Experience Fear, Build Confidence

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Fear serves a human function, much as many of us in Western culture may denounce it, diminish it, or otherwise dismiss it.  Instead of doing all of this, let's experience our fear as it is.  Sit with it, and feel it.  In the process, we may understand it better and learn from it.  

We practice T'ai Chi, we meditate quietly, we study and reflect on what we experience.  Neither inviting nor resisting distracting thoughts and disturbing feelings.  We see what we need to do vis-a-vis our fear, which may be nothing at all but which may also be something important.

In time, that fear works in our favor, it serves our purpose.  In time, it dissipates.