I have to admit it, even though I am generally going about my life full of gratitude and joy, there are days when I’m just not feeling so sure.
And I know from experience, that all I have to do is just begin to doubt, just a little bit, and my old nemesis, fear, that absolutely paralyzing, stop you in your tracks, “FEAR GREMLIN” creeps right in.
What does my Fear Gremlin look like?
He looks like one of those evil gremlin characters from the movie that mohawk guy with the black streaks in his head! (Not the cute, little green one).
What keeps him alive?
Despite tons of positive energy in my life, I still feed him a little bit every day. And boy is that a hard habit to break!
What does he say to me?
He tells me “I can’t do it”, “I’m not good enough”, “I don’t know enough”, “I always give up”, “people won’t like me”, or “they won’t trust me, or “they’ll never be a part of what I‘m doing”, and “they’ll REJECT me!”.
YUCK! And that feels awful!
But the day I saw that vision of my fear gremlin, I saw a picture that now makes me smile. Happily, I penciled that vision into existence in my journal, and named him “Fearsome Freddie”.
That black haired, evil-eyed, white-streaked, snarly creature wasn’t so scary after all! What a shift! Fearsome Freddie is a cartoon character and a funny one at that!
I believe that my tendency toward negative self-talk will never go away completely, but at least now I can laugh at myself, toss “Fearsome Freddie” a ball of affirmations to play with, and move on.
What does your fear look like?