Tanner40
17-11-13, 13:03
Good morning! It seems that we all talk a lot about fear. Fear of physical symptoms, fear of anxiety, fear of panic attacks, fear of deadly diseases. Me included. The nature of the beast, so to speak. There is much of the time that I'm not living my life to the fullest extent because I'm allowing my fears to control me.
Someone on here recommended a book to me and I downloaded it onto my tablet. Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway. I've only read the first eighty pages but the revelations (for me) have been astounding, yet simple.
"At the bottom of every one of your fears is simply the fear that you can't handle whatever life may bring you."
"All you have to do to diminish your fears is to develop more trust in your ability to handle whatever comes your way."
I stopped and thought, and as bad have thing have been in the past, there has never been anything that life threw at me that I couldn't handle. I didn't fall to pieces and not recover. I didn't go mad. I didn't die. I may not have liked how I felt and it may have been terribly unpleasant but I did handle it.
So it's not really the fear of the unknown that gets me; it's the fear that I won't be able to handle it and all the ensuing "what if's" that go along with it.
Something really clicks with me and resonates about this. Just wanted to see what others thought?
Someone on here recommended a book to me and I downloaded it onto my tablet. Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway. I've only read the first eighty pages but the revelations (for me) have been astounding, yet simple.
"At the bottom of every one of your fears is simply the fear that you can't handle whatever life may bring you."
"All you have to do to diminish your fears is to develop more trust in your ability to handle whatever comes your way."
I stopped and thought, and as bad have thing have been in the past, there has never been anything that life threw at me that I couldn't handle. I didn't fall to pieces and not recover. I didn't go mad. I didn't die. I may not have liked how I felt and it may have been terribly unpleasant but I did handle it.
So it's not really the fear of the unknown that gets me; it's the fear that I won't be able to handle it and all the ensuing "what if's" that go along with it.
Something really clicks with me and resonates about this. Just wanted to see what others thought?