The more something scares you, the more you should probably do it.
With the exception of genuinely life-threatening or physically harmful activities, our fight-or-flight response kicks in when we’re confronted with past traumas or actualizing the self we dream of being.
These are all things that make you scared, and they make you scared because they are things that should be done.
What one holds in mind tends to manifest. What this means is that any thought that we consistently hold in mind and consistently give energy to will tend to come into our life according to the very form in which our mind has held it. Thus, fear engenders fearful thoughts. The more we hold these thoughts in mind, the more likely the feared event will happen in our life, which again reinforces our fear.
When we stop being afraid of fear, we notice that it is just a feeling.
Fear really sucks because what it means is you’re not focusing on what you’re doing. You’re focusing on the consequences of failing at what you’re doing because any given move should require all your concentration and thought processes to execute it effectively.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
– Christopher Columbus
The shock therapy: Comfort zone challenges
One method to get results incredibly fast is the “Comfort Zone Challenges”. In your comfort zone are the activities that do not cost you any mental energy. As soon as something really challenges you, it lies outside your comfort zone, in your growth zone.
The Comfort Zone Challenges work like this:
To overcome your fears, you intentionally put yourself in situations that are (extremely) uncomfortable for you at first. You provoke this fear to be able to face it. It is not important to fight against fear. Just the intense feeling and endurance of this fear alone makes it noticeably shrink.
Depending on how open you already are, you may need to adjust your comfort zone Challenges. Because as soon as you step out of your comfort zone, you suddenly have room to grow!
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