THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Coaching Videos & Tips - July 7 2022 No. 764

 

 

 

Imagine doing just what you need to do or say... fearlessly. Yes, that's how being in flow works in practice and that's what this week's video explores.

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

It's an interesting one, isnt' it: I've used the word fearlessly above. And, yet, for all the we feel fear, for all the some animals can smell our fear (dogs for example), the cocktail of biospheric subtances released by fear are all triiggered by something that actually isn't there - other than in the mind of the beholder.

But tell someone who is afraid that there is no fear and you will be met with scorn: the individual being bullied; those who are afraid of financial lack; people afraid of their own shadow - or, should I say, the shadow that is only cast by their own normal crazy imaginations.

We are designed to be fearful for being fearful kept us alive when we were competing with fiercer animals for our very survival. Now, as noted above, we actually and only have ourselves to fear - we are the authors of our own self-doubt and misgivings, the creator of our own perceived ills and evil (I've chosen the words deliberately).

We do this as a matter of natural course having been designed in this fashion. It is automatic. But that is not to say that we cannot help it.

We don't rid our lives of fear by confronting it. Only a fool would go to the trouble of confronting something that isn't there. We won't rid our lives of fear by conceptually dismissing it, based on the abundance of science that confirms the non-existence of fear. Concepts won't work and, in fact, may only give extra impetus to the perception of fear.

We don't even need to rid our lives of fear. By turning up to our lives in the present moment we experience the reality that there is no fear: in taking apparently bold action (as is mentioned in this week's video) or ini striking out to do the things that we inherently know we need to do by... just doing them.