraid of the fear, because the fear is going to hold you back more than a hypotetical situation ...

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"Are These Thoughts Evidence-based or am I Just Thinking Irrationally?"

"Are These Thoughts Evidence-based or am I Just Thinking Irrationally?"

You always have the power to choose your thoughts. When we're afraid, we focus on the negative thoughts, when in reality there are so many other positive thoughts that can support you. 

Your fear is just one thought, is just one option. But there are other thoughts and other options...

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A Metaphor of Fear -- Book: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

A Metaphor of Fear -- Book: Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

You are on this road trip of life. You are the driver and fear is that loud baby in the back seat. it's going to bother you and it might get in your head

But you have to accept that your fear will be there with you during this ride. And even though you accept that the baby ...

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Fear

Fear is a universal experience. It is not a dreadful thing to feel fear when faced with the unknown. It's part of being alive.

We should become intimate with fear instead of treating it as a problem to be solved. Out of that arises strength.

Action Dissolves Fear

Action Dissolves Fear

You want to feel the fear and do it anyway.

When you're sitting there doing nothing, only thinking, you allow your thoughts and your fears to run how you feel about yourself.

When you are not taking action, you live more in your mind. It's all really...

About Fear

About Fear

  • Most people are in the dark about their fears. The unknown, random and unwanted scenarios or events that could happen in the future, forms the general anxiety known as fear. This can include a fear of losing one’s job, getting sick with a virus, or getting old.
  • Some fears ...

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