Live like it.

You’re afraid of a potential outcome, a future situation that you’re imagining.

You’re afraid of your imagination.

Realize this deeply, and feel free to laugh at yourself.

You’re using your creative power against you to imagine an unfavorable future situation and then avoiding it.

That has some utility, sometimes. For instance, in the case of keeping yourself physically safe when the risk of a physical threat is high.

So when something actually threatens your life, sure. Go for it.

But most of our fears don’t threaten our lives. They threaten our egos.

The ego is built on the familiar. It’s constructed by our past. It is limited.

It prioritizes the perpetuation of the familiar, because that is the stuff it knows.

And what it knows is safe.

What it doesn’t know is unsafe. The nervous system responds to this perception of threat. The priority? Keep you safe. Maintain what’s familiar.

But what happens when what’s right for you is unfamiliar?

What happens when the perceived threat is following your heart?

What happens?

You talk yourself out of what’s right for you.

Why?

Fear of rejection? So you reject yourself?

Fear of failure? So you fail yourself?

Fear of scarcity? So you limit yourself?

And the rejection, failure, and scarcity you imagine, fear, and avoid are all your creations.

Don’t use your creative power against yourself.

Don’t live a half-lived life.

You’re a kid. You’re afraid of a monster under the bed. You’re making that monster up.

The best thing to do is to look under the bed and realize that.

Realize that it’s your imagination you’re afraid of.

Realize you’re choosing certain self-inflicted pain over possible future pain (which you are entirely capable of handling by the way).

Tell me how a potential unfavorable future circumstance is scarier than not following your heart.

Tell me.

How is a hypothetical imagined scenario constructed from the pollution of your previous life experience scarier than abandoning yourself?

May you be more loyal to your heart than to the fears steering you away from it.

You are consciousness itself.

God’s got your back.

Live like it.