To properly discuss fear I need to first explain how I understand the way we work. We are all guided by our subconscious; it guides us to what we really want. The subconscious is a very powerful thing, it can make us do just about anything.
The subconscious absorbs what the conscious is thinking. For years we have been told that the only way to be successful is to get good marks in school, get a good degree then find a “good” job, invest in mutual funds, buy a house, get a dog, marry a pretty woman, have kids and retire. Now because we have been told to do this by just about everyone we have ever met our whole life it becomes part of our subconscious and we start striving for this dream and this dream is the rat race. It becomes our context. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with it at all, just that this has become the norm, and more and more people are thinking this way.
Fear is what is keeping us all back from making the changes we want to make. It stops us from making a success of ourselves. Why did you never take that business opportunity? FEAR…
We need to reprogram our subconscious to align with our goals / what we really want. At present most of use think that there is only one way to make it in life. But with a little reading and research you see that the rat race is a path to failure. Failure in the way that we never really live our own life, the reason we are here on planet earth is to challenge ourselves, learn and develop. To see what I mean you just have to look at the world’s richest and most successful people, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Richard Kyrosaki, Warren Buffet (to name a few) were never fooled into the rat race. They might have had a job, but it was purely meant for the learning experience.
Fear is an emotion that is deeply routed in our subconscious, therefore each of us will fear different things depending on what we have been taught to think. If we can change the way our subconscious thinks we can change the way we feel fear. Eventually getting to the point where we don’t even feel irrational fear anymore.