Making the Free Fall & Facing Fear

Making the Free fall & Facing Fear 

By Liz Hazell https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7718479346001289353#editor/target=post;postID=2211206684265937240

How often are we afraid to walk a different path? How often do we walk through the same door even though other avenues are available?  Even though those avenues may lead to the same place?

Fear holds us back from so much.

Fear of the unknown, fear of failure, fear of making a mistake. Fear of walking through a different door and ending up someplace completely unfamiliar. Change is hard, but the old adage “If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you always got,” is true.

Now, if you like what you’ve always gotten, there’s not a problem. Why shake things up? Some people don’t like adventures. Some people like to drive the same road, eat the same food, keep the same lover and wear the same hairstyle forever, and they are perfectly content.

The trouble arises when you’re not content.

When you’re in a bad relationship but you can’t summon the strength to leave. When your declining health means you need to change your diet and start exercising but you don’t know where to begin. When you hate your job but don’t have the skills to do anything else. That’s when walking through a different door can be daunting. Frightening. Overwhelming.

But what happens when you try something new? When you step out of your box and greet the world with a clean slate? Without preconceived ideas or notions, without judgments or fears. Okay, maybe a little bit of fear.

We always have two choices. We can keep running to the front door and know what to expect, or we can take a chance, walk through the garage, and peek into the kitchen. If we’re lucky, we have a loved one encouraging us and telling us it’ll be okay.  Someone to pick us up and carry us when we get too scared to go it alone.

But sometimes we have to take a deep breath, assess the perils of our new route home, and make a run for it.

This article was originally published on Dharma Sister.

Editor: Daniel Scharpenburg