The Things We’re Afraid of.

I believe we all want to be seen, to be heard, to have the courage to go after the things we want, the things that really matter to us yet so often we rather distract ourselves, hide behind our excuses, and avoid the things we have to do that will give us that. ⁣⁣
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We are afraid we will be rejected so we sacrifice our own happiness and wellbeing to make others happy. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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We are afraid of speaking up and expressing our own voice so we hide our emotions. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣We are afraid of failing so we give up trying and abandon the things we love. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣We are afraid of being happy so we stop asking for what we want and deserve. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣We are afraid of being still so we fill our days with tasks, responsibilities, and endless thoughts. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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After a lot of soul searching these past couple of years, I realized I had let myself become paralyzed by my own fears, and for no good reason at all. I was afraid of so many things without knowing what I was most afraid of was the things I didn’t need to be afraid of. This made me learn an important lesson:⁣⁣
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It’s not the fear itself that’s our enemy. It’s our own thoughts. ⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣⁣
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All fear is, is nothing more than an illusion created by the mind to keep us safe. In some situations, our fears are indeed helpful, yet in others they can also hold us back from saying what we really mean, showing our true feelings for someone, trying something new, fulfill our desires, accepting, letting go, opening up for change, love, growth. ⁣⁣
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My goal as I’ve been working on my fears is not to never feel this feeling again rather learn how I can live side by side with the things I fear. How I can work with them by unlearning and reframing my relationship with them. It’s been a growing learning curve and I have never felt more free. ⁣⁣
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Facing the things we’re afraid of has nothing to do with being brave. It’s about doing something different than you’ve been doing now, making the conscious decision to stop feeding the fears that are stopping you from being, doing, and having what you really want and practice a new way. ⁣

What will you do differently today?