Be Free From Fear Through Journaling

By yogaguid on 16th March, 2011

Do fears and phobias interfere with your achieving your goals and dreams? Did you know that there are effective tools and techniques available (I know of 22 of them) for overcoming fear and living life free from fears and phobias? One of these powerful tools is Journaling. Let’s talk about how you can use the power of Journaling to live your life free from fear.

Before we can explore how journaling can help you become free from fear, we need to talk about how journaling differs from keeping a diary, as this difference is crucial to the success of this tool. In a diary, you primarily are recording the events of your life. A journal is less of a historical record than a place where you can write down your feelings about the things that are happening in your life. In particular, people tend to use their journals to express their negative feelings about their life’s events.

One form of journaling that’s particularly powerful in conquering fear is to write about past events that scared you or left you helpless. Such events often still resonate in our current lives, in the form of irrational fears based in those long-past events. Used well, a journal can help you to work through your feelings about events that have hurt you deeply. As you work through these feelings, they will automatically loosen their grip on you.

Another form helps you deal with your fears about the possible consequences of actions or decisions you will be making. In this case, you would write out your fears, then write down ways you could cope even if these worst case scenarios do come to pass. Making these fears concrete by writing them down, then showing yourself that you can handle whatever happens, often leaves you free from fear of taking the action in the first place.

And don’t forget that this is only one of the techniques for curing fears and phobias I would like to share with you. There are many more you can try. If you would like to learn more about how to apply this technique as well as learn about 21 more tools that can help you cure fear permanently, please CLICK HERE.