There are two primary emotions that humans experience in life, fear and love. They are mutually exclusive, it is impossible to be in fear when feeling love and equally, love cannot exist in a state of fear.
Why am I petrified? Because of the unknown. Fear is based on past events and future events. Fear is what we think might happen in the future, based on our experience in the past. The past is not real, because it’s gone, it’s dead, it’s finished. The future isn’t real, because it hasn’t happened.
As with all emotions, fear begets fear. Look at the politicians who preach fear, they attract millions of people who also live in fear. They leverage those feelings of scarcity and pick up countless votes by feeding the fear that many people live in.
Fear can stop me from acting, but I’ve leared to see it and confront it. I cannot live, work and succeed in fear. A new job is surrounded with fear. Success is surrounded with fear. Money is surrounded with fear. Other people are surrounded with fear, how do I know if they will treat me well?
Escaping fear and expressing love is the only way to escape. In any situation in my entire life, if I’m making a decision and face uncertainty, framing the options by honestly choosing the most loving choice to myself and the world will escape fear.
Scared of asking someone out for a date? Scared of quitting my job? Scared about running out of money? All of these situations will stop me from growing if I listen to my fears, yet those fears often seem overwhelmingly real. People spend their entire life living in fear, then they die, scared of death as they were of money, because in their state of fear, they talked themselves out of living life.
Because of fear.
