Edmund Hillary, one of the world’s most skilled climbers, was one of the first people to reach the summit of Everest. But the biggest obstacle he faced while climbing the summit was not the weather conditions or the difficult terrain, but his own fears.
At some point in our lives, we all face fears that limit us and prevent us from realizing our potential.
Sitting still and avoiding facing fears is like a boat only stopping in a safe harbor.
Our mind works to protect us from danger. In this case, it exposes all possible negative elements before we go where we want.
The mind also has a tendency to exaggerate. Because he analyzes and comes up with ideas based on the past, he exaggerates the situation to stay away from danger.
Fear is a helper that protects us from harming ourselves and others. It benefits our survival.
This fear does not help me at all, it only holds me back. You are likely to say that it prevents me from living and harms my body.
It protects us from every fear and helps us draw our boundaries. Fear has emerged as a result of these limits that we cannot set ourselves.
These fears can lead us to inertia, cause us to postpone our dreams, and take us away from the life we dream of.
We can look at the things we define as fear from different perspectives. All the events we experience in life have a benefit in line with our own wishes.
Everyone’s fears are different depending on their perspective. While one is afraid of dogs, the other is afraid of cats, the other is afraid of snakes, while the other approaches all of them normally.
It is up to us to manage how we live here, how we look at things and how we react.
If I give an example from myself, I can say that I am on the way to overcoming the fear of being bitten by dogs or other creatures. I think I’ve made good progress.
I can approach them more easily than before. I have full faith that I will overcome this fear as I move forward step by step.
Being above fear and not going out means not embarking on that adventure. People regret the things they couldn’t do the most.
Who knows what awaits you when you leave the safe haven.
Is fear really a problem?
The problem here is defining fear as bad and focusing only on that aspect.
The emergence of a virus or an individual disease has come to change your nutrition, your perspective on life, or another issue. Here, seeing these with our own will and embracing this transformation means moving forward with the flow.
What a great skill it is to understand this before it happens and to listen to yourself. It would be to our detriment to keep our perspective on the bad and negative side of these issues.
Every event we experience has a service for us when we look at it from our own perspective. Thinking about this and experiencing realizations brings us peace.
Sometimes we need to shake things up a bit or take action. When we cannot express this and take action, events that we describe as bad come to serve it.
Slaves or masters of fear are no different. Fear is overcome not by controlling it while it’s there or by being controlled by it, but by seeing it and just moving forward.
Being in Your Presence
Seeing the benefit of fear brings silence. We see that everything is in the balance of the Creator and comes upon our order.
In this way, the brain relaxes and can take steps with new desire, excitement, and courage. In this way, we can plant new seeds of intention in our garden.
As you plant new intentions and realize all the events and situations that life makes you watch, you begin to see that everyone sees from their own window. Remember the part we mentioned in the article’s beginning that everyone has fears.
You see that you are only living your own reality, where there is no right or wrong. It shows you the invisible you that is deep inside. Seeing and accepting this is one of the biggest steps taken.
No matter how much we try to deny it, what is inside us is outside.
What we watch outside and the intermediaries trigger emotions in us. The feeling of fear is one of them. It reminds us of our need to be grounded in life and our presence.
The instinct to live and the need for fear, which are the subjects of the root chakra, emerge as a result of my inability to be rooted.
Anything that is good for the root chakra and makes us feel our presence and our own body is good for us.
Our contact with the soil roots us here. Dealing with gardening and ceramics is good for us. Our body comes from Mother Earth.
Instead of fear, knowing that every breath we take here is a gift to us and that it protects and surrounds us gives us confidence.
We can establish this feeling in our lives by inculcating it in ourselves step by step.
Go Step by Step
Let’s move forward step by step in line with what we talked about.
- Take a piece of paper and divide it into 3 vertically. Let these columns be Fear – Need – Innovation.
- Put your fears on paper and realize that this is just a concept in your mind that you have taken from yourself or from outside.
- Try to see and understand the need for fear. You don’t need to understand or comprehend right away. Go at your own pace.
- Cross out the fear you wrote down. Write in the innovation section what you can use to fill the need created by this fear.
- When your fears arise again in life, you can overcome them calmly and with easy steps and support.
- For example, if you are afraid of a dog, petting or feeding your friend or a friendly dog will help you overcome your fear.