Hello, I hope you are having a good day. Today I would like to continue in the series about conquering fear, particularly as it applies to developing a home based business, but also as it applies to any other area of your life. So using ideas that I am going to be sharing with you, you will be able to be effective in all the circumstances of your life.
One of the areas that I know is necessary to do is to discern
how we “rehearse” fear. Many folks spend a lot of time making up scenarios in
their minds. What we do in our minds is not that much different from a TV show, or similar to a soap opera, where
there’s a lot of emotion going on. We're characters and at the same time we are
imagining.
Really, this scene hasn't reallly occurred. We just are making it up because of some
event that’s happened in our lives. And I call this “rehearsing fear.”
What is going on is that we're basically making up a scene that is
related to circumstances that we're afraid of, and then we
react emotionally to those scenes. And that really then increases
our fear.
One of my favorite Scriptures is where Jesus announces to “Be not afraid.”
I know that this is an important point to comprehend because He isn’t saying,
“Do not have fear.” He is saying “Be not afraid,” meaning “Don’t do
things to increase your fear. Do not be in the state of fear. Don’t
dwell there mentally.” Everyone are going to have the feeling of fear
occasionally, but we don’t have to dwell there. There are things that
we are able to do to help us not be afraid.
So one of the things which we can begin to do is to put other concepts
into our minds in place of the fear. I will teach you an example of a strategy to make that
transition from anxious thoughts to other thoughts. One of the things
that I believe is crucial is that we need to learn to recognize the
moment that we begin to create these dreadful scenarioes. I have
counselled lots of folks over time, and it often takes a few
minutes before they understand that they are into this other scene that
actually is not correct; they are just making it up. And so what we have to
learn to do is become aware of the moment that we’re into this
scene of dreadful stuff, whether it applies to our family life or our
friendships or business.
The moment that you’re thinking about stuff that in reality hasn’t come
true, you are imagining some scenario in the future. Nipping it in the
bud is really crucial, and at the moment you discover what you’re doing, you may then start to fill
your mind with other thoughts such as thoughts of thanksgiving. You are going to be able to nip the
fear in the bud. It just won’t continue as long as you focus on thanksgiving, because you can’t target
both things at the same time.
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