Where fears came from ?

Almost everyone in today’s world understands the necessity of balancing their personal life with their business life. This balance if oftentimes fearful and chaotic. Frequently, people think the only way a person can accomplish all of their goals is to stay constantly busy. This is not Superhero thinking or living.

When fears hold a person back from succeeding in all of their aspirations they lack balance. This fear-based imbalance restricts a person from achieving the greatness that they are capable of and most oftentimes people don’t realize how this occurs.

Fears can come in many forms and...
at times can be detrimental to a person’s well being. The two types of fears that all other fears fall under are internal and external. These fears present themselves in very different ways and can have very different effects on a person’s state of mind. Understanding both of these fears and the reasons behind them is the only way to overcome them.

External fears are the most easily understandable and recognizable. These fears are related to things that exist outside of a person and bring with them a natural feeling of dread and anxiety.

Just because it is natural to have these feelings, however, doesn’t mean it is necessary or even common to experience them. The fear of spiders and snakes are two of the most common external fears a person could have.

External fears are very easy to recognize due to the fact that they are triggered by a clearly identifiable outside source. This trigger is always related to the fear itself.

Referring back to the fear of spiders, the sighting of a spider or a soft creeping feeling going across a person’s arm can cause the feeling of anxiety and dread to appear. These fears usually only occur when a person encounters or believes they are encountering the object of their fear.

External fears can affect a person in more than just their personal life. A business owner may refuse to expand their business if it requires that they work on the seventieth floor of a high-rise building when they are fearful of heights. A person may refuse to attend an important international business meeting if it is occurring in a part of the world that they fear is unsafe. Regardless of what a person’s specific external fears are, they will always negatively affect that person in some area of their life holding them apart from experiencing their superhero inside.

As stated earlier, it is often easy to identify the source of an external fear. These fears are often caused by something that a person has seen or experienced at some point in their life. Falling from a tree house as a child could easily cause a fear of heights, and even seeing excessive crime in a certain area of town can cause a person to experience fear when under similar circumstances. Regardless of the external fear, it usually exists solely as a reminder of something bad that has already happened.

Internal fears are much harder to define and explain than external fears. An internal fear is one that exists solely within a person’s own mind. They too are often triggered by something in the external world, but the external world is not their basis for existence. Since this type of fear doesn’t necessarily stem from a specific event in a person’s life, it can be difficult to identify the main ca use for the fear.

Internal fears can manifest as a fear of rejection, failure, success and several other inner issues. A person could fear asking for money to start a business because they think that they may be turned down, but another person may fear the same thing based solely on the fact that they fear the responsibility and what they have to take on if they succeed.

This same fear of asking for a business loan could stem from the fear that a person will fail once they are given the opportunity. Regardless of the reason a person is hesitant to ask for the capital, it always stems from an internal fear.

Internal fears can be caused by a number of factors that are usually related to emotion. A person may develop an irrational fear of rejection after being left by a partner. Another person may develop a fear of failure after spending a lifetime with an overbearing father who demanded perfection in every aspect of his life. These fears can prevent a person from taking the risks necessary to realize their dreams of success and let the Superhero with them soar.

Often internal fears are very difficult to overcome. Unfortunately for anyone who has a fear, sometimes the only way to overcome it is to face it head-on. This may sound very near impossible to many, but it only takes a moment of looking past this fear for a person to accomplish what they want. Focusing on the end results and not the fear can be the beginning of achieving a Superhero lifestyle.