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simply changing our attitude (as we do when neutralizing obstacles).
Since every impeding mood works in a different way, we first need to understand how they manage to hijack our emotions so thoroughly. Only then can we completely remove them from our life.
Fear / Worry / Insecurity Nearly ALL fears and worries are purely imaginary and - given time - fade all by themselves. We only need to remember our many bygone fears to realize how superfluous they were.
Insecurity is never caused by inborn weakness. It mostly is brought about by long endured fear.
Fears arise when we encounter situations we never dealt with before. Almost automatically our mind assumes worst case scenarios and our emotions willingly follow its lead. Yet this programs us to experience exactly what we dread.
Example: At times of exams we easily fear failure. Our fright may get so strong that all our ability to think gets paralyzed. Failure thus becomes a real possibility.
Yet there's no compulsion to only feel fear at an exam (or other critical situations). We are utterly free to choose the exact emotions we want to accompany our experiences. Instead of selecting fear, we can as easily choose 'I've succeeded before, I'll now succeed as well.' Switching into this kind of 'SURE MODE' emotion supports our endeavors far better than anticipating failure.
