Overcoming Fear: Managing Emotions & Cultivating Courage–Part 3
Cultivating Courage Courage is not the absence of fear. It is the ability to take purposeful action in spite of the fact that you feel fear. Cultivating courage requires the willingness to face your fears, see yourself as capable of dealing with the challenges you are facing and to take risks. 9 Ways To Cultivate Courage Face Your Fears 1. Change Your Perception: Use your skills of discernment and reframing to change your perception of fearful situations into opportunities for your personal...
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Managing Your Emotions On The Journey The journey to transformation is an inner journey. On your journey, you will experience emotions with great intensity. Ultimately, gaining mastery of your emotions will be a major part of your transformational process. Emotional hijackings occur when your emotions drive your behavior rather than the thinking or cognitive part of your brain. To prevent or reduce the impact of an emotional hijacking requires: Awareness of your emotional states. Knowledge...
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Fear & The Transformational Journey Fear is your companion on the transformational journey. Fear is a primordial emotion. It can lead to depression and anxiety that in turn will stop you from: 1. Departing on your transformational journey altogether. 2. Taking action as you are confronted and tested along your path. 3. Sharing fully with others what you have learned upon you return home. To manage fear, you must first understand the process of human perception. The Process of...
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Practicing Discernment & Reframing Your Experience Reframing Reframing is a way of changing the way you look at something and as a result, changing your experience of it. Reframing can turn a stressful event into a major trauma or into a challenge to be overcome. It can turn a situation that might be perceived as a negative event into a learning experience. Reframing is a way that you can alter your perceptions and create a more positive outlook on life while simultaneously expanding the...
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Practicing Discernment & Reframing Your Experience Discernment You make meaning from the world around you by taking a limited number of facts and through your frame of reference you infer meaning. A frame of reference is the combination of beliefs, values, attitudes that you use to perceive a situation. You effectively look through this frame in the way you would look through tinted glasses. Discernment is a process through which you become aware of what frame of reference is operating...
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