Getting My Body Back Friday - Overcoming Fear of Going Out Into Public Places Because Of Your Weight

Do you avoid going out in public places because you're afraid that people might judge you because of your weight? Is your fear keeping you trapped from exploring new places because you don't want other people to see you because of your size?

It's time to free your mind and free yourself. People will always have an opinion whether you're skinny or fat, short or tall, dark skinned or light skinned or anything else you can think of that someone can have an opinion on. 

It is YOUR life and you must live it! How will you choose to live - in fear because of what other people think of you or in freedom, enjoying life like anybody else? What makes someone better than you? This is where you need to protect your head space and your heart space, silencing the outward voices that are trying to invade your life and allow the voice inside you to become louder.

How can you make this happen?

Let the beauty of who you are become your focal point and be confident in yourself. Develop this mindset each day and change the energy you're sending to your own body. When you go out into public places other people would feel your energy of confidence.

Here's a quote from Daily Word, Unity that I think will empower you to see yourself from a different perspective:

"NATURE

I am restored through my communion with nature.

Year-round, nature is the doorway to my restoration. Whether I am taking in the brisk winter air or the scent of spring, scouting out a summer picnic or hiking on a crisp fall afternoon, nature feeds my soul and restores my spirit.

I marvel at the sights, sounds and scents of each season, realizing that the same omniscient power that created such beauty also created me. I am no less amazing than the most spectacular sunset and no less magnificent than the rarest flower.

I look forward to moments alone in nature where I rediscover my oneness with God and the universe, gaining a new perspective, a quiet heart and a healthier outlook."

We never think of ourselves as being spectacular. When you see the awesome beauty of nature's mountainous regions don't you go ooh and aah in awe? What about the animals, the elegance of a giraffe? We shake our heads in amazement not realizing that the same power created us as well. 

Here's an exercise you can practice today - every time you look at yourself in mirror, find something about you to ooh and aah about. You are worth it! The more you do it the more value you will see in yourself. The more you can appreciate you, the louder the voice in you becomes and you will be less concerned of the opinions of others when you go out in public places.

Make the mind shift now and truly live!

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Getting My Body Back Friday - Overcoming Fear of Failure - Mindset #5

As a toddler, you were determined to walk and you were not willing to settle with just holding on to walking. You wanted to do more. You were determined to let go and walk without holding on. You wanted to run as well. You wanted to walk backwards even though your mother's heart was probably in her toes lol because she didn't want you to hurt yourself. 

Be determined to be the best at what dream you decide to follow and when you master one level, go for the next and the next. Reach for the stars and keep going until you discover more galaxies you never knew existed in your own life.

This brings us to Mindset #5 - Be determined to reach your goal 

Determination in the face of fear will penetrate any dark clouds that try to distort your path toward your goal. Determination has a way of giving you the courage to try once more, to get up even when you've fallen and lost your zeal. 

If you're struggling for some time to achieve your health goals and you're beginning to feel fear of failure because you've tried so many times without success, keep pressing forward. Get determined in your mind. Don't settle for repeating the same things over and over if you want to get different results. Try changing your strategy. Mix things up a bit. Try something new. Turn within to find what works for your body type. 

Some children before they actually begin to walk deviate from the status quo; they may push up on their hands with their bum in the air or some may drag themselves along on the bum - various methods to achieve the same results of walking.

What's your method to achieving your weight goal? Is it working? If not, add some variety, perhaps interchanging with some weight training or actually using your own body weight to add resistance to help build those muscles. 

Whatever method you choose, be determined to get the results you want and don't stop until you do.

Action Thursday - Fear of Failure - Developing the Mindsets to Overcoming Fear of Failure - Part 4

As a child when you learned to walk, you looked forward to each day with renewed energy. When you opened your eyes no one could keep you from trying again. You did not dwell on the past. You didn't allow yesterday's spill to hinder today's progress. It seemed as if you had forgotten all about falling on your butt. 

Here's Mindset #4 - Awake each day with renewed enthusiasm 

It’s time to let go of yesterday's failure because they do not define or determine tomorrow's success. They can only hinder you if you dwell on them and take your eyes off the prize, off your target. 

Use these action steps to generate enthusiasm. 

Action step #1 - Using Mindset #4 as an affirmation repeat with conviction, “I awake each day with renewed enthusiasm to achieve my goal. I release my fear from my past failures and I’m open to today’s successes.” 

Action step #2 – Focus on what you can do today that will bring you closer to your goal. What can you do differently than the other times that will better your chances of success? 

Action step #3 – What lessons did I learn from my previous mistakes. Look for the hidden gems in your last attempt. They’ve left clues for you to improve but you’ll only see them as you look, not with the eyes of failure, but with the mindset of enthusiasm to glean the invaluable lessons waiting for you to grasp.

Fear of Failure - Developing the Mindsets to Overcoming Fear of Failure - Part 3

When you're overtaken by fear of failure you may find yourself thinking that other people are better than you making it difficult for you to pursue your goal.

Let's look at Mindset #3 - I can succeed at anything just like anybody else

Each one of us went through the process of conception, development within the womb and then birth. We all started off on an equal plane. We may all have had different life experiences which influence our behaviours in many ways but none is better than the other. And just as other people have succeeded in what they set out to do, you too can succeed as well. 

Some may have seemed to have life easier than you. Or they may seem to have been presented with many opportunities that caused them to become successful. 

However, the energy of life flows through all of us and the universal powers are available for us all. You too can access this power to work on your behalf if you choose to release fear from your life. As long as you continue to believe that you can succeed and that you can and will achieve your goals, you will. 

