5 Steps to Eliminate Fear and Take Control of Your Life!
Being open and embracing the changes that bring good things into your life can be programmed into your mind – are you ready to eliminate fear and welcome the life you want to have?
Life is challenging, and painful, and exciting, and unpredictable. There are two basic forces that drive our reactions to what Life throws at us – love and fear. Love opens us to the passion and excitement that Life has to offer, while fear causes us to withdraw and hide.
Some people state these as EXPANDING emotions (love, passion, gratitude, curiosity, are all expanding emtions) and CONTRACTING emotions (fear, anger, etc.). Whichever model works for you, they are just different models for explaining the same thing. Expanding emotions make us want to reach out and open up. Contracting emotions make us stop, and move into ourselves and into our safety zones.
So, contracting energy like fear stops you from taking action. Fear of what you might lose (or gain). Fear of not having enough. Fear of not being loved or belonging. Fear of being alone. That’s why you need to eliminate fear to experience your true potential.
There is a time for fear. It protects us from danger and destruction. The problem is that if you’re not living your life to the fullest, chances are good it’s because you’ve let fear dictate to you that pretty much everything new you want to try is dangerous and destructive.
Well, guess what? It’s not true. If it’s safe and brings goodness into someone else’s life, why wouldn’t it do the same for you?
You can eliminate fear, you can take control of your life, you can start living your life to the fullest.
Here are 5 steps to get you started:
Be Clear About Your Goals
What do you want your life to look like and be like? You must have a destination, a goal, a vision to work toward or you’re not going to know that you reached it. What goals do you want to achieve? Get clear on this and your first fear will be taken care of – the fear of not knowing what to expect. Now you can shift your focus to the tasks that will help you achieve your goal.
Prepare Yourself
How many opportunities have you had to say No to because you weren’t ready? No doubt there are many. And there will be many more if you don’t begin to prepare yourself now. Based on the goals you’ve set, what skills and knowledge do you need to achieve them? Begin obtaining those skills and knowledge now, and preparing yourself emotionally to say yes.
Hypnosis is excellent for this. Using hypnosis to “future pace” your mind to the moment an opportunity presents itself and seeing, feeling and hearing yourself say “yes!” and then taking that first important step will program your mind to respond that way when the time comes. AND to be seeking that opportunity out!
Network With Others
If you don’t have the skills or knowledge, you should know someone who does. A strong social and professional network is vital to your ability to live the life you want. This doesn’t mean you must befriend everyone who crosses your path, or that you must nurture professional relationships with people you don’t like or understand. It means meeting people online and offline and deciding how they fit in your life. You make that decision. Just be sure to nurture those relationships that can help you personally and professionally by being helpful to them first. Remember, two heads are better than one and nobody creates success in isolation. Just know you have a network of people to turn to with your challenges goes a long way to eliminate fear.
Ask More Questions
Opportunities don’t appear as if by magic. And sometimes they’re not obvious. Use your imagination and curiosity to help you ask more questions about what is happening around you. When you can see situations from different perspectives amazing lessons can be learned, answers can be found, and recognition of an opportunity can happen.
Take Risks
Not just any risk, though, calculated risks. Calculated means understanding what the risks are, whether it’s financial or emotional or mental or physical, and weighing the pros and cons of each risk to determine if you’re willing to live with the consequences of moving forward. When you do this, you are in control of the decision-making process and can accept responsibility for the achievement or failure of what you do in your life.
These five steps apply to your personal and business life because the truth is that you take yourself wherever you go, don’t you? When you are in control of how you make your decisions, why you make your decisions, you throw fear to the curb and are able to live a life that is free of fear and full of joy and happiness and purpose.
