Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Learn to love your fear to achieve self-mastery #fear #faceyourfear #anxiety #selfmastery

2 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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A short dialogue from a YouTube video (created and uploaded by Josh Trent) arguing that embracing and "loving" one’s fear — treating it like a trusted internal alarm rather than an enemy — is a path to emotional self-mastery. Speaker A frames loving fear as analogous to loving a partner; Speaker B describes fear as an internal alarm that should be acknowledged and approached rather than given unchecked power.

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If you can learn how to love your fear just like you would love your wife or love your boyfriend or girlfriend, then that's actually how you achieve mastery through your emotions, is by learning how to love your fear.
It's just an internal alarm system that your body sets off. So when we give it more power and we give it more credence, when we stamp that label in our souls, then it begins to dictate all of our actions. Is that going to be hard? Scary? Yes. But that's me heading straight into the fear. And eventually you become appreciative of the alarm, not scared of it or running from it. The alarms are a good thing, man.