Pain and Fear

Interesting read this morning:

Pain and Fear:

Both originate internally.

Pain can be viewed two ways:  

1. The body awakening and telling us that something is wrong; fix it.
2. You are getting better; pushing yourself and getting stronger/faster.

Either way, it is a tool that you can use to drive and motivate yourself to do more; improve your situation; or fix something.

Fear is a choice we make. We decide, based off of our experience and perceptions, whether to be afraid or not. More importantly, we choose how to use that fear.

Both Pain and Fear are internally driven tools that we have complete power of how to use them; discard them; or succumb to them.

Misconception: Most people think that something externally is the source of our pain or fear; that something or someone else has that power over us. Not true! We choose how to respond to external factors.

That is why one person can go fetal and freeze when someone is mean to them while another (the warrior) simply sees a challenge or an opportunity to put into practice skills they train in. Why one person is terrified of a thunderstorm and another stands in the rain enjoying the raw power of nature. It is a choice.