Is Fear Stopping You From Really Living Your Life?
Fear starts off as a symptom of the cause of your thinking, very quickly it can become the cause of your actions.
There are few fears that we are not able to get rid of if we know the true cause of our fearful thinking. My daughter has a fear of spiders, now it’s not the spiders she is actually afraid of it’s what they could do to her, this fear manifested itself when she was bitten by a spider at a young age, she remembers what it felt like to be bitten and now when she sees a spider it triggers the unhappy memory and her thoughts apply the memory to all spiders. Her fear of spiders is triggered by a memory of a bad time if she could let go of the memory then the fear would not have a hold on her. .
Usually we can trace our fearful thoughts back to something unpleasant that has happened in the past, it might not have happened to us but someone we were close to and when we find ourselves in a similar scenario we project the unpleasant memories of it into the future and then the symptom of fearing the future appears. If you can let go of painful memories from the past you won’t have any fear to project into the future. Sometimes the fear isn't even yours you are reacting to someone else fear.
To let go of fear you have to let go of memories that trigger the fearful thinking, and to do that you have to go to the root cause of those memories.
It is no good facing the fear and doing it anyway if you don’t know the root cause of the fearful thinking, because all you will do is deal with the symptom but the cause will still be there and it will eventually rear it’s ugly head again, and you will continue to manifest the cause of your fear because you are not getting rid of it.
It can sometimes be a painful thing to look at but once you get rid of it that’s it, it no longer has a hold on you and can no longer dictate to you what your actions will be and thus you are free from fearful thinking and free to walk forward with confidence knowing that something that harmed you in the past can’t do so again.
Blessings.