Getting rid of the Boogey man

Have you experienced fear lately? If you're going after your dreams then I'm sure you've faced some fears, maybe even frozen in your tracks because of them.

I remember lying in my bed when I was little and being afraid. I was already a little kid who was afraid of the dark and I had an older brother and his friends with great imaginations who believed in helping those fears grow.

Needless to say, I went to bed many nights scared, and I knew that if I got out of bed to get my mom the thing under the bed would get me. I knew it was lurking there and I knew how it worked. It couldn't really come out, but rather it had to stick it's nasty arm out to grab me by the ankles. So that meant I could stand on my bed and make a jump for the door and hope I landed far enough away so as to be out of reach.

The other option was to hide completely under the covers because nothing could get through my wonderful blanket. That wasn't so bad unless you like to breath. It gets really hot and stiffling under there after a while. The opportunity to get fresh air is pretty limited because that would cause a breech in my defenses and that thing could stick it's nasty hand up and reach me.

I can still remember lying there, terrified, and not doing anything. The longer I lied there, immobile, the greater the fear grew until I couldn't stand it anymore and I would get up and made the jump for the door. Amazingly, I made it to safety every single time. Not once did that monster manage to put even one scaly, nasty finger on me.

And I've had the same experience as an adult. When there is something scaring me I'll often times face it, examine it, do all the things "they" tell you to do...and I'm still scared. The longer I sit there, the more frightened I become. And every single time the solution has been action. Doing something that can move me past the fear is the only real solutions I've found.

Yes, I'll still examine it and run through all the logic and all the reasons that everything "should" be okay. And that can help somewhat. But the bottom line is that action makes it go away - and I like the fear to be gone. I don't just want the Boogey man to stay under the bed, I want him to GO AWAY! Action does that - it chases the Boogey man far away from me, and that feels good.