It occurs to me today, after three recent scary challenges, that in advance of a given situation, we believe our fears are some great, big nasty that will get us in the moment of the challenge. Something so awful we'll be utterly consumed & it'll be an enduring agony of humiliation and pain. But my experience has been that actually, there's no fear in the place we presently occupy, we see it in some future place. But as we 'do' the challenging thing, the actual moment of fear is just that - a fleeting moment, and then we're doing the thing we feared but the scary's aren't there at all. For me this has collapsed fear down into a moment. The moment just as you jump from the plane, just as you enter the interview room etc.
I'm suddenly feeling much more empowered, seeing that it's only really a pin-prick moment of time that I actually feel 'arghhhhh'.
Does anyone else feel like this?