Fear
Sadly, us humans are capable of treating ourselves in the most destructive ways. We regularly put ourselves in the most perilous positions all because of fear.
We relentlessly try to hold onto situations and people who are offering us nothing more than drama and distress, when we know full well that we should be letting these damaging situations and individuals go.
We senselessly fear the unfamiliar. So much so, that we can actually find ourselves rejecting even the mere thought of change. We can be so fearful of circumstances and situations we have no experience of, that just the thought of the word ‘fear’ can actually increase our heart rate and raise our blood pressure.
Preventing changes taking place in our life is actually a method of nurturing our fears, and giving our fears even more power and control over us. Living in this fearful mindset is an existence of both mental and emotional stagnation, where we are held prisoner to a limited and growth stunted version of ourselves.
Fear is also a mindset of avoidance, which is regularly used as an excuse not to take action and move forwards in our lives, even to the point where we can misguidedly try to convince ourselves that it is ‘better the devil we know, than the devil we don’t’. This is an extremely dangerous statement and mindset to adopt.
Our attempts to justify our choices to have anything or anyone in our life of a ‘devilish’ nature, means we are simply choosing to remain stuck exactly where we are. It is much more productive and healthier for us to adopt a positive and healing belief, that we should completely avoid entertaining any so-called ‘devils’ into our lives whatsoever.
We can become so accustomed to living both with fear and in fear. Even if that place is fraught with disharmony and disdain, we often try our best to actually remain in that chaotic place simply because we have become content and accepting of the misalignment that we are under.
Our unhealed childhood and adult scars can also encourage us to buy into the fear, that there must be a catch attached to anything that seems to be too good to be true. We can become so wrapped up and engulfed with fear, that we can convince ourselves that any positive experiences which allow us to feel happy and good - such as fun, joy and even love - must be some sort of illusion or scam.
When we refuse to face up to our fears we are giving them full permission to relentlessly hunt us, and this is exactly what our fears will do. Until we dig deep within and face our fears head on and realise they are nothing more than just a self taught mental block, they will continue to haunt us throughout our entire life.
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