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Fear

St Mungo, Clifton Beach, Cape Town, South Africa

June 8, 1983



This essay, Fear, is the fifth in a group of twelve adapted from my thesis BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING:
  1. Keeping Your Word Means Making Happen What You Said Is Going To Happen
  2. Commitment And The Willingness To Have It All Work Out For Everyone
  3. Keeping Your Word Is A Black And White Issue
  4. Packing My Own Parachute
  5. Fear
  6. Commitment Creates The Space For Keeping Your Word To Happen
  7. Skydiving
  8. Workability
  9. Participation
  10. BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING
  11. Seeing Is Not Believing (Seeing Is Seeing And Believing Is Believing)
  12. Attention To Detail


Fear doesn't rule me. I don't suppress or ignore fear. The way I handle fear is by being afraid.

Because we regard fear as something we have to deal with, we don't just let it be so it becomes empowered to stop us. The appropriate way to deal with fear is to be with it, to choose to experience it, and to be afraid.

You let fear be and it lets you be.


This essay, Fear, recreates Observation 8: Fear of my thesis, BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING, which is available at

http://laurenceplatt.home.att.net/breakthrough

The essay BREAKTHROUGH SKYDIVING introduces the thesis.


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