Fear: How to Manage it!

When fears arise, use this quick acceptance process:

1. Acknowledge and really feel your fear without judging and criticizing yourself.
2. Ask what it’s there to tell you. Be alert for inner messages that will bring you greater understanding of the situation.
3. Be fully present. Are you okay in this moment? Relax into your present well-being.
4. Focus your mind on what you have rather than on what you don’t have, or on what you want rather than on what you don’t want.
5. Ask your higher knowing: What can I do to improve my situation? Taking action helps get our energy moving.

“What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.”

- Jiddu Krishnamurti