Best Life of Your Life: Episode 3
The way most people handle fear is pretty interesting. It seems to be one of those things that most people deal with by using one of two extremes.
- Attack! We let loose the roaring battle-cries: No-Fear, Have no Fear, Be Fearless, Fear is the Enemy…ugh, you get the idea
- We completely submit and let it stop us from doing what we actually wanted to do. So, now what?
Sometimes people admit when fear stops them, other times they'll deny it, most of the time we're honestly oblivious because the fear is hiding in the subconscious.
We often look at a byproduct of fear and mistakenly think it was some inevitable event.
We'll say phrases like “it wasn't meant to be”, “it wasn't for me”, “I didn't feel comfortable”. Very often these phrases are just code for I WAS SCARED.
So what should we do about fear? Doesn't it rob us of our potential and our greatest desires? Shouldn't we crush it, smash it, obliterate it — this is our life and fear is stopping us! This is WAR… or is it?
Ok, let's calm down and think about this for a minute.
What is fear? – It's just an emotion.
Who owns it? – We do.
Can we control it? – Yes. Well, no — I mean — ugh, we don't need to! It has no arms or legs! It's not physically stopping you because it's not a tangible THING to be physically controlled.
Then what can help us? – Perspective. Recognizing the moments when the emotion of fear is being brought to the forefront of your mind, then deciding whether we need to be obeying it, or if we can just set it aside.
Listen to this episode, and be free.
Best Life of Your Life: The BLOYL Podcast with Aaron Keith Hawkins
Useful perspectives we discover in Episode 3:
-
Fear Thins Out the Competition
-
Fear can Promote (trigger) Objective Thinking
-
How to Recognize “Quality” Fears
-
Fear can be Exhilarating
Best Life of Your Life: Episode 3
The way most people handle fear is pretty interesting. It seems to be one of those things that most people deal with by using one of two extremes.
- Attack! We let loose the roaring battle-cries: No-Fear, Have no Fear, Be Fearless, Fear is the Enemy…ugh, you get the idea
- We completely submit and let it stop us from doing what we actually wanted to do. So, now what?
Sometimes people admit when fear stops them, other times they'll deny it, most of the time we're honestly oblivious because the fear is hiding in the subconscious.
We often look at a byproduct of fear and mistakenly think it was some inevitable event.
We'll say phrases like “it wasn't meant to be”, “it wasn't for me”, “I didn't feel comfortable”. Very often these phrases are just code for I WAS SCARED.
So what should we do about fear? Doesn't it rob us of our potential and our greatest desires? Shouldn't we crush it, smash it, obliterate it — this is our life and fear is stopping us! This is WAR… or is it?
Ok, let's calm down and think about this for a minute.
What is fear? – It's just an emotion.
Who owns it? – We do.
Can we control it? – Yes. Well, no — I mean — ugh, we don't need to! It has no arms or legs! It's not physically stopping you because it's not a tangible THING to be physically controlled.
Then what can help us? – Perspective. Recognizing the moments when the emotion of fear is being brought to the forefront of your mind, then deciding whether we need to be obeying it, or if we can just set it aside.
Listen to this episode, and be free.
Best Life of Your Life: The BLOYL Podcast with Aaron Keith Hawkins
Useful perspectives we discover in Episode 3:
-
Fear Thins Out the Competition
-
Fear can Promote (trigger) Objective Thinking
-
How to Recognize “Quality” Fears
-
Fear can be Exhilarating