Overcoming Fear. | A Course Within

As we all know people across the world people have lost their jobs, their financial sites and have since given up since the pandemic of COVID-19 broke out.

So what’s next for us? Are we going to use the fear of the current situation to control us, or are we going to use this time to become our better selves?

What is it we can change? What’s in our sites than we can make better? Many people have realised the fact that their lives are stressful and confined and are feeling emotions that they never knew where there and on top, dealing with the emotions of the people that they live with, creating an even more difficult time than normal.

Fear is a fundamental part of life. It is a normal feeling to be fearful of things we consider serious.

When recognising the things that I am most afraid of, the obstacles that make me want to stop in life, I see them for what they are, and become grateful for them. Even when they continue to tell me not to go ahead.

But just as it benefits us, it can also be our greatest barrier. It very much comes natural to view everything as being harmful.

We barricade ourselves in and build a protective wall.

Our safe spot is our comfort zone

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We all deal with being be scared, it’s within us. The variation rests in how we control it.

Stating, that it will be more relevant for me to handle this, than not to, right? When all said and done it will not mean anything that I’ve faced it, I will feel a true way eventually, the other way I will not.

It all comes down to decisively deciding to undertake fear and develop, or to hide and suffer from it, allowing fear to define the life you create. There’s an old saying that goes “ A coward dies a thousand times but a brave man dies, but once.

Without even knowing it, the richest place in the world is the cemetery. Think about it, it’s filled with so many dreams, wasted talents, visions gone blind, that people for some reason or another, mostly fear never take advantage of those gifts given to them. You can never trick the person you see in the reflection.

We need to put ourselves out there, go upfront, these adventures will develop our attitude, it’s in these moments we demonstrate that, do you know what, it’s not as bad as I thought. In a nutshell, what’s the worst that can happen? you don’t meet expectation? usually set by you, fall on your face and have to pick up your pride? Get back up, look at that reflection in the mirror and wait for the bell for the next round, confident, more adapted, recognising what is to be expected.

I understood that I was building a decision before I even encountered one. So I said, if that’s the case I need to create something more beneficial on the other side, something that’s going to support me and push me to use the key I have (courage) and open the door (opportunity)

We have to remember the people we look up too, the people who have done amazing things, carved the way. It was never that these great people weren’t scared, its just they used their fear as a stepping stone to build a staircase to achieve.

Its all part of growing that we have such an attraction, and we should, to the great minds of history. Just picture Neil Armstrong glancing back for the last time before boarding the rocket, making history for the first time for humans to touch the moon.

The American colonists signing the Declaration of Independence. Where would these people be if they caved into their emotions and thoughts of fear?

Because they most certainly did experience these feelings and thoughts. How different would life be for them and history if they never pushed fear into the back seat?

So all I ask is, is that you take the view of that, you will find a way, find a way to cross that river of doubt, fear, uncertainty because it’s on the other side of these that dreams are achieved, goals are met and life is what you have created and all becomes a reality.

It’s here where your world changes, if you just allow yourself permission to overcome the fear that holds so many of us back.

Originally published at https://acoursewithin.com on June 1, 2020.