What Can We Choose Over Fear

​Last week, I wrote a blog about choosing courage over fear.  Courage is a great choice and there are others as well.....  

When a situation arises which causes you fear, you can choose to develop another skill in place of the fear.

Here are some other options:

1. Choose faith.  Perhaps you believe in a higher power or that there exists something bigger than yourself.  In moments of fear, choose to practice your belief.
2. Choose gratitude.  In any moment, there is something that you can be grateful for.  List 5 things.  Sometimes, it’s hard to come up with something when you’re scared but you can always start with your body.  I am grateful for my breath, I am grateful for my heart that has not stopped beating, I am grateful for my mind and my ability to think…
3. Trust in life.  Trust that life will find a way or give you an answer even if you can’t yet see your way out.  Think of times in the past when you’ve been fearful or scared of something and then it all worked out in the end.  
4. Choose love.  Ask yourself, what would love do in this moment?  Will whatever is happening in my life affect me 5 years from now?  How about 10 years?  If it won’t, know that this will pass.
5. Choose to surrender.  Surrender to the circumstance.  Stop fighting it and see what’s really there.  Sometimes we spend so much time fighting something, we don’t ever stop to see if it’s something worth fighting for in the first place.

Whatever your choose to practice,  know that life is transient and that this too shall pass.  

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