04/20/2020
I have come to realize that fear is not my enemy but my ally. Why do I fear? I fear because I doubt and don’t trust. I don’t believe in myself sometimes, and fear is there to remind me, to wake me up and shake me back into a place of trusting and believing.
In moments of fear, I now pause, take a very deep breath in, and tell my self-deprecating thoughts to shut the hell up! If I fail, it doesn’t matter. I will get up and try again and again!
How do we stop ourselves from being fearful?
The thing is, we don’t and we can’t. Why would we want fear to go away! Fear is a human experience. Fear does not have to govern you or prevent you from doing the things that scare you. Fear is not asking you to stop!
Instead, as we begin to see fear as a cheerleader, a teacher that is offering you in those scary moments, some real nuggets of wisdom, fear challenges you to listen, to believe in your abilities, and to trust the fierce person you are!
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it. Feel the fear and do it anyhow.
Credits: Sara Rahel Yoga