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Overcome Fear to Reach Your Full Potential - Page 2

© Jerry Lopper

Even without the effect of fundamental religion, most of our fears stem from the fear of loss of life or loss of love. Pick any fear you currently feel and trace it back to it's root; I'm certain you'll find that you're afraid of personal harm--death at it's extreme--or emotional harm--the withdrawal of love from someone important to you.

The Impact of Fear

Fear is merely an emotion, a very strong emotion to be sure, but simply an emotion. Fear helps us avoid dangerous situations in childhood. Now that we've reached adulthood, self empowerment suggests we examine our fears. Do our fears serve us or hinder us? So many of us live each day moving from one fear to another, without realizing its impact.

Fear robs us of our creativity. While in a fearful state, our body's resources are mobilized to deal with the feared event, making it difficult to focus on anything else. You've experienced this if you've ever been fearful for the health and survival of a loved one, or if you've feared an event which would radically alter your life. It's very difficult to be positive, creative, and energetic while at the bedside of an ill loved one or while watching the approach of a severe weather event.

Temporary loss of creativity isn't the worst of it. Excessive focus on a feared event can actually attract to us exactly the event that we fear. This is the Law of Attraction; we create what we focus upon. The frequency of vibration of the energy we generate tends to attract events of similar frequency.

While focused on a feared event, we lose a wonderful gift--the present. Since feared events are always future events, when we're focused upon these we fail to appreciate the present moment. Unfortunately, we're missing out on life one second at a time. Life is the present moment. All we ever have is the present. That is the gift of life. The past is over; it's value is in what we've learned. The future is uncertain; no one can foretell the future with certainty.

Fear is like being in a rocking chair; you use a lot of energy but you don't get anywhere. Yoda, of Star Wars fame, summarized fear this way: "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering."

Overcoming Your Fears

Several years ago I decided enough was enough; I decided that I was tired of living my life based on fear. Instead, I determined to lead a life focused on love and joy. If you feel that pull to free yourself of fears here are some tips that will help you.

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