The Real Reason You Have Fear

<h1>The Real Reason You Have Fear </h1>Author: <a title="Baeth Davis" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/baeth-davis/107167.htm">Baeth Davis</a> I've been thinking about this question a lot lately: "What's the REAL reason we have fear?" Why? Because I've been having more fear than usual. Why? I'm doing things that are new in my business and thus, I'm in unfamiliar territory. You've probably heard these explanations for the root of your fear more than once: <ul> <li>You're out of your comfort zone </li> <li>You need more information </li> <li>You fear the unknown </li> <li>You lack courage </li> <li>You lack focus </li> <li>You lack self-confidence </li> </ul> And that's just a short list!  While all of those reasons are potentially valid depending upon the situation, I'd like to dig a little deeper, using your fingerprints as our map through fear. Your fingerprints reveal several aspects of your soul, and one of those aspects is your Life Lesson. Your Life Lesson is your blind spot, your gremlin, your nemesis, your "negative tapes." Your Life Lesson could be one or a combination of these issues: <ul> <li>panic caused by a life out of balance (everything is an *emergency*)</li> <li>anxiety making decisions </li> <li>not expressingyour authentic feelings due to the perceived expectations of others </li> <li>sacrificing yourself into burdensome obligation </li> <li>lack of clarity about your definition of success </li> <li>challenges owning your power in the world </li> <li>challenges managing your energy, time and money </li> <li>challenges expressing your creativity </li> <li>challenges speaking up for your self </li> <li>challenges with your family and community (on a life scale) </li> <li>challenges finding your passion and dealing with victimization, shame and numbness </li> <li>challenges finding your niche due to guilt ("If I succeed, it takes away from others." THAT kind of guilt) </li> <li>paralyzing fear of rejection </li> <li>trust/surrender/intimacy issues with anything: other people, food, money, etc. </li> </ul> If you look at the above list, are there one or two Life Lessons that really stand out for you? My Life Lesson is "not expressing my authentic feelings due to the perceived expectations of others." Sooooo... now I'm doing new and different things with my business - and what do I fear? You guessed it! I fear what other people think and feel about me. (I recognize I have no control over what others think and feel about me. But it doesn't make my lesson any less painful for the knowing.) If you follow any fear to its natural conclusion, the fear is a painful outcome - humiliation, shame, excommunication, torture, fire, starvation, annihilation, etc. You think I'm kidding? I'm not kidding. THAT'S why we get so afraid about making that important phone call, closing the sale, standing up to our mother or father or our children. Our Life Lesson is the surface issue that trips us up - it acts, amazingly enough, as a PROTECTION mechanism. What lies below that surface issue is our fear of not surviving. Fear lives in our mid-brain or *reptile brain* and it runs on instinct. All our crocodile brain knows is that if you step into the "Life Lesson Zone," something scary is going to happen. And then the drama begins. You get distracted, you procrastinate, you have no money, you have no time... The drama is the crocodile brain's way of keeping you from FACING your Life Lesson and hence, learning it. By not facing the Life Lesson, our crocodile brain achieves ITS goal of keeping us stuck. When we learn our Life Lesson, we actualize our Life PurposeAbout the Author: Baeth Davis, "The Hand Analyst," is a professional hand analyst specializing in non-predictive palmistry. She helps female entrepreneurs, small business owners and women experiencing major life transitions to discover the calling of their souls and create practical, pragmatic business plans to make their unique life purposes both meaningful AND profitable. Visit Baeth at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.handanalyst.com">http://www.handanalyst.com</a> to learn more and get a free copy of “The 5 Massive Mistakes Spiritually Oriented Women Make in Business (and How to Avoid Them!”Article Source: <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/">ArticlesBase.com</a> - <a href="http://www.articlesbase.com/entrepreneurship-articles/the-real-reason-you-have-fear--810672.html" title="The Real Reason You Have Fear ">The Real Reason You Have Fear </a>

I've been thinking about this question a lot lately: "What's the REAL reason we have fear?" Why? Because I've been having more fear than usual. Why? I'm doing things that are new in my business and thus, I'm in unfamiliar territory.

You've probably heard these explanations for the root of your fear more than once:

You're out of your comfort zone
You need more information
You fear the unknown
You lack courage
You lack focus
You lack self-confidence

And that's just a short list! While all of those reasons are potentially valid depending upon the situation, I'd like to dig a little deeper, using your fingerprints as our map through fear.

Your fingerprints reveal several aspects of your soul, and one of those aspects is your Life Lesson. Your Life Lesson is your blind spot, your gremlin, your nemesis, your "negative tapes."

Your Life Lesson could be one or a combination of these issues:

panic caused by a life out of balance (everything is an *emergency*)
anxiety making decisions
not expressingyour authentic feelings due to the perceived expectations of others
sacrificing yourself into burdensome obligation
lack of clarity about your definition of success
challenges owning your power in the world
challenges managing your energy, time and money
challenges expressing your creativity
challenges speaking up for your self
challenges with your family and community (on a life scale)
challenges finding your passion and dealing with victimization, shame and numbness
challenges finding your niche due to guilt ("If I succeed, it takes away from others." THAT kind of guilt)
paralyzing fear of rejection
trust/surrender/intimacy issues with anything: other people, food, money, etc.

If you look at the above list, are there one or two Life Lessons that really stand out for you? My Life Lesson is "not expressing my authentic feelings due to the perceived expectations of others." Sooooo... now I'm doing new and different things with my business - and what do I fear? You guessed it! I fear what other people think and feel about me. (I recognize I have no control over what others think and feel about me. But it doesn't make my lesson any less painful for the knowing.)

If you follow any fear to its natural conclusion, the fear is a painful outcome - humiliation, shame, excommunication, torture, fire, starvation, annihilation, etc. You think I'm kidding? I'm not kidding. THAT'S why we get so afraid about making that important phone call, closing the sale, standing up to our mother or father or our children.

Our Life Lesson is the surface issue that trips us up - it acts, amazingly enough, as a PROTECTION mechanism. What lies below that surface issue is our fear of not surviving. Fear lives in our mid-brain or *reptile brain* and it runs on instinct. All our crocodile brain knows is that if you step into the "Life Lesson Zone," something scary is going to happen.

And then the drama begins. You get distracted, you procrastinate, you have no money, you have no time... The drama is the crocodile brain's way of keeping you from FACING your Life Lesson and hence, learning it. By not facing the Life Lesson, our crocodile brain achieves ITS goal of keeping us stuck. When we learn our Life Lesson, we actualize our Life Purpose

Baeth Davis, "The Hand Analyst," is a professional hand analyst specializing in non-predictive palmistry. She helps female entrepreneurs, small business owners and women experiencing major life transitions to discover the calling of their souls and create practical, pragmatic business plans to make their unique life purposes both meaningful AND profitable. Visit Baeth at http://www.handanalyst.com to learn more and get a free copy of “The 5 Massive Mistakes Spiritually Oriented Women Make in Business (and How to Avoid Them!”

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