What is your greatest fear?

If you read Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich”, you will remember the chapter about the Ghosts of fear.
He states that there are 6 basic human fears:  fear of poverty

fear of criticism

fear of ill health

fear of loss of love of someone

fear of old age

fear of death

Notice that the fear of poverty is even more common than the fear of death. Perhaps it’s rational to not fear death as A. Einstein points out

“The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.”
Albert Einstein

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However, how rational is a fear when it comes to prosperity? I mean, even with a recovering economy, I sense that a lot of people are still shaken by the effects, the pain and the fears of certain realities coming back to haunt them, which seems in their cellular memory, and in the systems perhaps even from generations before. Many people I talk to say they think like their grandmother, fathers or even the people they never met who influenced the way their immediate family felt about the financial health in their family.

I remember my grandma tucking away money in socks, storing that under a bed and saying “You never know with banks…”.

The mechanics of fear on our subconscious are devastating since they block our creative power, send us on autopilot and generate the very frequencies of what we fear – thus, do NOT wish to experience.

In so doing, we actually drive our actions to do what our subconscious mind directs in the background, and match exactly what we fear in reality.

Fears are very powerful emotions, and the only language our subconscious mind understands is the affirmative version of the message which then is translated into creative force, or leads to lethargy and other symptoms of that very fear.

Our subconscious mind does not considers “Don’ts” or “Can’ts” – it only creates what it is we give our attention. Would you be sending an order to amazon for books you never would want to read? Harboring fears is just like that.

And fear manifests itself just as faithfully as what we do wish. So, if we fear to be impoverished, we will eventually experience impoverishment.

Even if it does not manifest its physical equivalent, fear is a destructive emotion and does not only protect us from experiences that are not safe, but it also prevents us from experiences that would fulfill our potential.

So, in other words, if we fear the lack of money, our subconscious understands “Create lack of money” and our mind processes impulses to sustain that notion.

The direct consequence is, we make no money, attract the wrong clients, do not go out to talk to people and hide behind our fears as a safety zone that sure shows us what we don’t have. And just because we get prompted with that reality, consciously perhaps striving to become more wealthy, we produce the results our subconscious mind is programmed to produce.

So, my question to you is not “What is YOUR greatest fear?”, my question is: “What will you do to quickly and effectively lose that fear, forever?” because as Joseph Campbell said: “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

What is known as the Zeigarnic Effect formulate our mind’s ”tendency to experience intrusive thoughts about an objective that was once pursued and left incomplete (Baumeister & Bushman, 2008, pg. 122).” This really means that we leak energy to that which we fear, and by doing that give it energy to grow. This would explain why our auto-pilot takes over and matches us up with experiences that would confirm what it is we seek to avoid…because we subconsciously give it so much attention that “the automatic system signals the conscious mind, which may be focused on new goals, that a previous activity was left incomplete.”

And since we are all human, what our subconscious mind decides it wants to finish is what it will complete. Now if the fears you have are regarding ill health, another effect is known as the Nocebo Effect, which is the gradual process of degrading health caused by the fear of ill health, which is the  contrary to the Placebo Effect.

Now if you’re anything like me, incompletes make you irritable, you are angry at yourself and if it’s something you feel you cannot change, a lot of frustration… and the more we leak this energy, the less we have for taking charge of the situation and turning our focus to what we really wish to create. What happens is, we experience all sorts of blockages, overwhelm, indifference, and inaction… this leads to more frustration, and perpetuates the problem, or even, on the long-run sends us into depression.

I once was asked to work with a man who was diagnosed with two big tumors and told he only had a few months to live. I only talked with him a few times and never charged him (his finances were depleted from treatments) and I told him that he has a choice:

Believe that his life will be over in a few months and be depressed, or live his life with plenty of joy, love and the peace in his heart that at least he did what he could to have a fulfilled life as long as it was possible for him.

So, yes, fear can be paralyzing… unless you TAKE ACTION and break the cycle.

Courage is the only antidote to fear and as Mark Twain rightly observed:

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

So, what will you do to kill fear?

(Speak with me about how you can do that on your exclusive VIP Health Coaching session.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.
Mark Twain

So, all you need is to D.A.R.E. and the energy to focus your attention on what it is you desire!

Do you remember “Coach Carter”? (2005) I did! Hope you enjoyed the clip!

I wish you a fearless day!

Lydia Proschinger