FEAR

What is fear and how does it effect our lives?
Fear is a response that we CHOOSE when we are dealing with a situation that makes us uncomfortable. Remember my favorite saying; "You are the boss of yourself." it should be followed by "And you are the boss of your emotions." Fear is nothing but a state of mind, we can choose to feed it or address it and move on. Keep in mind that if we do not address our fears we are indeed feeding them and they will only get worse. Think about the last time you were dreading a phone call you had to make or the last time you had to make a speech in front of a crowd. The longer you put it off, the more you thought about it. The more you thought about it the worse you felt about it. Until eventually your stomach was tied in knots and you were full of fear and anxiety. But as soon as you had done that which you were dreading/fearing all your feelings of anxiety were vanished. Why not address the fear quickly and save ourselves and our stomachs all the anxiety?

In "The Magic of Thinking Big" David J Schwartz PhD says that we should " Use action to cure fear and gain confidence....Action feeds and strengthens confidence; inaction in all forms feeds fear. To fight fear, act . To increase fear- wait, put off, postpone..."

You have all heard me say this more than once but here I go again, "Energy flows where attention goes." and "What you resist persists." (James A Ray), which means according to the law of attraction when we focus our energy on what we don't want or what we are fearing it is only going to attract more of what we don't want into our lives. All the more reason to address our fears and get over them quickly.