How To Embrace and Overcome Fear
Despite how we humans try and take away risk and uncertainty, there’s still plenty to go around.
I read this very interesting history book a while back that said the story of man is a story of a timid, fearful, and lazy people trying to invent new things to make life easier, safer and less scary.
Regardless of who you are and where you come from, you’ve demonstrated countless times that you are fully capable of facing risk in the face, taking action, and getting what you want.
The fact that you are reading this now is proof of this.
So why do we still feel timid, afraid and on the fence whenever an opportunity presents itself?
One of the reasons is our brains are hard wired to be more aware of potential danger than potential opportunities.
This is a biological, chemical and physical aspect of our brains. The neural pathways that carry fear based impulses are physically thicker than the pathways that carry potential pleasure.
We all like to eat, right? Imagine you’re sitting there in your favorite restaurant, about to dig into your favorite food. Just as you’re about to bite into it, a huge tiger appears to your right.
What happens to your hunger? It vanishes quicker than a sliver of ice in a volcano!
On a very basic, primitive level, moving toward pleasure is great, so long as our lives aren’t in danger.
But as I’m sure you know, living in the modern world is rarely a life or death decision. Far far from it.
But our primitive brains sometimes can’t tell the difference.
Sure, you might logically conclude that there’s no danger walking over and talking to that interesting looking stranger, but your subconscious might have something to say about it.
But as I mentioned above, you’ve got a HUGE collection of experiences where you looked fear in the eye, laughed at it, and took action anyhow.
Once you learn how to access THOSE memories, automatically, instead of those other ones, it will be easy.
Instead of seeming like some scary event after scary event, life will become an adventure. Trying and “failing” won’t feel bad, it will feel good. Because every step, no matter what happens, is a step closer to what you want.
No matter what it is.
That’s what the Frame Control program is all about. To shift your automatic thinking from recalling times when you felt like a “victim” to those times when you were a champion.
When that happens, you’ll walk the Earth with a purpose.
And many people will follow.