How many times have you permitted fear to take over your mind? At different stages of your life, fear may seem to pop up, as if uninvited.   It may be news to you that you create precisely what you feel.  You do this for reasons you may not yet understand.

On closer look, you can discern fear is simply an extension of wounds you bury inside yourself.  You're responsible for changing this.  What would it take to realize beliefs have no hold over you?  Consider these five tips to disempower your sources of discomfort:

1) List your fears.  The only way to zero in on the real issue is to figure out what you think you're afraid of and uncover what this hides.  Your imagination transforms aspects of your life based on worry about things that never happen.  Ready to nip this in the bud? 

2) Determine what you really mean.  If you feel inhibited or say you're timid, this isn't what you really mean.  In all likelihood, you fear external reactions and judgment of people, maybe even your own criticism.  This unearths the crux of the matter: your feelings about your own self-image, self-worth and self-acceptance.  Identify the cause of your behavior and you realize how you victimize yourself.  Knowledge is power.

3) Realize you have all you need.  A sense of fear often grows from a perceived lack.  get this: all lacks are illusions you conjure inside.  If you convince yoruself you're uncomfortable in a particular situation, why do you stay? why do you resist change?  why do you ignore the truth?   Does action threaten your sense of security? Self-importance? Nothing you choose is self-destructive unless you believe that.

4)  Grasp that your beliefs are innacurate.  Have you ever wondered if what you seek has eluded you because how you see the world and yourself is grounded in fear rather than something else.  You are the only person who can re-interpret what the something else mans to you.  How you think is limiting you.  Your views could be different.  Life is not as you assume.  What will  it take to stretch your senses?

5) Commit to move through your smokescreen.  If you have ever envisioned a worst case scenario, you realize things are not as bad as your mind would make them out to be.  Whatever the fear, you're still alive.  Your senses are functioning.  You begin to see the only thing you have to fear is your mind taking control and preventing you from living.