Is Lack of Inner Trust Keeping Fear By Your Side and Hindering Your Success?

Many types of fear run rampant due to lack of trust, which when entertained in someone's mind, bring about the thing most feared. Remember fears are learned beliefs, as you were not born with your current fears other than the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises.

All other fears you therefore acquired through your parents, the media, friends, school, and religious leaders. So when you hear the fearful thoughts expressed in your mind chatter, whose voice and lack of trust are you really hearing? How is that interfering with your overall success in life?

"There is nothing to fear but fear itself." Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Scientists, theologians, psychologists, and philosophers have all proven that what we think and focus on, with emotion, we bring about. Simply put, thoughts of worry and doubt mixed with fear produce negative outcomes in your physical world and keep you away from your best success.

Fear is simply a state of mind based on past experience and on anticipated future outcomes. Fear is the expectation of a certain pain. Neither needs to be your reality. Your past does not need to equal your future and your future can be whatever you desire to create.

Most fears fall into the following categories:

Fear of criticism


Fear of poverty


Fear of ill health


Fear of loss of a loved one


Fear of old age


Fear of death.


Whichever fear you are holding onto is what's actually stopping you from reaching your highest potential and being all you can be. Frequently we fear something because we really would rather not take full responsibility for our entire life experience.

Why are you so fearful of changing what you know deep down needs to change? Wouldn't it be easier to make the decision once in for all to eliminate the current problem and move towards the success you want?

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

Most people go about attempting to create what they want by setting goals for themselves and by taking actions towards these goals. Yet, despite the best plans, they spend most of their time worrying about why and how things will not work out instead of expecting their success to manifest. They do not trust the process.

We do things, which at a subconscious level, we believe will work. So if you choose to worry it is because you believe it pays to worry. Yet, how is worrying working for you?

Worrying comes from being focused on the past or on the future. We cannot change the past, so you might as well drop it.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better yesterday.

On the other hand, you cannot control the future either, so you might as well leave it alone.

Instead, if you were to keep your mind and energy on the present moment, and trust your inner self, you would find yourself receiving inspiration. You would therefore be able to take inspired action. Inspired action coming from the heart always leads you to a life infused with greater joy and ease.

As you have read previously, what you resist persists. So if you are resisting fear and trying to run away from it, it will hang around. The fear acts like a pet. It runs around you, chases you, and is looking for your attention - until you stop and acknowledge it.

As hard as it may sound to do, stop yourself and face your fear. Ask yourself what the worse possible outcome might be? Acknowledge your fear and thank it for what it is teaching you, and for what it has done for you so far.

Let yourself feel the fear by sitting with it. Let the feeling bring up the tears if need be, do not suppress the feeling and trust that it is worth working through your emotions. Breathe through it. Then when you are done, change your focus to the desired outcome and keep your focus on the desire.

We have the habit of putting all of our faith in the physical evidence we see, and yet those results have come about from our thoughts. If we want to see our desires come true then that is what we must focus on. We need to let go of any indecision, worry, doubt, and fear to the contrary.

Your inner being at its core - your Essence (your god self, that piece of you that is pure and good - use whatever word here that works for you) - comes from love and all that is good. It does not operate from fear. If you choose to stay stuck in fear, you are denying your Self the ability to go forth and be all You can be. You are actually choosing to stay away from success - however you define it for yourself.

Develop your inner trust and start letting go of the fear that is standing by your side and hindering your success.