One of
biggest problems we can encounter when we consider making changes to our life is fear. Even though changes we want to make will bring more happiness by considerably enhancing our lives, fear will still raise its head to try and stop us in our tracks.Why does this happen?
It’s all to do with way subconscious perceives survival. It knows that you are in a safe position and that survival is more or less guaranteed if you carry on in same way. As soon as you start to consider making changes to your life, your subconscious mind will play fear card. You are leaving comfort zone and boy-oh-boy, does it not like it! Not one little bit!
This is no joke. It happens to millions of people and this fear ruins their dreams for a better life. And here’s danger of giving in to this fear: You can feel as though you’re stuck in a rut – kind of like life is passing you by. As years pass, these feelings can become magnified and you can become filled with regret over opportunities you didn’t grasp.
I don’t know about you but last feeling I want before I breathe my last is that I didn’t take advantage of opportunities because I gave in to my fears. Because let’s be honest here, we can generate excuse after excuse to save face and gain sympathetic understanding from our families and loved ones. But we can’t fool ourselves. Deep down inside, we know truth.
If you want to achieve a dream, you are going to have to understand and overcome fear. There’s a lot to it, much more than I can cover in one article. But for now, I want to look at an ally of fear, an ally that you can easily defeat.
When we’re in comfort zone, one thing re-enforces it more than any other. Routine. Performing same habits and behaviors on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. The more routines you have in your life, harder it is to embrace life-enhancing changes. Any break from routines is met with strong resistance by your mind.
This is security. And more secure you feel, more mind believes we are safe, that survival is assured. Introducing change triggers fear response because your subconscious mind perceives a threat to your survival. A great technique to combat this is to demonstrate that your conscious mind is in control. You do this by adopting axiom that change is essential to growth. The more you embrace change, more color you add to your life. The more you grow, more happiness, satisfaction and fulfilment you feel.
