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- Everyone gets scared sometimes—fear is your brain’s security system keeping you alert to the possibility of danger. Those mental and physical symptoms you feel when you sense danger are known as your fight-or-flight response and it’s your body’s way of protecting you from potentially life-threating situations.
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- You find yourself striving in vain for an impossible-to-achieve standard of perfection. When you're afraid (of criticism, failure, and rejection), you'll do anything to try to become "perfect."
- You settle for less than your dreams. When you're afraid to take risks and go for what you really want, you convince yourself that your less-than-juicy life is as good as it gets.
- You say yes when you mean no. When you're afraid to disappoint people or get rejected if you don't say yes, you'll fall into fear-based, people-pleasing, self-sacrificing behaviors that lead to resentment.
- You say no when you mean yes. When you're afraid, you're unlikely to take risks. You'll feel the yearning to start your own business, take that bucket list trip, have a baby, or take an art class—but you'll say no because you're afraid to fail, afraid to succeed, afraid to get rejected, afraid to stir things up, afraid to get out of your comfort zone.
- Fear is healthy. Fear is hardwired in your brain, and for good reason: Neuroscientists have identified distinct networks that run from the depths of the limbic system all the way to the prefrontal cortex and back.
- Fear comes in many shades. Fear is an inherently unpleasant experience that can range from mild to paralyzing—from anticipating the results of a medical checkup to hearing news of a deadly terrorist attack.
- Fear is not as automatic as you think. Fear is part instinct, part learned, part taught. Some fears are instinctive: Pain, for example, causes fear because of its implications for survival.
- You don’t need to be in danger to be scared. Fear is also partly imagined, and so it can arise in the absence of something scary. In fact, because our brains are so efficient, we begin to fear a range of stimuli that are not scary (conditioned fear) or not even present (anticipatory anxiety).
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- Gather information. Whenever a patient or client expresses a problematic fear, I ask questions. You can do this, too. Process and analyze your fears with a trained counseling professional, talk it through with a wise friend, or just get your fears down on paper.
- See your fear as (most likely) normal, or relatively common. When clients are sharing with me how terrified they are of something, whether it’s an upcoming move, a job change, a calculated risk, or an unfamiliar obstacle, I've found it helpful to (truthfully) tell them that it’s normal or common.
- Get into your left brain. Years ago, I was in a very stressful relationship. I got help from a coach who specialized in helping people navigate this specific relational circumstance.
- Don’t avoid what you’re afraid of. I’ve written about this before. When you’re afraid, the fear center in your brain gets the message that a certain thing or situation is a threat.
- Think about your physical feelings and behaviours. When we are faced with our fear it can be hard to figure out what is really going on. When you are feeling more relaxed, take some time to think about the way you feel physically when you are afraid and how this makes you behave.
- Change the way you see fear. Understanding why we feel a certain way can make it easier to manage things when we become afraid. You may already know that the physical and emotional symptoms of fear can actually help to keep us safe in dangerous situations by making us more alert to potential threats or preparing our bodies for action.
- Break down and rate fearful situations. Think about which situations involve your fear and how difficult each one is to face. Try rating them from 0 to 100, with 0 being not difficult at all and 100 causing the most fear.
- Start with the easiest. Now you have rated your situations, you can begin working through them. Starting with the lowest-scoring (least-difficult) one, begin facing your fears by putting yourself in the situation that you find uncomfortable.
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