OVERCOMING FEAR

For newcomers to this page: know that this is all written to those who will be cured and those who won't and to all those who are not sure. We are talking about all the insidious ways fears can insinuate themselves in everyday life and how to recognize and overcome them. Freedom from fear enables a richer more joyful life. Now for strategies to overcome it.

The Dragon can just use fear to mess with you or to really take you out. When fear overrules reason, it poisons your intellect. Studies have shown that 90% of people put under severe stress are not able to think clearly or solve simple problems. Creativity, insight, cool thinking and rational reflection that are all necessary for a measured response to a problem are severely impaired.

It caught my attention and piqued my curiosity when I didn’t see fear in some patients. They would walk and not be faint. They would run and not grow weary. They would smile and I didn’t know why. I couldn’t tell whether something called them forward, or something lifted them from behind. I came to think of them as the WINDRUNNERS because they ran so well, faster, smoother and longer, as if lifted over the rocks and potholes of the track and their cancer. I started watching out for what was different about them.

IDENTIFY YOUR ADVERSARIES AND TAKE THEM OUT