“It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it.  Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith,” Emma Watson.  For millennia people have shared similar sentiment and it’s something I want to echo.  There are parts of life that are super complex—the intricacies of survival and determining what we need and what we want and how we are going to live aren’t necessarily easy.  Perhaps a simple decision, yes, but easy to execute and stand by, no.  Life requires a certain finesse of knowing when to alter our decisions and when to stick with our boundaries and when to hold back and when to go for it.  There are absolutely times we need to put that fear aside and simply tackle what we want head on.  We need to understand that sometimes life is less about doing and more about having faith—and sometimes it’s having faith enough to take action no matter the potential of the outcome. 

There will always be something that terrifies our primal brain—we simply work that way as it is part of our survival mechanism.  Additionally, none of us are born without emotion so there will always be some type of external influence.  We just need to learn to manage that and we need to learn what is ours to carry.  Some of those fears aren’t even ours and we need to learn to put them down.  It really is ok to say, “I will not be burdened with something that was never my issue in the first place.”  That can apply to generational things as well as current coping/adapting behaviors—a parent being afraid of failure doesn’t mean we have to be afraid and just because people demand our energy doesn’t mean we have to give it.  The beauty of fear is that every time we face it we learn something more about ourselves that we are capable of.  And in order to overcome it, we need to face it.

At the end of the day the only way to move forward is to face everything—especially our fears.  The more we run and choose to ignore what’s in front of us, the longer we delay living or doing what we actually need to do.  Plus I can’t tell you how many times the act of facing something I didn’t want to took so much less energy than avoiding it.  We build up the things we don’t want to do to a degree they become this unpassable mountain in our minds.  Truly, even if there ARE challenging parts, all we need to do is put one foot in front of the other and allow things to pass as they are meant to.  It’s a matter of tackling life one thing at a time.  The biggest mountains are in our minds—and so is the biggest prison.  Master the mind and understand what we need to do and the rest becomes easy.  Have faith that we will always know what we are meant to do—and then do it.