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Contact Us. When you tackle one, all of them are tackled. What a crazy hippie. They would rather sit in the stands than risk sitting on the varsity bench. Instead of using the opportunity of life to live well, people put themselves in a cage and live a stagnant, mediocre life.
It sounds horrible, but understand that this fear — like any other — can be overcome. To overcome fear of change you need to look inside yourself. You need to acknowledge your fears and dedicate yourself to tackling them one by one. I used to suffer from all of these fears, but by putting one foot in front of the other, I overcame them. Start slowly.
Celebrate every small victory. Eventually, you will stand above your fears, and start living a better life. Do you have a story to share? Possibility Change is a community of people who help each other by sharing what we've been through and what we've learned.
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Online therapy offers effective, confidential, and convenient access to a licensed therapist at a low cost when compared to face-to-face services. Click here to learn more about Online Therapy. I experienced, and probably still experiencing, most of these fear. But sometimes, you have to suck it up and move forward. I have found that this type of behavior can and will throw stones in your progress.
I like to think once you have thought of it in your mind you are already on your way, once you have said it aloud you have set things in motion. How you word or voice your thoughts is very powerful, be careful not to plant seeds of thought you do not desire to reap later. My biggest fear to overcome is sucsess. Now that I see I can be much better I have been crippled by this mantra of never changing. Never wanting the attention, but still feeling I deserve some credit for my efforts.
Knowing these common fears really helps me. Nice Article. This article removed my fear. After reading this article i started celebrating my smallest victory by giving treat to my friends. I have been successful in so many aspects of life and have accomplished much. Essentially, you attack the possibility of change because you think you know better than everyone else and have the friends to back you up. Sometimes change involves a significant loss, and our brains hate loss. When we invest ourselves emotionally in anything, it becomes harder to change because we don't want to lose all the time and effort we already exerted.
As a result, we have a hard time letting go of a project we know deep down will fail. We also struggle to end doomed relationships because we're terrible at accepting the whole thing was for naught.
In reality, time isn't wasted but our brains like to see the entire time as a loss rather than just a part of the inevitable conclusion. If you've ever played a game of Farmville and struggled to stop, you know exactly how this feels. A study PDF by psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky found that our brain's desire for loss aversion almost always altered our choices even when our other choice was identical.
David McRaney explains the study:. Imagine the apocalypse is upon you. Some terrible disease was unleashed in an attempt to cure male pattern baldness. The human population has been reduced to people.
Everyone is likely to die without help. As one of the last survivors you meet a scientist who believes he has found a cure, but he isn't sure. He has two versions and can't bear to choose between them. His scientific estimates are exact, but he leaves the choice up to you. Cure A is guaranteed to save exactly people.
The fate of hairlines and future generations is in your hands. Which do you pick? Ok, mark your answer and let's reimagine the scenario. Same setup, everyone is going to die without a cure, but this time if you use Cure C it is certain exactly people will die. Which one? Most people chose Cure A in the first scenario and Cure D in the second, but both situations presented were actually the same with different framing. The results showed how quickly we flock to the option that minimizes loss—the one with the least perceived change.
Because we're so opposed to inciting change, logic can go right out the window. Coping with change isn't that hard. You can't change how your brain works, but you can use its quirks to your advantage.
Basically, your brain likes information it knows and understands and doesn't like what it doesn't know. If your brain experiences enough change in a variety of ways, it'll allow you to operate with the understanding that change is something you can survive and even benefit from. You won't fear it so much because the information stored in your head provides evidence that fear is unnecessary. Of course, getting to this point is easier said than done.
Roger suggests a few methods when learning to cope with and better-handle changing circumstances. To start, you have to accept that stress is an inevitable part of the process:. Rewriting your own "source code" is supposed to be hard. It'll get harder to rewrite over time but if you don't do it, you'll eventually be left with a bunch of useless code that can't run on current platforms.
Give yourself permission to feel the change-related distress and all of the associated emotions that come along with it. It sucks but not allowing yourself to process those emotions will prevent you from moving forward. If you don't process them you'll have to isolate yourself from all things that represent the "distressing" change just to be able to function.
Roger suggests looking at our lives as an operating system with software titles.
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