Overcoming Anxiety and Fear of Flying, Death, Failure and Other Fears, Anxieties and Phobias
Author of “The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well Being” shares the secret of anxiety management.
Sedona, Arizona (PRWEB) August 17, 2005 -- Do you have a fear of flying, death, or failure? Are you afraid of the dark, heights, or public speaking? Does commitment phobia make you so anxious that that it impacts your inner peace, joy and love?
Hale Dwoskin, the author of The New York Times bestseller “The Sedona Method:
Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well Being,” shares
the secret of anxiety management at www.sedona.com/lp-anxiety.aspx">www.sedona.com/lp-anxiety.aspx.
Dwoskin says, “One
of the topics we explore in The Sedona Method is that anything that we are
afraid of happening, we actually have a subconscious desire for or expectation
of happening.” Based on this premise, you may find the following exploration
helpful for releasing your reactions to what is going on in the world, and for
releasing your fears in general.
Make yourself comfortable and focus
inwardly. Begin by bringing to mind something about which you feel afraid or
anxious—you may want to start with something small—in order to see exactly what
it is that you fear is going to happen. Give yourself a moment to notice whether
there is a strong feeling of fear at the moment, or a very light hint of fear.
It doesn’t matter which it is: simply observe and welcome it.
Now, ask
yourself: Could you let go of wanting this to happen? Or could you let go of
expecting this to happen?
The question may have made you laugh. Try
asking the question again, and notice what else you discover. In fact, you may
already be able to discern a difference. So, focus on that same thing you’re
afraid of, or on something else, and then go through a series of questions for
releasing fear in this simple way.
What is it that you’re afraid will
happen? What is it you do not want to have happen? Now, could you let go of
wanting that to happen? Or could you let go of expecting this to
happen?
Once you’ve gotten over the shock of the fact that you somehow
want a negative thing to happen, it’s often very easy to let go of the fear in
this way because, consciously, it’s not truly what you want.
If you get
stuck on any particular fear and are having a hard time letting it go, simply
welcome the feeling as best you can and then let go of wanting to change it.
Then go back to experimenting with this shortcut.
Again, focus on
something that you fear. It could be the same thing or it could be something
else. Notice exactly what it is that you’re afraid will happen. If you’re afraid
of heights, for instance, underneath it there might really be a fear of
falling.
Could you let go of wanting that to happen? Or could you let go
of expecting this to happen?
Focus again on that same fear, or on
something else that you do not want to have happen, on something that you worry
about, or on something that makes you nervous. Maybe you have a fear of public
speaking. This could include the fear of failure, or of seeming like a fool in
front of a roomful of people.
Whatever underlying fear you feel: Could
you let go of wanting that to happen? Or could you let go of expecting this to
happen?
Check how you feel inside. Wasn’t it easy to let go in that way?
This process will help you clear out the hidden recesses of your subconscious
mind. After you release something that you’ve subconsciously wanted to happen,
you’ll see a tremendous difference in your life in many areas, including how you
feel. Have fun experimenting with this shortcut on your own.
Add this
little trick to your toolbox of Sedona Method applications and enjoy the
results. It’s great for those occasions when fearful thoughts arise in your
consciousness, but you don’t have enough time to do an in-depth process.
Whenever you become aware of yourself thinking about an unwanted outcome, simply
let go of wanting it to happen by asking yourself the question: Could you let go
of wanting or expecting that to happen?
As you use this Method, you will
find over time that the very situations and experiences that you used to find
the most exhausting or disturbing will become less and less so, until you may
even forget that you used to have those kinds of experiences.
Hale
Dwoskin is the CEO and Director of Training of Sedona Training Associates, an
organization headquartered in Sedona, Arizona. He is an international speaker
and featured faculty member at Esalen and the Omega Institute. For over a
quarter of a century, he has regularly been teaching the Sedona Method to
individuals and at corporations throughout the United States and the United
Kingdom, and leading facilitator trainings and advanced retreats since the early
1990's. In addition to being the author of “The Sedona Method: Your Key to
Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well Being,” Dwoskin is also the
co-author of the five-book series “Happiness Is Free and It's Easier than You
Think.”
Sedona Training Associates currently offers seminars throughout
the US, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Eastern and Western Europe, and Japan.
It also publishes audio programs that are distributed worldwide. In addition,
the organization publishes a quarterly newsletter, and maintains a website: www.sedona.com">www.sedona.com. More
information about anxiety management can be found at www.sedona.com/lp-anxiety.aspx">www.sedona.com/lp-anxiety.aspx.
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