How To Overcome Fear Like A Boss

The Art Of Removing Fear And Anxiety From Your Heart

Life is conflict. It is an infinite battle between the outward drive toward life, and the inward pull toward death. When we look within ourselves, and arrive at the precise point where life and death meet, we find one of the most consequential emotions known to humanity: fear.

Coupled with shame, fear is the emotion none of us want to face. Ever. And yet, no matter how hard we try, it permeates every facet of our lives, often without us being aware of it.

Almost everything we do is informed by fear, and there is a very good reason for that: Fear is life.

Without fear, we would lose all motivation to adapt and grow. Fear not only drives us away from certain things, it also drives us toward a higher state. We fear death, and so we act in ways that keep us alive. We fear loss, and so scramble to maintain what we have. We even fear irrelevancy, and so work to evolve and improve ourselves, hence elevating our position in the world.

When we have just enough fear, we thrive. It’s like a wind behind our sail, thrusting us into the vast ocean we call life. However, when fear swells beyond what we can cope with, we become crippled. Being overrun by fear is one of the most harrowing, unbearable experiences we…