Fear has the power to hold you back from taking risks, being authentic, following your dreams, or becoming successful at anything you attempt to do.  If you allow fear to take control, your quality of life will start to diminish, you can sink into a deep depression and you can feel stuck and unable to make decisions.

What many people fail to realize is that fear is nothing more than a conditioned response to “not knowing”.  It’s a natural reaction to a frightening or unfamiliar situation. While it is usually automatic, there are things you can do to overcome it.

1)  Check your expectations.

One major contributor of fear is the existence of negative expectations.  Do you usually find yourself expecting the worst in every situation?  Do you worry obsessively about what could go wrong, rather than focusing on your strengths and capabilities?

Make a conscious effort to have no expectations, or at the least expect good things to happen. If you expect nothing, you can’t be disappointed. If you anticipate and look at the positive side of each situation and it doesn’t go your way, at least you wouldn’t have wasted unnecessary emotions on worry.  Having expectations can set you up for failure. So why not just let the chips fall where they may and deal with it then?

2)  Get control over your imagination

The majority of things you fear will never come to pass anyway.  It’s a fact. If you look a little more closely at your fears when they arise, you may be able to dismiss them one by one.

Fears arise due to our unknowing of how a situation will play out. So, we make up all sorts of scenarios and of course, most of them are absolutely ridiculous. Our imagination is our worst enemy in situations we are trying to avoid.

So why not ask yourself when you are placed in a situation of fear if the fear is actually warranted or if you’re creating an excuse not to do or face something. Ask yourself if you are unnecessarily adding “drama” to your situation so you won’t have to follow through with it. You’ll be surprised by what you discover.

3)  Do the very thing you fear.

Did you know that fear is merely an emotion or feeling? It’s true. It can’t harm you and you can choose to ignore it completely and move forward. Think about that for a minute. Fear is an emotion. There is nothing tangible about it. It is created in your mind and felt by your body. Period.

Now that’s not to say that you have to completely ignore your fears. After all, fear is a survival emotion. It is supposed to warn us of dangers, etc. But most fear in today’s world is self-inflicted. So in terms of these fears, you can weigh your options in any given situation and then make a decision based on the real facts (not your fabricated facts).

If you tackle your fears head on, you’ll find out how quickly your courage will turn into confidence and that’s always a good thing. So empower yourself to know that fear is easily overcome and attempt to do the very things that scare you (without being life threatening). Good luck!

Love and blessings,
Dina Marie Blas

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