Monday, September 18, 2006

Fearlessly Into The Unknown

We all tend to have comfort zones. Comfort zonesare all those situations and environments with which you feel comfortable with, mainly because it is ‘known’ to you – you’ve had conscious contact with it before and because of that you have a sense of certainty about what to expect and how to handle it. Anything outside your comfort zone feels uncomfortable because inherent in the unknown lies a certain level of uncertainty.
As soon as something unknown or unfamiliar comes into your life you tend to loose your sense of certainty, and out of this uncertainty your mind starts to ‘make up’ potential meanings in trying to establish a level of certainty. Most of the time this not only creates fear, but also breeds it. Fear gets constructed in the imagination by ‘making-up’ meanings to events and circumstances that has not happened – and probably never will. It is only natural to feel fear as it is one of your most primordial instincts designed to protect you.
Unfortunately, we’ve come to mistreat the emotion of fear since we tend to treat a lot of trivial things as potentially dangerous by imagining the worst possible outcomes. This is what keeps us trapped in inaction and procrastination. The unknown is just too scary, so you stay in your comfort zone where you feel certain that you know what to expect and how to handle it.
Those who achieve extraordinary lives share the fundamental strength of courage. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the willingness to break through your 'limitations' and take action despite feeling the fear of uncertainty. Courage breeds more courage. Only by using your ability to break through the fears that prevents you from living your life full out, will you ever experience the fullness of what you can really be. Courage is not a special gift or a special skill, but simply you deciding to take action even though you feel the fear. Most fears are imaginary anyway. Fear is the product of your imagination because you mostly fear that which hasn’t happened yet and anything that is still to come can only exist in your imagination. read further...

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