5 Strategies to Get Over the Fears Holding You Back

You're reading 5 Strategies to Get Over the Fears Holding You Back, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. How often do you feel like you are your own worst enemy? You frequently may find that what stands between you and the life of your dreams is... you. I have been a psychologist in Los Angeles for over three decades, and I've designed several strategies that can help you to get over the fears and resistance that keep you from living a life you will love. But, first, I want to explain why you feel this fear and resistance in the first place. Fear drives all of our decisions. It's a biological fact, and it comes from evolution. If human beings weren't a fearful species, we wouldn't have survived for long in a world where many other creatures were bigger and stronger than us. We were afraid, so we were careful, and we survived. Fear also kept us in communities. We were afraid of being cast out of the tribe — and thus starving to death — so we learned to behave in a way that made others like us and want us around. Fear-driven motivation worked well over thousands of years of human evolution. The first step toward breaking free from these fears is to thank your early-human ancestors and recognize that the voice in your head that's telling you to stop, slow down, and be rational comes from their reality, not yours. As soon as you formulate a vision for what you w...
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