Life Without 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....

Immobilized by 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...

What Are We Afraid of?

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,...

The Truth About 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...

Exit the Merry-Go-Round

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...

The Irony of 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...