How to Manage Fear and Uncertainty: Featuring Video by Steven Washington
We can all agree that fear exists. Depending on our previous exposure to fear and uncertainty or to the beliefs, attitudes, and depth of the self-care practices we have embraced, the idea of managing fear and uncertainty may be a relatively new concept for us. We may meet fear with awe and trepidation or perhaps it may impact us harder and drain us of our life force and personal energy.
The energy behind fear and uncertainty is the idea of loss of control:
“I don’t know why,”
“I don’t know how,”
“I don’t know who I can trust to help me,”
“I don’t know what to do.”
Whether it is a relationship we are in that feels out of control, a hurricane whose course is constantly changing, or now the face of this pandemic that is impacting each and every one of our lives, where in all of this do we find our breath, our center? While I intend to write more on this subject, I felt strongly to first focus on a practice. We need a variety of tools in our self-care toolbox to choose from in order to help us ground into ourselves with more peace, and thereby access these answers for ourselves.