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Most of us also develop a vocabulary of fearful phrases, some exactly the same as those that we learned in childhood, others that we have picked up, adapted and created for ourselves in adult life. Fearful phrases create and reinforce fearful beliefs. At their extreme we use them to paralyse ourselves and render us inactive and impotent. Fear is a natural feeling, but fearful phrases stir us up into a terrified state that is unnatural and unhealthy.

The stress and anxiety caused by fearful thinking can lower the immune system, disrupt our natural ability to protect ourselves psychologically or mentally, raise our blood-pressure and impede our ability to enjoy the pleasures of life. The energy of fearful beliefs can even make us magnetic to the outcomes that we most wish to avoid. What we resist persists!

Here are some examples of the fearful phrases that many of us use:

‘You can’t trust anyone these days.’

‘I would be terrified of making a fool of myself.’

‘We live in a dangerous world.’

‘These are dangerous times.’

‘It is not safe to walk the streets any more.’

‘If the crooks don’t get you the government will.’

‘I’ll dry up in the middle of my exam and forget everything that

I’ve learned.’

‘What if I make a mistake?’

‘It is terrifying!’

‘What a nightmare!’

Like any other negative patterns, our fearful words and thoughts are just bad habits, and bad habits can easily be changed. We just need to be willing to change them.