Where Fear Gets Its Power

Fear gets its power from the future and past — worrying about all the feel-bad things that might happen in the future, based on all the feel-bad things that did happen in the past — convinced they’re all going to happen again now any moment (fear of life and the present moment).

Fear is a complete fantasy, because the past and future don't exist. The future is not here and cannot be accessed, and the past is over and cannot be changed. The only way you can access the past and the future is in the mind through imagination and memory.

Nothing wrong with either, they’re both powerful tools. But the mind is where fear lives, and if you spend too much time in there, endlessly overthinking, fear will use your imagination to worry, and your memory to regret, so you fear life now.

If you want to take that power away from fear, come back to the present moment, because there is no future in it to worry about and no past in it to regret.

That principle is MASSIVE.

If you lived every aspect of your life fully focused on each moment, as they come to you moment by moment — you could live your entire life fearlessly. Or should I say, "fear-less-ly" — as in less fear each time — because it does take practice. But the more you do it, the less power fear has over you, and the more of these following fear symptoms will disappear out of your life: