Silence Fear and other Anxiety Disorder Symptoms

Fear and other strong emotions that come with it are very powerful and not to be ignored. In fact you must REFUSE to allow yourself to be afraid.

The good news is that fear begins with and can be controled by thought. You and you alone are in charge of what you think.

From Dr. Don Colbert’s book Deadly Emotions: Understand the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection That Can Heal or Destroy You it reads,

“As in the case with all intense, toxic emotions, a chemical response occurs in the brain when a person experiences severe fear. This chemical activity excites these vital brain centers in particular - (the area of the brain that controls memory and helps the brain learn and retain information)……Fear and anxiety seem to occure on the same general spectrum. Fear is a concentrated, short term bout of anxiety. It’s the acute immediate “anxious” response.

…Some fears occur repeatedly in the same environment; in other words, certain experiences or circumstances always seem to trigger fear in a person. In these cases, the fear is called a phobia…Part of the definitiobn of a phobia is that it is a crippling fear. It keeps a person from moving about in society in a normal manner.

…When a person has a sudden attack of fear, the body responds with an intense and acute stress response; adrenaline flows into the bloodstream and immediately signals the body to go onb it’s highest level of alert to fight or flee. (When) the stress response does not shut down…hormones continue to pour into the body (causing) the cardiovascular or immune system to suffer damage.”

Realize that continuing to listen to reports of bad news can fuel the fear that paralyzes - both mentally and physically!

Watch and listen to Dr. Joe Dispenza describe “emotional addition.”
 

Stepping out of ones comfort zone to do something different or better during this time of reported “doom and gloom” can be frightening or stressful. Read what Napoleon Hill wrote about fear:

“Fear of poverty (or recession/depression) is a state of mind, nothing else! (He also says “a state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased. It must be created.) Fear is sufficient to destroy one’s chances of achievement in any undertaking, a truth which becomes painfully evident during any time of economic difficulty and uncertainty. Fear of poverty (or recession/depression) paralyzes the faculty of reason, destroys the faculty of imagination, kills self reliance, undermines enthusiasm, discourages initiative, leads to uncertainty of purpose, encourages procrastination, wipes out enthusiasm, and makes self control impossible. Fear takes the charm from one’s personality, destroys the possibility of accurate thinking, diverts concentration of effort, kills persistance, turns willpower into nothingness, destroys ambition, beclouds memory, and invites failure in every conceivable form. It kills love and assassinates the finer emotions of the heart, discourages friendship, invites disaster in a hundred forms, leads to sleeplessness, misery and happiness and all this despite the obvious truth that we live in a world of over-abundance of everything the heart could desire, with nothing standing between us and our desires except lack of a definite purpose and the plans that derive from it.”

It’s so important to stand guard over what goes into and what goes on inside your mind.

You may be reading this and saying “not my problem,” but because of the environment of our economy right now you will be working with, doing business with, etc. other people that are overcome by fear.

It’s important to understand what happens to ourselves and others in this state of fear. Let’s set ourselves free from fear, let’s do our part to release others from fear.

What song best describes You, Your Life and Your Business

There’s a song that some of you might know that describes my life and my business…

Walk by Faith by Jeremy Camp
Listen here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg6KAjb-rj0

The lyrics are powerful
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Walk-By-Faith-lyrics-Jeremy-Camp/87EA5CFF7BDCE72648256DE9002C6C74

Read Jeremy’s powerful but touching story.
http://christianmusic.about.com/od/alprofiles/p/aapfjeremycamp.htm

This song is my life anthem.

What song best describes YOU, YOUR LIFE and YOUR BUSINESS? Post a comment and let me know.

If at first you don’t succeed…QUIT!

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Mindpower

In Napoleon Hill’s book, Think and Grow Rich, introduced the world to a secret.  The movie "The Secret" refers back to this very same secret. Napoleon Hill carefully analyzed more than 500 of the world’s "exceedly wealthy" people over a long period of years.

The master key to this secret is that "thoughts are things" - they are powerful when mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches or other material objects.

One of the topics I discuss in my master mind and coaching groups is the understanding of how thoughts become things. Science has discovered that thoughts are energy that can be measured in a frequency. Thought frequencies, or thought energy attracts to it resonant energy and brings like minded people and things into our lives by attraction. The energy of the world that is around us adapts itself to the nature of our thoughts and influences us or takes on our influence to convert our thoughts into what we’ve been thinking about.

Thoughts - energy - this power does not discriminate between destructive thoughts and constructive thoughts - it is as effective on both - bringing about whatever it is we focus our thoughts on.  Our dominate thoughts create the life we live.  We actually become mental magnets drawing into our lives the "worst case scenarios" that we plan and re-plan; or the grand celebrations that we fantasize and dream about.

"Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available." Andrew Canargie

Moving forward - breaking through fear

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again"

Abraham Maslow
1908-1970, Psychologist

What do you do to achieve your dreams, over come obstacles and face your fears - everyday?

I can tell you what I do.

I diligently watch everything I think about. I carefully select what comes into my mind through my eyes, and my ears. I pay attention to how I feel when I am with someone who stirs up strong feelings - good or bad.

When I’m facing new circumstances that make me apprehensive because of the unknown, I fortify my mind with information that reminds me I am up for the challenge.

I love to read stories from books such as Chicken Soup for the Soul, Small Miracles, and A Cup of Comfort for Inspiration. I am inspired by other strong individuals who face life’s challenges and become stronger for it.

The ONLY movies I will watch are those that inspire greatness. I have no time to horrify and depress my mind with movies that have no redeeming value. Some of my favorite movies are Radio, Sound of Music, Seabiscuit, Facing the Giants, We are Marshall, A Walk to Remember, Freedom Writers,…one of these days I’ll put together a full list.

When you choose to move forward everyday, when you choose growth - even if it is unknown and uncomfortable - You Win!  You might fall but just like a baby, you get back up better prepared for that next step. Listen to my podcast episode on Risk Taking.

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