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Alchemizing Fear and Anger: Harnessing Their Energy for Beauty and Faith
Anger and fear exist within us. What do we do with them? How do we alchemize them into leadership, power and energy, beauty and faith, commitment and devotion?
Most people live in fear.
Afraid their friends won’t approve of them.
They fear that their partner will leave them.
They are afraid that their boss will not like their work.
This always backfires.
Choose you! You only need your approval, not others!
People are afraid of being loved and rejected and ostracized; which is essentially a fear of death.
“Why do you accept the life you hate? Because I’m afraid I’ll die.”
It’s silly and nobody would say that, but that’s what it’s about. It takes a little courage and your “nothing to lose” level of unhappiness to actually start making some changes.
The fear narrative only gets bigger when you feed it.
Recognizing it for what it is is a great first step to building awareness and coping strategies so it doesn’t overtake you.
What’s more, when you’re constantly giving your energy to receiving the approval of others, you completely take your eye off…