Fear is Your New Power Tool
In order to make changes in your behavior, you must be in a present, positive, and possessed state of mind. Once you do that, changes will be made, and seem like little effort.
Once you are possessed, identifying and conquering fear is the next step toward a new positive attitude. Fear can be a very limiting emotion when it is used as an excuse to stop moving forward. Which fears are hindering your path to success?
It's Super Bowl time, so let's imagine you're the quarterback in the final moments of the 4th quarter of the big game and the score is tied. Your teammates are counting on you, your family is so proud of you and of course millions of viewers are watching you across the nation. Feeling the pressure? Ominous, isn't it? So what's running through your mind? Do you see yourself doing the victory dance covered in champagneor back in the locker room with your head in your hands?
When you are confident in your abilities, your fear and adrenaline will propel you to succeed on the field of life. If you are paralyzed by fear, you have no chance for success. You will either conquer your fears or they will conquer you.
Many wise statements have been made about fearprobably the most often quoted: 'You've nothing to fear but fear itself,' but let's look at this quote by Robert Heller: 'Fear is excitement without breath.'
Fear is an emotion that, when combined with a healthy attitude and a positive belief system will drive you forward throughout your life. As an Actor for REAL, Fear is a healthy, natural reaction that helps you anticipate what is coming next. What do you do with it?
1. Confront it
2. Handle it
3. Move forward
Fear places you in present time. It reminds you that you are in the now. The stage actor awaiting his entrance in the wings, places himself in the upcoming scene, runs through its events in his head and prepares himself emotionally to take the stage.
Like the actor back stage who is full of anticipation, charged with adrenaline, and yes afraid, you too can use your fear to drive you. It will make you alert and ready for what happens next on your stage of Life. Without this early alert system you will be unprepared and unable to react to the events that unfold.
Another way to stimulate your imagination to propel you towards success is by replacing the word fear with anticipation. By doing that you are transforming fear in a positive driving force.
Get to know your fear rather than simply trying to 'fight' natural human responses such as Fear is rarely effective.
Be Bop! Thom McFadden
Published July 21st, 2007
Filed in Health