I frequently write about fear. Some of my recent posts are:
I do it because fear is like a seed that grows inside and drains your soul. Overcoming it is not a one-time act, it’s a process, a direction in life. There’s no moment in which it doesn’t try to find a crack and root itself in. There’s always something and you need to remind yourself why we should not be afraid of things we can’t control.
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This is so true. Yes, why be fearful of the things we can’t control? Great question, for most of us it takes courage to admit that we have no control. Any suggestions on how we grow courage to accept what we can not control?
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I don’t think it’s about courage, I think it’s more of a point of view. With the right point of view, there are only a handful of fears that exist and are worth your energy, like the fear of loss of loved ones, health scares in the family, and a few others of the same magnitude. So if the current one is not one of these, there’s no trigger.
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Well, I would add that there are some of us that might also let that fear of uncertainty turn into worrying, perhaps overworrying. It’s what I go through almost everyday. It’s part of dealing with/managing my chronic anxiety.
And you are so right when you say that it is not something that happens overnight. It has taken me many years to work on managing my anxieties (doing my best to stop myself before my genuine concerns and stress tip over into worrying). Even now, it is something that I’m still working on.
I might have gotten slightly better at managing my fears/anxieties, but I think this something I’ll have to face and manage for the rest of my life.
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Same, I suffered from this for 8 years. Read many books that were supposed to help me. At some point, with the help of a therapist, something flipped, like a switch, and it’s all gone. All the things I did over the years were like puzzle pieces that lined up together.
I can still feel anxiety but the magnitude is different and the trigger has to be a lot more personal.
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Very true. As someone that was seeking professional help for most of my life, I totally understand what you mean. For me, it took a lot longer for sure, but eventually, things did get better too. Similarly, these days, it requires something truly bad to trigger one of my episodes. Well, I’m just glad that it doesn’t happen as often as it used to all those years ago.
For me, the “moment” that changed it was in 2015 when I finally decided to follow my passion and set my own path. It was the first time I felt this weight being lifted off my shoulders. That was the only significant change so far.
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There are so many wonderful things in Dune, and the litany against fear is one of the greatest for me. For me it’s profound that you should allow fear to pass through you and over you, accept it and not resist it.
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One of the ideas I encountered was to treat it like an old an annoying friend. Let it come, let it go, let yourself react to it with irritation.
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Let fear go, is simple yet how does one do it?
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I believe getting rid of most of it is doable by knowing yourself, the thinking errors your brain makes, and the root of all fears. Eliminating all fear is probably not doable.
I’m no therapist though, so what worked for me may not be the universal truth.
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