What do you look for daily?
When everyone around us told us that we were not going to survive Mexico – that we’d be robbed or mobbed and everything else in between; that we were “defenseless” – we fought really hard internally not to believe them… And we still we got scared.
We didn’t want to die.
Fear got into our space and we began seeing EVERYTHING as a threat to our lives.
We wouldn’t leave the house after sundown. We carried our bags strapped in front us. And with every 3-5 steps, we’d turned and looked behind our backs, just to make sure we weren’t being followed.
We became paranoid. We began looking for danger.
Well, we got what we were looking for – a near death experience.
The experience shocked us out of our fear-based reality, and taught us to look for something else.
This was what we found:
Choose what you’re looking for.
Remember your stack of “Current Fears” post-it notes from this one powerful exercise?
How do you turn those fears into empowering beliefs that help you see what you can do – that you’d not only survive (like we did) – you’d triumph and thrive?
Follow these 3 simple steps:
- Take a deep breath, then using a pen, strike out fear number one
- Replace it with a belief that empowers you – write it down
- Work through that whole list
That’s it.
Now you have a stack of empowering beliefs through which you see and manifest your reality.
We call them our “power-ups” – reminders to choose what we’re looking for.
So the next time you find yourself running into your deepest fears left-right-and-center, ask yourself – “What’cha looking for?” – and choose again.
Leave a reply in the comments section below and share what “power-ups” you chose over those fears.
We’d love to hear from you, and your choices might inspire others to choose better, too!
Cheers to choosing better,
@taynval
P.S. Know someone who’s limited and bounded by fears and could do with some “shock therapy” (laughs included)? Share this and this post with them!
2 Comments on “What’cha looking for?”
Love your story and power ups!! :)
I have mantras I use to use to push me past the fear to do what I need to do.
I find that looking to all of the times that things worked out okay (instead of the failures) also helps me take the steps I need to.
What it really boils down to, is what you two young ladies said… Ask yourself a better question. <3
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. We checked out your mantra cards and love them, Naomi!