I think if you were to talk with people that know me, they would say that I’m pretty good at stretching beyond my fears in service to manifesting my dreams. After all, I left the corporate world to channel angels. I moved to a new city to be with my husband. I live the life of an entrepreneur where each month is different than the one before. One time in an Angel Circle, one of the women in attendance said, “When I get scared of making the leap, I think about you and how you never get scared and you just forge ahead…” Her observation made me laugh, because the truth is I feel fear more often than I care to admit.
Fear is tricky. It warms up to you like an old friend and begins whispering sweet nothings to you. Maybe your fear tells you that the world is not ready to know the truth about you. My fear used to say that. A lot. It used to tell me to keep myself hidden otherwise people would see my flaws and insecurities. My fear would remind me how I never really fit in. My fear would tell me that I would never find love because my body was too big. These days my fear is more likely to curl up beside me to tell me that this might be the month when I don’t book enough business… that the miracle of co-creation won’t stop at my doorstep this month and I’ll have to go get a “real job.” Yep. That’s one of the threats my fear takes these days, “You might have to go get a JOB!” As if what I’m doing isn’t considered real work.
Thankfully, grace always finds me and sees me through the dark moments when the stickiness of my fear shouts through my thoughts. The sun rises the next day and I am somehow renewed and reminded that all is well in my world.
We are programmed to be resilient. Remember this. Even if fear knocks on your doorstep, you do not have to invite it in to live with you. Call in your angels. Call a friend.
Josephus likes to say, fear is the smallest part of you but it has the loudest voice. They use the example of traveling on an airplane. There are 200 people on the plane. One of them is a crying baby. All you can hear is the crying child. The smallest person on the plane is making the most noise. That is our fear. The smallest part of us making the biggest fuss.
Remember, you are mighty and you are strong. Living a courageous life doesn’t mean not feeling any fear. It means feeling the fear and moving through it. Not letting it stop you. The big life you seek often means walking through the forest of fear. Bring your flashlight and some granola bars and get going. Your life is worth it!
…and if you need some inspiration, check out Scare Yourself Every Day – it’s a site that chronicles Sherman Oaks writer, Greg Tung’s adventure of doing something that scared him every day for a year. Here’s the video he made celebrating the completion of his adventure. It’s really fun stuff.
P.S. Before you get worried, this isn’t a video about someone going to war… he’s playing paintball… just one of the 364 things that he did that scared him this past year 🙂