I have clear memories of feeling fear when walking up the basement stairs of my childhood home. In fact, I could make it up about half the steps and then would run the rest of the way and close the door behind me.
I recall feeling fear when I would face someone in an altercation or when I would simply think that I was going to have an altercation.
I remember feeling fear when I was going on stage for the first time in high school.
Most of, if not all of these could have been mislabeled excitement.
Fear and excitement register in the same place of the brain and release the same chemicals into the body.
Fear, often times, is a choice.
There is good fear, the type that fill me with cortisol and gives me energy to flee, freeze, fight, or fawn in a truly dangerous situation yet that is short lived and best used only in emergent situations.
Today I have little to no fear due to my choices to relabel that which I used to think was scary, the unknown, and the made-up memories of my past.
The unknown is simply things I have never experienced, and those times literally up to me to decide.
Everything else is the Universe bringing me that which I get to enjoy in this realm of the human beings.
The unknown is exciting; it is always providing me a lesson about myself.
Today I choose to live in excitement and release myself from fear.
You are Love and Loved.
