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We are scared of lots of things, but often, the things we're scared of aren't as dangerous as we've been taught, and the things we're NOT scared of are ready to kill us! Come along as we explore fear and dangers, real and imagined.
Here are this episode’s Action Points:
Admit Your Fears — Just admitting your fears brings them out into the open, where you can then begin to transform them. Write them down in a list, and cross them off as you enact that transformation!
Educate Yourself — The most powerful way to diminish a fear is to educate yourself about it. By learning more, we remove the “unknown” which is often the trigger for our fears.
Learn Real Dangers and Make Behavioral Shifts — Real dangers, like Big Macs and driving, are things we can mitigate by changing our diets or driving safer. Learning what our real dangers are and learning to avoid them is one way to live longer and happier!
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7 thoughts on “Unleash Your Life Episode 14, Dangerous Things”
I think it’s time to get scared of cookies. Cookies? Sweet little things that will quiet a child for a few minutes? They can’t be dangerous. Or can they?
Little brother officially died of a heart problem. The heart problem could have been genetic OR the result of being a diabetic over the road truck driver. Several years ago he went to the local ER instead of taking his big truck out on the road. Within the next two months he had barely survived multiple heart attacks and strokes. He lost 50 lbs and finally escaped from the hospital to a rehab facility. After being there about a year and a half he was well enough to get home and then move into an apartment by himself. Every time I was in his apartment there were stacks of cookies on his table and cookie wrappers in the trash. We brought home a lot of cookies when we cleaned out his apartment after he was found dead.
I’m finding my fears are changing as I get older. Things like driving after dark are becoming scary. Loss of strength and energy are creeping up on me and even overtaking the fear of old age dementia. Trying new things is sometimes scarier than it used to be but today I’m trying the Sugar Free Sweet Potato Banana Muffins that you mentioned and provided a recipe for in an earlier episode. The sweet potatoes smelled amazing when they came out of the oven!
Yum with those muffins!!! =) Your story was very touching. And, it can get me frustrated that it’s okay to create, advertise, and sell foods that are essentially poisons, and furthermore, are designed to be addictive. My heart goes out to you my dear friend. Love, Kenton
muffins quite tasty. Grandkids liked them. I thought they needed a little more baking time. Or maybe a higher temperature.
Yummy =)
Oh, so glad you enjoyed them! We’ll have to try them a little hotter next time! Our little oven in the yurt is now very uneven in its baking, so it’s much more challenging =)
My worst fear is accidentally hurting a child. To get distracted and hit someone in a crosswalk. I’m scared of police! I’ve seen so many videos of police behaving very badly. Ultimately it’s pain and suffering that we fear. To overcome fear,,,hmm,,,maybe if we focus on loving like never before. What if we made giving our love a spiritual practice! Let love flow through us like a river all the time, no matter what.
You are speaking of bhakti!!! That love is a life-changing force. And I can relate to that fear of hurting a child. Once when my daughter Mirabelle was little I accidentally dumped her over on the ice when we were ice skating. I wasn’t paying attention, and the result was a lot of crying. I felt terrible! To hurt a child more than that would be devastating.
I commented in one of your videos about my fear of snakes. I can go to the zoo and look at snakes all day long, but I don’t like coming across them face to face in my garden or in the lawn. Even though they are just garter snakes and I know they won’t attack me, something about them is just unsettling. I have captured a few in a 5 gallon bucket and relocated them to the far end of the property, but I still won’t touch them.
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