WANT TO MASTER FEAR ?
The key to mastery is courage
When I started my journey to recovery of a life I wanted, I was told that many of the obstacles in my path were fear based. Fear is a natural instinct given to us for a reason. My fears, as I found out had gone beyond reasonable.
So what did I have to focus on?? COURAGE.
In my daily living and my coaching practice, the 12 Steps form a foundation that is strong if practiced! With the good mental hygiene given to me through this foundation, I can differentiate today between things which justify fear (a bear approaches me) and things I have no justifiable foundation to fear.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
--Mark Twain
Which of the Twelve Steps teach us how to handle our fear? The Steps that scare us the most! For many of us, that would be Step Three, Step Five, and Step Nine. These Steps ask us to move from one place in our life to a new place.
Step Three asks us to let go of the life we are leading and to step into a new life. We have faith that it is okay to do so because we have come to believe in a Higher Power that will restore us to balance and sanity.
Step Five asks us to move from a secret life to a life of openness. We have to leave our hiding place, take off our masks, and let someone else see us as we really are.
In Step Nine, we take responsibility for our past actions. We face the people we have hurt, and we do what we can to repair the damage we caused.
Each of these Steps teaches us courage.
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