3 Gains From Overcoming Your Fears
Overcoming your fears safely and with proper support from your hype squad allows you to gain strength, resiliency, and self-respect and proves you are capable of anything when you put your mind to it. #DailyMight
Overcoming your fears safely and with proper support from your hype squad allows you to gain strength, resiliency, and self-respect and proves you are capable of anything when you put your mind to it. #DailyMight
Most bugs. Heights. Criticism. Failure. These are just some of the things fear. The names and items might be slightly different, but I’m sure you have a list of things that you’re scared of. Being scared and experiencing fear is a natural human instinct created by God and serves an important role in keeping us safe and on guard. How we react and overcome fear in a positive way can prove one mighty skill: You are capable of overcoming it.
Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1:9
Fear typically falls into one of seven basic fear groups (failure, criticism, sickness, and death – among others) and arises when a threat of harm – physical, emotional, or psychological – is present (real or imagined). While traditionally considered a negative emotion, fear actually serves an important role and keeps us from destroying ourselves by limits us from doing anything we like. When fear is used positively, we can gain valuable traits by being forced to overcome it.
You will gain … Strength.
Few skills will benefit you more in your adult life than possessing the mental strength required to overcome fears. Like quitting, overcoming is a learned skillset that once mastered allows you to take fear and use it as a motivator for growth. Daniel, in his various tests against fear (mostly against human counterparts that were perceived to be unbeatable), built up his mental courage (strength) to consistently overcome his temptation to be afraid of people.
You will gain … Resilience.
Learning to recover quickly from difficulties and adding the toughness by attempting to conquer your fears adds to your self awareness tool box and is a contributing factor in gaining resilience. Resiliency you learn by identifying fears and creating game plans to overcoming them builds your capacity for taking on and overcoming new ones. It’s a positive snowballing of confidence that makes you overall capable of things you might have thought would be unsurmountable before.
You will gain … Self-Respect.
A healthy level of self-respect enables you to have the confidence to set firm boundaries and converts the threat of a fear into a known commodity. Confidence in oneself and knowing and accepting your strengths and weaknesses by taking on your fears come with a feeling that one is behaving with honor and dignity and constantly improving or growing.
We’ve learned now that fear is a threat – real or imagined – and that it is a natural human instinct. We are encouraged to acknowledge our fears, advise a game plan for overcoming them, and to most importantly, face them. When we do, we unlock super powers like mental strength, resiliency, and self-respect. But the biggest take away? By overcoming our fears we prove that we are capable of anything when we set our minds to it.
Give everything your everything. And then some.
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