Courage is often confused with lack of fear, as if courage signifies fearless action. But courage can only exist with fear as its offerer. You see, how could you experience bravery if you are not fearful in the first place?
Without that fear from which to stimulate courage, action could never be deemed courageous, just action. So, action inspired by courage is simply action inspired by an allowance of fear. Fear is the true trigger for courage, not bravery. Bravery is merely an action of allowance of fear.
So the next time you feel fearful within, perhaps you could reframe your fear, not to be your hindrance, not to be your cowardice, but to be your opportunity to bravely and courageously allow what is.
Any time we are allowing within of fear — not pretending it is not there, not attempting to get rid of it, not prompting reaction to it, just honouring it within as a presence of energy — we are stimulating its opposite of courage.
You see, true courage is not the opposite of cowardice but fear. Cowardice is the denial of an energy of fear, it is the reaction to the energy of fear, it is the unfounded belief that fear must be responded to at all times, when in actual fact, it’s not that fear must be responded to at all times, simply allowed.
When we allow our fear — and here I am really referring to mind-based fear, not instinctual fear stimulated by necessity — we can allow it to flow through us and not stick to us. We can allow it to BE but not to DO; in other words, we can act with allowance of our fear, rather than react as a result of our fear.
When we are free from reaction to our fear and we are just present with it within, then we respond with courage at all times, for courage is nothing other than allowance of fear within. Courage is not an absence or a denial or a removal of fear, it is simply the allowance of what is at all times.
Thank you.
Kirsty
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