Discovering the Way to Walk Out of Fear – Part Six

Discovering the Way to Walk Out of Fear – Part Six

 

My heart cries for the young people who end up behind bars paying for crimes they barely even understood. Most of the time, they’ve never been given the attention they so desired and needed. They’ve never been taught how to respect themselves.

 

I never displayed my fear through acts of violence - I never had the courage to do anything contrary to what someone else thought I should do. I was one of those fear-driven individuals who majored in depression and cowered to others. If truth were told, fear - whether displayed through anger or depression - is still a recipe for destruction.

 

Fear causes you to accept behavior from others that creates an unsafe place for you. Fear causes you to act out in ways that cause good people to alienate themselves from you. Fear causes you to make unwise decisions that will negatively change the course of your life.

 

Fear and faith are total opposites, and yet they work in quite the same way. Faith is believing in something before you actually see it. You can fear something that is dreadful - your faith in it will cause it to happen. On the other hand, you can believe in something wonderful and your faith in it will cause it to happen as well. Why not decide to use your faith in a positive manner?

 

I remember all too well how influenced I was by the situations that surrounded me. I was so shy and introverted because of my dysfunctional upbringing - I didn’t really know what my true desires were. I always second-guessed myself.

 

I could walk into a department store knowing exactly what I would like to purchase. However, I would walk out with something totally different, because someone would persuade me to purchase something else.

 

When I went to restaurants with friends, I would wait to see what they were ordering. I didn’t want to be the oddball that ordered something that was either too expensive or undesirable to the others.

 

Did you know there are some very elementary skills that every individual needs to develop in order to live in a contented state of mind?