Ep 19 - How Fear Prevents Us from Trying New Things

2021-09-30

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Does your fear often stop you from pursuing your goals? Is fear only a messenger? Can you trust yourself to look at what is on the other side of uncertainty? 1 – Social fear: being afraid to do something foolish that could get you kicked out of your group or community. 2 – Physical fear: being afraid of physical pain and harm to the body. 3 – Ego fear: being afraid of feeling bad about yourself. When people look at the reality of the fears and question it, we come to find that the fears are not nearly as big a...

Does your fear often stop you from pursuing your goals? Is fear only a messenger? Can you trust yourself to look at what is on the other side of uncertainty?

1 – Social fear: being afraid to do something foolish that could get you kicked out of your group or community.

2 – Physical fear: being afraid of physical pain and harm to the body.

3 – Ego fear: being afraid of feeling bad about yourself.

When people look at the reality of the fears and question it, we come to find that the fears are not nearly as big as we think.

Through challenging our fear, we come to find that we catastrophize them. We may be worrying about worrying, instead of feeling anything specific that relates to our current reality.

Question your fear to find what the root cause of it is, gift yourself with objectivity, and move through it towards your goal.

Fear should not stop you from doing anything. Fear is only a messenger that is telling you what is important to you, and that can also be a gift.

In this episode, I speak with Angie Morgan about: