{"id":2060,"date":"2014-10-27T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T11:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxboroarttherapy.com\/?p=2060"},"modified":"2016-01-04T17:27:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T17:27:49","slug":"let-go-of-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindfulartstudio.com\/let-go-of-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"When Do You Let Fear Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mindfulartstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Let-Fear-Go.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2061\" src=\"https:\/\/mindfulartstudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Let-Fear-Go-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Let Fear Go\" width=\"606\" height=\"909\" \/><\/a>By: Amy Maricle<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A\u00a0lot of us are scared.<\/strong> Worried. Anxious.<\/p>\n<p>We have good reason; there is a lot to be anxious about.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of things scare me. Terrorism, serious illness, growing old and losing the people I love. I try to remind myself that it&#8217;s\u00a0the juxtaposition of fear and courage, despair and hope, desperation and joy that\u00a0gives life it&#8217;s spark. We need the depth to feel the heights, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s hard to co-exist peacefully\u00a0with fear and anxiety though.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I&#8217;d like to pretend fear and anxiety\u00a0don&#8217;t exist, deny them, or grind them into dust under my running sneakers. But I can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>A man I knew once told me a story. It began like this:\u00a0&#8220;You know nothing scares me, but\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was astounded by his lack of insight. Was he kidding himself into thinking he was fearless, or did he think he was fooling me into thinking he was?<strong> I don&#8217;t believe in fearlessness.<\/strong> I&#8217;ve never met anyone like that, have you?. 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