In my readings today I came across something about fear that helps me remember that it is only something that exists in my mind. FEAR stands for:
False Expectation Appearing Real
Many times I waste my days and a whole lot of nights gripped in fear, worrying about that which hasn’t happened yet, or may never happen. Even possessing that knowledge, doesn’t do much to alleviate it when I’m in the throws of it. I like making it an acronym. When the anxiety that holds me a prisoner to fear strikes, repeating the acronym makes the concept tangible.
One other thing that helps me is to run for my gratitude journal and list 5 things that have happened and give a little extra gratitude for them. This redirects my focus back onto things that have already happened, rather than those that don’t exist.
Don’t have a gratitude journal? Make one. It rewrites your thinking and changes life’s perspective. It causes us to pause and give honest thanks for things we have all around us that somehow we just don’t see.
And so, as another day goes by, fearing fear is a difficult cycle to break, and…I have written.
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