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One of the more difficult aspects of life is that we feel our emotions and the thoughts and feelings that come with those emotions. We feel fear, we think fear and we even feel that we are afraid. The reality is that we are not really afraid, we just think we are. We fear things because we fear losing control, we fear fear itself and we also fear feeling afraid.
Actually, what you need to do is stop thinking of yourself as a frightened person and start seeing yourself as a person who has fears. What you need to do is start trusting yourself enough to know that you can handle any situation you might find yourself in. When you do this, your fears will lose their power and you can then feel and deal with them as they arise instead of letting them harden into something you don’t notice.
Only when this happens will you find peace inside of yourself.
Source: The Liars Club
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