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Fear seems to be epidemic in our society.
We fear beginnings; we fear endings. We fear changing;
When I was younger, I was always run by fear, so it wasn’t surprising that for years I hung on to many things in my life that clearly were not working for me.
An ancient sage once said, “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
I began to see the world as a less threatening and more joyous place;
teaching a course at the New School, in New York City. Called “Feel the Fear . . . and Do It Anyway,”
Whenever we take a chance and enter unfamiliar territory or put ourselves into the world in a new way, we experience fear.
how to say yes to all circumstances in your life
how to create more love, trust, and satisfaction
how to see yourself as having purpose and meaning.
wants to know why she is unhappy when she has everything one could possibly want in life.
You begin to shut down and close out the world around you.
“Be careful” carries with it a double message: “The world is really dangerous out there” . . . and . . . “You won’t be able to handle it.”
Whatever happens to me, given any situation, I can handle it!
Learning to eat in a restaurant alone was awkward but ultimately pleasant.
The day I booked tickets for my first trip by myself was a day for celebration.
The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow.
The interaction with my students was stimulating and challenging.
She vowed to say yes for a year, no matter what. Her decision became the basis of her bestselling book, Year of Yes,
Why don’t I just go on living my life the way I’ve been living it?”
Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying fear that comes from a feeling of helplessness.
I “know” on some deep level there is nothing to fear.
FIVE TRUTHS ABOUT FEAR 1. The fear will never go away as long as I continue to grow.
power (choice, energy, and action),
position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).
Some people say that they do not like the concept of power and want no part of
love and power go together.
With power, one can really begin to open up the heart. With no power, love is distorted.
am powerful and I am loved.
you can drop an awful lot of excess baggage if you learn to play with life instead of fight it.
There are always new experiences that challenge a sense of personal power.
I hope I will get a job. I know I will get a job.
The more powerfully you speak, the more you will be a force in the world around you.
visualization—the creation of a mental image of something in an effort to achieve what you want.
You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life.
know it is difficult to accept the fact that you are the cause of the feelings that take away your joy in life.
Why are you waiting for the perfect mate to find you? Why are you giving up?
I was totally “independent.” But I wasn’t taking responsibility for my life.
I was still expecting someone else in my life to “make me happy.”
I finally learned there is only one person in the world who can make me ...
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“it’s amazing how perfect Mark becomes when I stop expecting him to handle my life!”
This is not to say that you aren’t entitled to have your basic needs met by your partner—the need to be supported in your growth, the need to be nurtured at times, the need to know there is caring on your spouse’s part—but
when you are not handling your life, no amount of caring and ...
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you are not aware of your Chatterbox, it sounds something like this: I am so tired of being alone.
Taking responsibility means figuring out what you want in life and acting on it.
Figure out what kind of space you would like to live in . . . then create it.
