The Anatomy of Fear

Conquer Your Fear

by: Daniel N Brown

Your belief system is the driving force behind your behaviors and your results. If you can change your beliefs, you will change your behaviors. When you change your behaviors, you will change your results. Then, when you change your results, you will change your life.

It all starts with your belief system. Jesus said, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes” (Mark 9:23).

Many things can keep one from believing. But, I think the biggest factor that keeps one from believing is fear and doubt.

Fear and doubt is a common problem from which none of us is immune. They are acquired diseases because we weren’t born with them. They are very contagious and are passed around from one person to another. They impair your normal functioning and keep you from making positive and long lasting changes in your life. If you’re not careful, fear and doubt will cause you to make weak and irrational decisions that sell out your future for the sake of today. They will steal your peace, your joy, and your very life.

Fear is probably the dominant problem in one’s life. 90 percent of the chronic patients who see today’s physicians have one common symptom – fear.

Many different fears are common to us all to some degree, such as a fear of failure, fear of success, fear of losing one’s job, fear of poverty, fear of criticism, fear of illness, fear of rejection, fear of growing old, fear of being separated from loved ones, fear of death, and probably one of the most common fears of all – fear of inadequacy.

Then there are innumerable phobias such as a fear of the dark, fear of high places, fear of closed-in places, fear of insects, and so on.

But, fear is a part of life and a God-given emotion. We rightly fear many things that we should fear. In it’s right place, fear is a strong motivator and protecter.

Fear becomes a problem when it is irrational, such as fears that are imagined. 90 percent of the things we imagine through fear never happen. Much of the remaining 10 percent we often make happen ourselves. Like the person who has a fear of failure; he may get himself so anxious about failing, he will actually, somehow, make himself fail.

Fear terror eye (Photo credit: @Doug88888)

So, how do we overcome our fears?

~ The first step for resolving any problem is to admit you have the problem. Whatever fear you’re experiencing, admit it. It’s ok to feel fear but it’s not ok to let your fear control you. For those who will admit they have a disease called fear, they are more likely to break through it’s control over them.

~ Determine if your fears are imaginary. If so, acknowledge it and refuse to continue to dwell on those fearful thoughts. What the mind dwells on, it magnifies and attracts. It will eventually begin to actually believe that your fearful imaginations are real and act upon them.

~ If your fear is real, accept it and take whatever steps you can to change the circumstances that cause your fear. Keep in mind that courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s the ability to press on dispite the presence of fear. Many times, the solution to any fear is simply – do the thing you fear. It’s amazing how action conquers fear! Try it.

~ If you are fearing a person, or the ‘unknown,’ the best thing to do is simply trust God. There is no greater way to overcome these kinds of fears. The Bible says, “Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe” (Proverbs 29:25). Trust your circumstances to God every day. 1 Peter 5:7 says, “Cast your care on Him for He cares for you.”

Remember, your belief system is the driving force behind your behaviors and your results. If your beliefs are fear driven, they will impair your normal functioning and keep you from making positive and long lasting changes in your life.

If you conquer your fears and doubts, you will conquer failure.

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Overcoming Fear to Reach Your Potential

Overcoming Fear to Reach Your Full Potential

by: Aurelia Williams

Have you ever started a project or set out to do something but stopped right in the middle of it or worse, quit before you even got started. Or have you ever envisioned yourself doing something, like speaking in public or owning your own business, but never even tried to go for it? What was stopping you? Why didn’t you just forge forward and begin taking the steps to reach your goal? The answer is fear.

Most people don’t even realize they have fear or that fear is the reason they don’t reach their goals and dreams. Some people think it’s their background or how they were raised or due to something that happened to them in the past. But the fact is there are hundreds of thousands of people in the world who come from worse backgrounds and situations than you, yet they are now highly successful or even famous. What was the difference? If they can do it why can’t you?

I’m here to tell you, “YOU CAN”! All you have to do is learn to work past fear to reach your full potential. Now, that may not sound easy, and it’s probably not going to be easy, at first. And there may be different situations that bring up different fears inside of you. However, you can learn to push past the fear and do it anyway.

