ourselves a break. Unfounded stories about how we’ll be apathetic, unmotivated, and otherwise ineffective unless we hate the shit out of ourselves for being scared or having some other “unacceptable” emotion. How has that been working so far as a strategy? What kind of results does it produce? Usually mediocre at best, with lots of unwanted side effects. Want to know a much better, faster, cleaner, and more effective way to move from fear to a life of extraordinary confidence and success? Love the fear. Fear comes from pain. Pain about feeling pain. Or pain about the idea that in the future we will experience more pain. The fear is like a wound, and your attention and love is like the healing salve that will bring you back to health. So as you pay attention to the fear and stop resisting it, go one step further and send it love. If your mind says “how?” that’s it just throwing up another roadblock to self-love. It’s still a little freaked out about the whole idea (if I don’t hate and bully myself, then how am I going to win at life?). That’s fine, you can just send love to that part of the
conditioning in our brains that makes us
mistrustful and skeptical of just giving ourselves a break. Unfounded stories about how we’ll be apathetic, unmotivated, and otherwise ineffective unless we hate the shit out of ourselves for being scared or having some other “unacceptable” emotion. How has that been working so far as a strategy? What kind of results does it produce? Usually mediocre at best, with lots of unwanted side effects. Want to know a much better, faster, cleaner, and more effective way to move from fear to a life of extraordinary confidence and success? Love the fear. Fear comes from pain. Pain about feeling pain. Or pain about the idea that in the future we will experience more pain. The fear is like a wound, and your attention and love is like the healing salve that will bring you back to health. So as you pay attention to the fear and stop resisting it, go one step further and send it love. If your mind says “how?” that’s it just throwing up another roadblock to self-love. It’s still a little freaked out about the whole idea (if I don’t hate and bully myself, then how am I going to win at life?). That’s fine, you can just send love to that part of the