{"id":544,"date":"2011-06-14T07:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/lettinggo\/?p=544"},"modified":"2011-06-09T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T03:17:07","slug":"walk-through-whatever-frightens-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lettinggo\/2011\/06\/walk-through-whatever-frightens-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Walk Through Whatever Frightens You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is no &#8220;preparing&#8221; to be fearless. Fearless actions don&#8217;t mean one acts without fear. Becoming fearless requires challenging fear&#8217;s right to rule one&#8217;s heart&#8230; until one sees, for oneself, that while the feel is real, the why of fear is (always) a lie (based on negative imagination). And once one sees this truth, then one realizes one&#8217;s former complicity with fear. This marks the beginning of the end of fear&#8217;s hold because, slowly but surely, more and more, one sees that fear is a creation of one&#8217;s own mind; one sees how it first makes up some horrible image about a time to come &#8212; and then resists its own dark imagining. The only thing left to do with some fear once one sees these truths is to consciously walk through it&#8230;much as a stage actor walks, without fear, through the dancing images of flames being projected on stage to create a fearful effect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no &#8220;preparing&#8221; to be fearless. Fearless actions don&#8217;t mean one acts without fear. Becoming fearless requires challenging fear&#8217;s right to rule one&#8217;s heart&#8230; until one sees, for oneself, that while the feel is real, the why of fear is (always) a lie (based on negative imagination). 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