The first step in learning how to push past the fear is recognizing when fear is present. Have you ever had an idea then quickly dismissed it? Or have you ever had a desire for something big but pushed the thought away? Learn to recognize what is going through your mind, how you’re feeling, and what you’re envisioning at that moment. If your immediate thought is something like “I could never have that” or “It must be nice”, stop yourself right then and there. Examine yourself, your feelings and your thoughts. The only thing holding you back is fear.

Fear comes in all different forms for different people. Some people are more fearful than others and then there are those who seem to have no fear at all. However, those who seem to have no fear at all, but actually, truthfully, they have fear. They’ve just learned to push past their fear. And so can you.

Whether your level of fear is enormous and seems to stop you no matter what you want to do in life, or whether your level of fear is on a smaller scale, you can learn to push past your fear to reach your goals and dreams. But, you most likely aren’t going to be able to do it on your own. If you could you’d be reaching your goals and dreams right now and wouldn’t be reading an article on learning how to work past your fears.

Find someone you trust and someone who won’t feed into your fears to help you learn to truly work through your fears so you can reach your full potential.

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The Anatomy of Fear

Conquer Your Fear

by: Daniel N Brown

Your belief system is the driving force behind your behaviors and your results. If you can change your beliefs, you will change your behaviors. When you change your behaviors, you will change your results. Then, when you change your results, you will change your life.

It all starts with your belief system. Jesus said, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes” (Mark 9:23).

Many things can keep one from believing. But, I think the biggest factor that keeps one from believing is fear and doubt.

Fear and doubt is a common problem from which none of us is immune. They are acquired diseases because we weren’t born with them. They are very contagious and are passed around from one person to another. They impair your normal functioning and keep you from making positive and long lasting changes in your life. If you’re not careful, fear and doubt will cause you to make weak and irrational decisions that sell out your future for the sake of today. They will steal your peace, your joy, and your very life.

Fear is probably the dominant problem in one’s life. 90 percent of the chronic patients who see today’s physicians have one common symptom – fear.

Many different fears are common to us all to some degree, such as a fear of failure, fear of success, fear of losing one’s job, fear of poverty, fear of criticism, fear of illness, fear of rejection, fear of growing old, fear of being separated from loved ones, fear of death, and probably one of the most common fears of all – fear of inadequacy.

Then there are innumerable phobias such as a fear of the dark, fear of high places, fear of closed-in places, fear of insects, and so on.

But, fear is a part of life and a God-given emotion. We rightly fear many things that we should fear. In it’s right place, fear is a strong motivator and protecter.

Fear becomes a problem when it is irrational, such as fears that are imagined. 90 percent of the things we imagine through fear never happen. Much of the remaining 10 percent we often make happen ourselves. Like the person who has a fear of failure; he may get himself so anxious about failing, he will actually, somehow, make himself fail.

Fear terror eye (Photo credit: @Doug88888)

So, how do we overcome our fears?

~ The first step for resolving any problem is to admit you have the problem. Whatever fear you’re experiencing, admit it. It’s ok to feel fear but it’s not ok to let your fear control you. For those who will admit they have a disease called fear, they are more likely to break through it’s control over them.

~ Determine if your fears are imaginary. If so, acknowledge it and refuse to continue to dwell on those fearful thoughts. What the mind dwells on, it magnifies and attracts. It will eventually begin to actually believe that your fearful imaginations are real and act upon them.

~ If your fear is real, accept it and take whatever steps you can to change the circumstances that cause your fear. Keep in mind that courage isn’t the absence of fear, it’s the ability to press on dispite the presence of fear. Many times, the solution to any fear is simply – do the thing you fear. It’s amazing how action conquers fear! Try it.

~ If you are fearing a person, or the ‘unknown,’ the best thing to do is simply trust God. There is no greater way to overcome these kinds of fears. The Bible says, “Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe” (Proverbs 29:25). Trust your circumstances to God every day. 1 Peter 5:7 says, “Cast your care on Him for He cares for you.”

Remember, your belief system is the driving force behind your behaviors and your results. If your beliefs are fear driven, they will impair your normal functioning and keep you from making positive and long lasting changes in your life.

If you conquer your fears and doubts, you will conquer failure.

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