How limiting is FEAR in your life?

I suffer from anxiety and a lot of times I fear things that have a very low probability of even happening. It's a terrible feeling and has kept me up at night. I also fear something happening to my children. The fear that that inhibits me the most is driving. I can drive in places that I know with less fear, but if I don't COMPLETELY know the area I just won't do it. I have no sense of direction and my fear of getting lost overwhelms me. This is the one fear I am really trying to overcome in my life.

well good to know that a site sends you such wonderful quotes.. will be happy to join this site.. well the fears are limitless, what is more imp. is that how you deal with them.. every fear should bring you a new experience.. you should overcome your fear by doing positive things in life..

I am also quite like you, little hesitant and shy when I was still on my teens. I do excell in some ways, but I get shy whenever someone acknowledges me work. I don't know, maybe I'm just not used to it. I still have this feeling up until now, but I make sure the I have the guts to face all the chllenges and ready myself for whatever the results of my work might end. also, I don't mind much about judgmental people because I know that I am the master of my own destiny!;)

There is truly nothing like age and experience to teach us that what ever we may fear is most often only in our minds. Our fear then stops us from addressing the issue and finding out the truth. About the only time in my life that I was ever depressed was when my perception of my job performance was not good. I had a review coming up. This of course not only meant more money but builds your self esteem. Except that is when you get a poor one. I was convinced that for the first time in my life I would get a poor rating. I was so convinced that when I went to an indoor soccer game with my son it was like I was there but not there. Normally I would have the wild time everyone else did but all I could think of was this review. It completely ruined that night for me. The review? One of my best ever. All in my head and of course I learned from that. Having a poor self esteem almost guarantees that you will have fear of a lot of things. Mostly relationships. After all how can you ever measure up. Fear is crippling, it stops you from doing the most basic things and can keep you from having a very productive life. But 99% of that fear is only what we imagine.

Don't you just love those Notes? I belong to that site as well, and I love Mike Dooley's biggie three words he always says, "Thoughts Become Things" Do you belong to the forum there? I do. Another powerful book I read sometime ago, and plan to read again is Susan Jeffer's "Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway." How true. To overcome any fears we may have, you have to do the exact thing you fear...if you keep at it and do it over and over, and over again, you no longer fear it. You see I've been dealing with panic disorder with agoraphobia for many, many years..too many. There was one time I was completely housebound..well no longer, thank goodness. I still have a ways to go to overcome it, since I'm not exactly ready to book a flight to France..LOL...but hey, I do plan to do that..uh, my vision boards...have pictures of places I want to travel, things I want to do and accomplish. When one realizes that YOU yourself are often placing those fears, then one can take action to overcome them..and that's precisely what I'm doing :)

my fears are not limited they are limitless i fear each and everything ...for example i have fear of heights so i cant climb over tall buildinds or monuments and especially swings i cannot even dare to stay or sit down there because it gives me vomitting sensation and there is butterfly like feeling in stomach but trust me fear cannot be overcome so easily

Well my friend - I believe that life's too short to be limited by anything, so I'm very glad to say I'm not scared of anything apart from possibly thunder and lightening, which I have a phobia about, but it wouldn't stop me living my life if that makes sense! Life is a wonderful thing to be grasped with both hands and enjoyed - not to hide away from. Yes of course there are bad people and we may get hurt along the way, but better to be hurt and ecperience life in all it's forms, than hide away in fear and not to live at all!

thanks for sharing. you are absolutely right. some fears can get into into ways of life very bady and its so frustrating. i have gone through a time when i thought that every one around me was just talking about what i was thinking and that was bad. and so much way. i always want to cross my hurdles in life and get over any thing negative. and know that if one tries long enough one can always get over any fear. didnt all great people do that? thats what i think. thankyou for the site too i am going to see how it may help me further if it can. smiles, apple.