Facing My Fears

Fear. I think fear undermines our success in life more than anything. I think fear controls us more than anything. Why are we so paralyzed by fear? I know I am. There are fears about a million little things in regard to our success. I'm not sure I can really do it. It may take more than I can give. It may be the wrong direction completely. What will others think of me? and a million more. But it all boils down to fear. Fear that we are not enough. Fear of our greatness. These are the real fears. And when I really think about it and stop letting unconscious beliefs rule, I know beyond any doubt, cognitively, that I am enough, it's okay to be all that I am. Yet the power of the fear remains. And the only way to deal with it is to go straight through. As is always said, we must "face our fears", so that we can know inside that they are not the truth.
So then, if this is all true, we should be spending our lives looking for opportunities to expose our fears and then do those things we fear until we no longer fear them. What a way to live life. Especially for someone like me who wants to experience peace and comfort in my life as much as possible. Yet also, I have been someone to expose myself to the illusions of life and bring greater reality into the lives of people I work with in my practice. It is such a paradox of life, that the thing we want most is what we are most afraid to go and get. And unless we want to pretend we don't want it anymore and slip into "sleep", we've got to go and do it. Today I will go and face my fears once again. Maybe you can too. ~ Julie