Here are my thoughts for today on my challenge to you.
Life is a process that you can take with both hands or fear it, and allow the fear to rule your life.
Fear and how it can rule you
There are so many fears you can have:
- Fear of ending up a Bag Lady
- Fear of Being Homeless
- Fear of something happening to a loved one
- Fear of serious illness
- Fear of death
- Fear of rejection
- Fear of failure
- Fear of embarrassing yourself
- Fear of not being good enough
- Fear of being found out
- Fear of Ageing
- Fear of fulfilling your Potential
I could go on as the list is endless, and you can add to it or do your own list.
When you don’t allow fear to rule you
If you don’t allow it to rule you and simply acknowledge it, ‘yes, I’m afraid and I’m going to do it anyway’, here is my list of what could happen.
- You can be generous with yourself and others
- You can stand up and be visible
- You can start dancing again
- You can allow yourself to sing again
- You can stretch yourself by coming out of your comfort zone
- You can acknowledge your gratitude for things small and large
- You can see that you have choice
- You can enjoy the mystery of life
- You can accept those opportunities that were there all along
- You can see life is an adventure
- You can see yourself as a success regardless
- You can find that there’s excitement mixed in with your fear
Once again, only you will know what would happen if you faced your fear and did it anyway.
My work
In my work with clients and supervisees, I encourage them to get to know this part of them, this fear, and to make friends with it. It may always be there and won’t go away so it is better to get to know and include it.
How do I do that?
In the Psychosynthesis model I use, I would ask you to a give name to this sub-personality – your fear, then to see what it wants from you, and then to see what gift it has to offer you. Always there is a gift for you behind every part.
Remember, to be more at ease with yourself, it would serve you to get to know all these parts of you.
Legacy
As you want to co-create a better world that you know in your heart is possible, you must begin with yourself. It may not happen in this life-time (you may not see the fruits of this) and you can enable the steps toward it for generations to come.
Look forward to hearing from you.
