“Face your fears voluntarily: that’s the cure.”
-Jordan Peterson
We don’t really become less afraid, we just get braver.
That reptilian brain we have in our heads is a precarious thing. Don’t get me wrong, it has it’s place, but the challenge is that it feeds us caution lights that aren’t always justified.
Our amigdala is great at creating fight or flight responses when we’re in close proximity danger. Unfortunately, sometimes it responds to our subjective fears induced by our modern world as if we were toe to toe with a bear.
These subjective fears don’t warrant all that. That adrenaline and cortisol would be better spent elsewhere.
We could all probably agree that having a panic attack because we have to host a morning huddle at work isn’t healthy. Such social situations don’t warrant the same response we would have if getting robbed at gun-point.
In these areas where our amigdala is over-riding our neo-cortex, we need to be self-aware and practice exposure therapy. We need to gradually face our fears until they become less scary.
Preferably, not kicking ans screaming but voluntarily. This is the cure.
Accept it… lean in… embrace the struggle, because everything we ultimately want is on the other side of our comfort zone.
Don’t Be Shy!
Let me know in the comments below what fears are holding you down and holding you back. Maybe we can put our heads together and generate some solutions. Sometimes two heads are better than one.
I’d love to hear from you! If you have questions, would just like to say hi, or have a good joke to share, feel free to reach out to me at info@danielfortune.blog. When time permits, I personally respond to each and every email I recieve.
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