WHY ARE WE SO AFRAID?

This was posted on a blog I follow, and it is just perfect. This blackboard gets erased every day - which is the perfect way to deal with fears:

1. Acknowledge them. Fears are a very real, honest emotional response to many things.

2. However, 99.9% of the time, our fears are of something that might happen - that is possible, at least in our mind, but it HAS NOT OCCURRED yet.

Some fears are life-saving - fears of heights, weapons, dangerous situations can keep us alive.

But most fears ARE NOT OF REAL THINGS, they are of POSSIBILITIES which can APPEAR real to our minds and thoughts.

So I love the image of simply wiping them out.

Your thoughts cannot hurt you unless you allow them to.