7 Ways To Overcome Fear and Live Your Dreams

Anais Nin once wrote, “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage”.

If you’re longing to expand your life by going after your dreams, here are 7 ways to overcome fear which may be keeping you stuck.

1. Shine the light on your fear.

Pinpoint the fear that’s plaguing you the most — about your body, finances, love life, career, dreams or yourself — and hold it up to the light of your awareness.

Ask yourself honestly: Is this thought really true? Can I know for sure? Is there another way of looking at this? What would the highest version of me say about this?

Remember, the word thought is not synonymous with the word truth. Your thoughts are not necessarily true or important and you don’t have to take them so seriously.

Think of them like passing clouds in the sky — they come and they go. Your true self is the ever-present observer who watches your fear-based thoughts as they pass by.