A Strategy for Overcoming Fear

This week’s post features a video that I initially didn’t equate with getting out of fear.  In fact, I originally titled the video From Self Absorbed to Self Empowered.  But after writing last week’s post, A New Way to Look at Fear, I realized that this video is actually a demonstration of one of the best ways I know to get out of fear.  It’s simple, easy and powerful.  I hope you enjoy it.  And I encourage you try it for yourself.  Let me know how it goes, will you?

Here’s what I said in the video:

One of the things I’ve found that helps me get out of my self – meaning out of my head – out of my self-absorbed preoccupation with worrying about how I look, how I come across, whether or not I can do something is to think about what I want to experience.

So one day I was playing with this affirmation or intention of what it was that I wanted.  It started with “Let me see love.” Wouldn’t that be great to see love everywhere you look?  That if even when the face of things don’t seem very lovely that I could see love.

Then I thought what would be even better is if I could feel love.   So I could say “Let me feel love.”  And how great is that?  That I could relax in this comfort and feeling of just love everywhere.

And then I thought, “Well, how about if I give love?  So let me give love.”  How much better would that be because if I’m giving love, surely I’m feeling it!  And if I’m feeling it,  surely I’m seeing it.

And then it hit me that what I really want more than anything else is to be love.  Let me BE love.

And I think with that intention, there’s probably nothing I can’t do.

For more on overcoming fear:

The Pinocchio Principle: Becoming the Leader You Were Born to Be

Just Let it Rip – The Problem with Polished

Taking Your Leap, Part II

Motivation vs. Inspiration

The Power of a Story

Photograph by Fritz Langmann from http://www.dreamstime.com/free-stock-image-young-woman-appalled-rimagefree1828966-resi3423159.