I've met people who complain about how fear controls their lives and prevents them from taking risks they assume would lead to greater fulfillment.  Nonetheless, they continue making thought and life choices that reinforce feeling fearful.  They associate fear with their own pain and suffering, yet remain unaware of what they can do.  The time you have can be used to shift your own judgement.

It's ineffective to ask other people to release you from your inner fear.  Only you can release yourself from what you create.  You may simply underestimate the power you have to change. Don't know where to start?  Here are some suggestions;

1) Tell yourself fear doesn't exist.  Write it down.  Say it aloud.  Make decisions that force you to face sources of fear.  Easier said than done, you say? Well, it begins in your mind.  You may not yet understand the power of thoughts and how you can take steps to transform them. Only when you're ready will you decide to think and create a different way of seeing and living your life. When will you begin?

2) Realize the law of cause and effect.  By choosing fear, this state of mind naturally effects the state of your life.  Think of it this way: what if fear causes you to misperceive everyone and everything, to underestimate your abilities and potential, to hold yourself back without good reason? It pays to rethink your freedom to choose.  What would it take to stop believing in the power of something which doesn't exist? After all, you conjured it up.  Ask yourself why.

3) To focus on error is to reinforce error.  As a child, you may have imagined ghosts in your closet that made you afraid at night.  When you called out for your parents, they would tell you that you had no reason to feel afraid because those scary images were only in your mind.   If you had not been given reason to correct your thinking, you may have gone on just as you were.  Yet, you were encouraged to correct yourself and move to a new state of mind.  You can do this, even now.

4) Understand what is worthy.  To imprison your mind is to convince yourself that you will be punished for taking certain courses of action.  In order to discover inner peace, you need to learn not to frighten yourself with projections.  Choose instead to think about what is positive, creative, and good.  If you're tempted to succomb to fear, replace them with warm, lovable feelings.  Don't know the difference? Find out!