Whatever you need to help you move forward towards a successful outcome will come to your aid. Be willing to face the fear. Don't cover it up. Don't pretend to ignore it. Acknowledge your fear but at the same time be determined to press forward through the shadow of fear toward your goal and you'll find that the fear that at first which seemed to grip you will lose its hold on you.

Tomorrow we'll look at Mindset #4.

Overcoming Fear: Take the Limits Off and Free Yourself

Because of fear, we are limited in our thinking and therefore limited in our experiences. Take the limits off your mind and free yourself. If you ever allow yourself to feel all the desires of your heart without the inhibition of fear or limiting beliefs, you'll find that your imagination can carry you to the far end of the globe and go places beyond your current location. Did you know that whatever you imagine you can experience?

Nothing is too big for you to experience. If you can imagine it, it is already in existence in the unseen world. You cannot imagine what does not already exist. And because of this fact you can have what you desire if you only take the limits off.

Strategy #1

Shift your thinking

The way you think, and therefore your perspective, affects your experiences. When you're afraid, you feel fear because of what you're thinking - the anticipation of what you don't want to happen. You're not experiencing the unwanted experience at that current moment in your reality. Therefore, if you shift your imagination from seeing the negative experience onto the outcome you do desire, you'll begin to immediately feel a shift in your emotions and ultimately your experience changes.

Strategy #2

Visualization

Use visualization to put you into a positive energy vibration. Whatever you focus on will expand. If you focus on fear, fear will expand. If you focus on the outcome you desire, that will expand as well and move you the desired results.

Strategy #3

Get your emotions involved

It's one thing to shift your thinking and use visualization, but the real energizer comes from adding the emotional connection. Get your emotions involved and really feel what you desire the outcome to be. Look within to your heart and choose to allow yourself to feel the emotions of having the desired outcome materialized. Don't allow limitations to short-circuit your results.

Strategy #4

Believe and act

If you believe and accept that you can have the thing you've imagined then you must act on that belief. You've heard it said, "Act is if." Act as you would if you'd already possess the thing you wish you had. Take the necessary action steps that you would take if you were already experiencing your desire. This will put a knockout punch to your fear and send it packing and at the same time empowering you to free yourself from all that's entangling and holding you back.

You're an unlimited being. Walk in the power and strength of this unbounded way of life. Practice over and over until it becomes a habitual way of living.

Overcoming Fear: 5 Steps to Overcoming Fear

Fear will keep you paralyzed and hold you hostage to your 'comfort zone'. It will not allow you to realize your dream or let you taste freedom. Because of fear, many procrastinate before deciding to take the necessary steps to move forward to achieving their dreams. It may come out in words like, "I'll do it tomorrow, or next week." Then, because it's been pushed back so much, it becomes forgotten.

The following steps will guide you on your journey to overcoming fear:

Step #1 - Decision

Make a bold firm decision that you will have your desire regardless of what you face. When you make a decision you have a focal point to direct your attention.

Step #2 - Have an inner knowing

You have all that you need to get to the next level even if you are not consciously aware of it at the moment. Know that the help you need will come to you. Believe that help is already here even though you may not see it physically. It will manifest itself at the right time.

Step #3 - Remain focused on the final outcome

Fear comes when we focus on all the things that could go wrong. But you gain confidence when you focus on the results you desire. If you decide to drive to the store and begin to think about all the things that could go wrong on the way there, you'll probably never leave your home. But when you focus on getting to the store and know that all will be well, confidence will be your focus and not your fear.

Step #4 - Take a deep breath and relax

Release the tension and allow your faith, your belief that you will have your desire, to arise. Shift your mind from fear of the unknown and look within to the Source of your strength. Release the negative energy by taking a deep breath in and exhale all the tension that keeps you paralyzed from moving forward.

Step #5 - Move forward

We fear the unknown, therefore doing that which you fear will dissolve the unknown and you'll put those fears to rest and build confidence. As you face the fear and do what you decided that you will do, fear will begin to fall away and each step forward will let your confidence rise higher and higher.

What steps do you take to overcome fear?

Overcoming Fear: What is fear?

Fear is the anticipation of something terrible happening in the future. Whether it's one second, five minutes or five years, fear arises in the mind and is always because of something you don't what to occur. Think back of a time when you were afraid, see if the fear was because of what you were experiencing at the moment or as a result of the thing you didn't want to happen. You'll see that the latter is true.

Fear is a learnt behaviour coming out of our personal experiences and conditioning. We were taught what we should fear - fear of others ridiculing us; not measuring up to the 'standards' of others, not falling in line with what is called 'the norm'. Many of our fears originate from our childhood - fear of not getting the correct answer in class or being bullied in school etc.

Many of these behaviours have become embedded and deep-rooted within us and were never addressed. As a result, we grew into adulthood with these same fears controlling our lives and hindering us from moving forward, exploring life and living our dreams. Some in very subtle ways being justified as being cautious, others more blaring that cause us to shrink within and suppress what we truly desire and opt to remain in the 'comfort zone' as to not face the unknown.

As we come into the inner awareness of our true identity, as we enter in to the light of truth, fear falls away as darkness dissipates when the light is turned on in a room. We do not have within us the Spirit of fear but our origin comes from the Source power of love which, when we open our lives, will flow in and through us, producing the fruit of a bold and confident mind. We'll begin to understand that we have within us all we need to turn our lives around, to control our environment and decide what comes into our lives because of what we allow to remain and grow in our hearts, in our thoughts.

When we listen to the voice within, the Source of our strength, we gain confidence to overcome all the external arrows of fear that try to penetrate our armour of faith to poison and shake us down and move us from our power.

Begin to make it your habit to connect with and rely on the advice of the inner Wisdom of the Spirit to lead you through the path that is right for you in spite of what fears may try to impose on you.

What fears are holding you back?