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Jul 19, 2013 · It can paralyze you. It can keep you from your dreams. It can keep you small. It can also keep you safe. Fear can be your friend in just the right doses, but too much of it can kill you. My...
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- Fear is healthy. Fear is hardwired in your brain, and for good reason: Neuroscientists have identified distinct networks that run from the depths of the limbic system all the way to the prefrontal cortex and back.
- Fear comes in many shades. Fear is an inherently unpleasant experience that can range from mild to paralyzing—from anticipating the results of a medical checkup to hearing news of a deadly terrorist attack.
- Fear is not as automatic as you think. Fear is part instinct, part learned, part taught. Some fears are instinctive: Pain, for example, causes fear because of its implications for survival.
- You don’t need to be in danger to be scared. Fear is also partly imagined, and so it can arise in the absence of something scary. In fact, because our brains are so efficient, we begin to fear a range of stimuli that are not scary (conditioned fear) or not even present (anticipatory anxiety).
Sep 23, 2009 · Nothing makes us more uncomfortable than fear. And we have so many fears: fear of pain, disease, injury, failure, not being accepted, missing an opportunity, and being scammed, to name a few.
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At the basic level fear guides our fight or flight responses and helps to keep us safe and alive. Fear heightens your senses and awareness; it keeps you alert and helps in better preparation. The negative side of fear is when it holds you back from doing something positive. Most people already know and are aware of what types of fear they face. Com...
What is the driving force behind your fear? Who is on the driver’s seat you or your fear? What is the foundation of the fear? What is the root cause? What triggers the fear? Is there someone else who has faced the same fear? How did they cope with it? Are there any takeaways and lessons to be learned from others? Know that everyone faces fear at on...
What do you want to achieve in life? Make a clear definition of your visionand success and back-it with the hunger to want to achieve. Create goals that will set you up for success and keep you in a trajectory where you can run consistently and have confidence to jump over obstacles on your path including fear. Have the will to breakout, transcend ...
Fear highlights the distance between where you are now and the goal to be achieved. Preparation includes feeding yourself with positive encouragement, inspiration, reading about others who have accomplished their goals and letting their stories be a source of motivation, imagining yourself as having achieved the goal and letting this mental imagery...
Fear prompts one to identify choices and options, analyze them and evaluate your best course of action. Analyze but don’t overanalyze. Watch out for paralysis of analysis or over analysis which is one part of the problem, the second part of the problem is taking the wrong action. Evaluate advantages and disadvantages of solutions, anticipate proble...
Is it worth it? How much do I desire the outcome? This is a key question to ask when you have a dream and fear is holding you back. What do you have to do to achieve your goal? What is the worst that can happen? What are the major benefits of proceeding? What will happen if you don’t proceed? Will you regret your decision later in life? Will you be...
Fear forces you to examine the real or imagined barriers that are holding you back from achieving your goals. Barriers include anxiety, inaction, need for control, defensiveness, fearing you can’t do it, comfortable with the way things are, uncertainty, time and effort required, not knowing any other way of doing things, overwhelming thinking of th...
Presence of fear when undertaking a big goal tells you are stretching yourself and getting out of your comfort zone. The main worry would be can I do this? The fear can stem from not being sure about how to do things? You wonder if your preferred mode of operation would work. Should you do things the same way? Is there a better way to do it? What m...
Fear tells you that something could be missing. What resources do I have and what don’t I have? It makes you realize that you don’t have all the answers. At the same time it is humbling to know you don’t have all the answers and this encourages caution and guides our progress to take steps such as learning from others and learning by yourself. Get ...
How far did you go the last time when you faced fear and proceeded anyway? How much further can you go this time? Turn your fears into a personal competition where you set a target for yourself and seek to break your own records over and over again. Compete with yourself. Assess what goals and targets you have set for yourself in the past, take sto...
Fear is a survival instinct that can also motivate you to achieve your goals. Learn how to overcome fear and use it to your advantage with these 15 tips and examples.
Oct 25, 2022 · Fear is a healthy and adaptive emotion, according to psychologists. Here’s their definition, how it affects the body, and how to better cope with it.
Oct 16, 2023 · The full-body effect of fear can be exhilarating, and psychologically, we can feel satisfaction or even triumph when the object of fear goes away. Experts break down why getting scared can be...
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