Learn to Be Free From Fear by Rewriting It

By yogaguid on 1st February, 2011

Are your fears keeping you from living the life you want? Did you know that there are powerful tools and techniques available for overcoming fear and living life free from fear? One powerful approach is called Rewriting the Fear. Let’s talk about how Rewriting your thoughts lets you live your life free from fear.

The key to Rewriting the Fear is understanding that your body reacts to what you believebelieve about the situation, not to some absolute outside reality. Convince yourself something is harmful or dangerous and you’ll feel fear. But if you can instead choose to believe something more positive about the situation, your body will have no reason to generate a fear response. It all depends on what you believe about the situation.

That’s easier said than done. Or is it? You don’t want to lie to yourself, and you don’t have to. We interpret everything that we experience. And if we put our minds to it, we can always come up with an alternate interpretation of our experience. So the most basic approach to Rewriting the Fear asks you to change your interpretation. Instead of just assuming that your negative first interpretation of a situation is the correct one, come up with other plausible interpretations that fit the facts, but don’t have such negative repercussions for you. Let’s look at an example of what I mean.

Your best friend snarls at you and walks away when you ask how their day has been. You can interpret this in the worst possible light and become afraid that your friend doesn’t like you anymore. But their behavior doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with you, and you can choose to interpret it differently. Maybe they had a fight with their significant other. Maybe their car broke down. Maybe they’re sick. Their behavior doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with you or your friendship.

Rewriting fear is such a powerful tool that people who are practiced in it can use it to turn almost any negative-seeming situation into a positive one. By exploring alternative interpretations of the situation (by rewriting your fear) your fear will fade as you see all the brighter possibilities inherent in the situation.

Rewriting the Fear is just one of the many techniques for curing fear I would like to share with you. 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.