Ask Your Fear Questions.
Instead of trying to boss it around.
Sometimes your fear creeps up.
And you might want to give in to it.
To let fear invent situations for you to solve.
Or you might want to dictate it.
You might want to get angry at your fear.
You might want to roar and fight against it.
But there is a third option.
Ask your fear questions.
Instead of trying to boss around an emotion (which doesn’t work; they are tricky that way), and eliminate it, you can approach it with questions.
Emotions unravel under questions.
They unravel when given space.
They expose their origins.
And so when fear tells you that you’re going to get sick, that you’re going to lose money, that you’re going to die, that you’re never going to find love —
Ask your fear why it’s saying this.
Is it because someone else got sick, and now all you see is sickness?
Is it because money is tight, and money has always been tight — For you, for your parents, for their parents?
