The Power Of Fear
I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Fear slips into your mind like a spy… reason is laid low….Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you….You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don’t, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
—Yann Martel
An Excerpt From The Book
We do feel this fear in our bones. It slows us to a crawl and it eventually stops us from movement—but by the time we are slowed to a crawl it has become our expected reality. And so no one is alarmed at our turtle pace, including ourselves. All kinds of explanations are given—she is a quiet girl, he is shy, she likes to read, he is a loner, he’s in his fifties, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks—but very few explanations point to the power of fear.
Order The Power Of Fear Today!Bob Beverley is a psychotherapist in Pawling, NY. His is the author of How to Be a Christian and Still Be Sane and The Secret Behind the Secret Law of Attraction (with Kevin Hogan, Dave Lakhani and Blair Warren.) Bob would be delighted to hear your feedback about The Power of Fear. Please contact him at Bob@FindWisdomNow.com.