The Cost of Fear - How Fear limits your Full Potentials

Have you ever wanted to change your life but could not? No matter
what you do, you cannot seem to overcome your fear?

Fear is a HUGE stumbling block for a lot of people. It is an
obstacle to your personal growth and greatly limits your ability
to achieve your fullest potentials in life.

Fear can prevent you from making positive changes in your life.
Sometimes even the smallest changes in life can seem like a big
struggle because of fear. Each time you try to change, anxiety
and stress creep into your system, and you simply gave up.

You may want to change your job or buy a new car or house but
the thought of change, and the anxiety that accompanies it, soon
discouraged you from even trying. So you end up stuck in the
same situation and condition all your entire life.

Because of fear, you may not even be able to take small risks,
such as making new friends, joining a fitness club, start a
relationship or just being friendly with your neighbors. Fear can be
extremely crippling. Some people are unable to live an ordinary
life because of fear.

Fear can also prevent you from breaking destructive habits. Despite
knowing the damage smoking is to your health, you may not find
the courage to stop. The same goes for your eating habits, drinking
and even the habit of procrastination. All these destructive habits
are symptoms of underlying fear that had not been resolved.

Fear is one factor that prevents most people from achieving their
goals in life. It is likely that it is the same for you. You may
want to take a course in public speaking or be a successful writer
but fear becomes a stumbling block and stops you on the track.

But fear is only crippling to our life if we allow it.

That's right! We do have a choice whether to allow fear in our
life or not. Most people do not know this fact and so they live
their lives taking fear for granted as part and parcel of life.

It may take a long time to eliminate all forms of fear in your
life but at the very least you can reduce most of them, and start
to live a life of joy and freedom, and feel a sense of liberation
and bliss.

I am telling you this is possible because I have done it. I used
to have quite a number of big fears. One of them, the fear of
people in uniform and authority took me years to overcome. Another
was the fear of public speaking - the mother of all fears!

Today I am happy to share with you that I have overcome both these
fears. As I learned to understand fear, its nature and root cause,
and how to overcome it, I have collected quite a large armory of
tools that can effectively eliminate fear. Some of these, which I
discovered later, are so powerful and effective that they can
literally remove your fear instantly.

I will be sharing more of these methods with you later.

Here is a simple exercise for you:

Write in less than 500 words whether you believe the universe
you live in is a benevolent universe or a hostile universe, and
why you believe so. Your answer may give you an insight into
your belief system.