by Merci Gracia | Nov 6, 2015 | Fear
Fear arises when you think you’ll lose something you’re attached to. Whether it’s your health, career, appearance, money or a relationship, just the thought of losing these provokes a form of identity crisis. But you aren’t any of these things....
by Merci Gracia | Sep 26, 2015 | Fear
When we’re afraid of the consequences of taking the wrong action, we freeze. It’s the result of an over-active mind looping on endless what-if-something-goes-wrong scenarios. When we’re present, we have a much greater command of what can be done. If...
by Merci Gracia | Sep 13, 2015 | Fear
Death, of course. Not just the big, final death. We’re anxious about all the little deaths we potentially face: that our relationship will end, our company (or our role in it) won’t survive, that the image that we project out to the world will tarnish or fade,...
by Merci Gracia | May 25, 2015 | Fear
Fear is almost always about something in the future. We fear having too much of what we don’t want or not enough of what we do. We worry about health, finances, safety and what other people think. There’s nothing wrong with doing our utmost to prepare for...
by Merci Gracia | Feb 28, 2015 | Fear
It’s difficult to escape the powerful orbit of ingrained habits. Though the middle of the merry-go-round makes you slightly dizzy and uncomfortable, it still seems safer than exiting the spinning platform. The worry that the stronger force of rotation outside...
by Merci Gracia | Nov 20, 2014 | Fear
Most of what you fear will never happen. You’ve probably lived through many hours of needless worry and anxiety stressing out about self-created terrors. To dramatically improve your experience of life right now, eliminate the obsessive habit of worrying about...