Imagine what you would do if you were not afraid. How many times have you disappointed yourself by surrendering to your fears rather than taking actions? Many people face this, and it might create some sort of depression or regret. What you need is courage, and the good news is you can cultivate it. How do people cope with distressing emotions? Essentially, in two ways: through reasoning or through suppression. Such methods treat emotions as states that must be overcome, but the truth is that none of them neither develop courage nor freeing from the grip of the maladaptive ones. If neither reasoning nor suppressing work whatsoever, what is the alternative? Emotional labelling.  By labelling your emotions, you recognise their existence. When you’re touched by a strong emotion, label it forthwith. Accept its presence and then move forward, regardless of how uncomfortable you might feel. The more you do it, the less frequent those feelings will arise. Mark Twain said: “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision. 

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