How Rewriting the Fear Frees You From It

Do irrational fears interfere with your achieving your goals and dreams? Are you aware that with the right tools you can overcome fear and phobias to live the life you want and deserve? Rewriting the Fear is one of the powerful tools at your disposal. Let's talk about how Rewriting your thoughts lets you live your life free from fear.

The key to Rewriting the Fear is the knowledge that your body reacts to what you believe, not to some absolute outside reality. Convince yourself something is harmful or dangerous and you'll feel fear. Convince yourself that the situation isn't harmful or dangerous and your body won't react with fear. How your body reacts to any situation depends on what you believe about the situation.

But how can you do this? You don't want to lie to yourself, and you don't have to. We interpret everything that we experience. And there's almost always more than one way to interpret an experience. So the most basic approach to Rewriting the Fear asks you to change your interpretation. Instead of just assuming that your negative first interpretation of a situation is the correct one, come up with other plausible interpretations that fit the facts, but aren't negative for you. A simple example will help.

Your best friend snarls at you and walks away when you ask how their day has been. You can interpret this in the worst possible light and become afraid that your friend doesn't like you anymore. But their behavior doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, and you can choose to interpret it differently. Maybe they had a fight with their significant other. Maybe their car broke down. Maybe they're sick. Their behavior doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you or your friendship.

If you choose to learn more about Rewriting the Fear, you'll find that there are even ways to take this further and turn a negative-seeming situation into a positive one. By exploring alternative interpretations of the situation (rewriting your fears) you will find that your fear lessens as you see all the other, less negative possibilities.