{"id":1988,"date":"2012-10-30T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lettinggo\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2012-10-30T21:01:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T01:01:54","slug":"take-the-stuffing-out-of-what-scares-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2012\/10\/take-the-stuffing-out-of-what-scares-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Take The Stuffing Out of What Scares You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are fearful because there is a part of us that names the unknown moment. If you\u2019re afraid of an unknown moment, is it really unknown to you? You\u2019ve filled it with something, haven&#8217;t you? It&#8217;s like a bad donut with an evil cream in it. You take a bite of it and think, &#8220;How&#8217;d that get there?&#8221; You stuffed it! Learn to take the stuffing out of what scares you.<\/p>\n<p>Get fed up with being scared by recognizing that every fear you have just creates one limitation after another &#8212; that instead of actually confirming you the way you think it does, it \u00a0is simply destroying you.<\/p>\n<p>When something scares you, understand that what you see is nothing more than a form that has been congealed by a process inside of you that occurs whenever you think about yourself. Let the light pass through you. Don&#8217;t resist. Risk walking up to whatever it is that scares you and pull the stuffing out of it. If you don\u2019t do that, you\u2019ll be a \u201cscaredy cat\u201d your whole life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are fearful because there is a part of us that names the unknown moment. If you\u2019re afraid of an unknown moment, is it really unknown to you? You\u2019ve filled it with something, haven&#8217;t you? 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