Dealing with Fear and Making Life Changes

Making life changes can be an uphill battle. Not because of the
strategies or the economy, but because of the brain’s relationship to
survival.

brain: the lizard (survival) brain, the emotional brain, and the
thinking/rational brain. While it may sound like we have three brains,
we don’t. These are just three major systems that have smaller
subparts; like the amygdale, or hippocampus. Most of the time the
lizard brain, and emotional brain talk behind the logical brain’s back
for survival sake, “that guy seems sketchy, walk on the other side of
the street!” We may not logically think about why we’re crossing the
street, we’re simply responding based on millions of little data
points we’re not even conscious of.”

learning new skills, trying new things, and developing new
relationships, because our brain rapidly filters our sensations, and
puts it in buckets related to survival… based on our emotional state
and what it knows we’ve already been able to survive, “Hey, you’ve
never survived implementing a marketing strategy! Wouldn’t you like to
watch Dr. Who instead?? We know we can survive that!” So, even though
I know reaching out to people who’ve already asked for my services
won’t kill me… there is a whole fear/resistance process to get through
before that phone call.

to really hurt. We have to convince our unconscious that we’re going
to survive the new behavior. This is why getting support and starting
to take small actionable steps makes a huge difference. We develop
strategies of taking action while dealing with fear. Then, it becomes
easier to keep moving forward, instead of continuing to be trapped by
the fear of what might be.

Good luck!
Kaye Porter CHT, CNLP
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