The 8 habits to know how to face your fears

These are several recommended habits if you are interested in learning to face your daily fears.

Fear is one of the most adaptive human emotions that exist, and throughout history it has served us to cope with threats and risks that arise both in the natural environment and in interaction with others.

However, there are many people today who live daily with limiting fears. live with limiting fears of all kinds on a daily basis.fears that prevent them from living the life they would like to live or from achieving their personal and professional goals.

These fears can be more or less real, such as the fear of losing one's job, of a family member's illness or of being rejected by one's partner, or less well founded, such as the fear of the dark, of certain animals or of flying in an airplane. In any case, if we do not learn to manage this emotion well, it can lead us to enter a vicious circle of avoidance and renunciation.

What are the main habits that help us to cope with fears?

If you want to overcome your fears in a successful way and you want to know the main habits to do it, keep on reading.; here you will be able to consult our specialized selection of the most useful habits that we can apply to face any type of fear.

1. Gradual exposure to fear

Exposing ourselves to the source of our fear is one of the most useful ways to face it, and for decades it has been one of the main techniques used by psychologists to treat all kinds of fears or phobias.

The exposure to the source of fear must be gradual and go from the easiest and simplest approaches to the most complex ones.The person should not be overly affected at the psychological level.

In fact, if a person has social phobia or extreme agoraphobia, for example, he can begin to overcome his fears by going to psychotherapy and going through a program of exposure to what generates that emotional reaction (with professional support) by leaving the house until he reaches the door of the street and the next day until he turns the first corner of a building, and so on.

2. Communicating our fears

A good way to overcome any kind of problem or psychological discomfort that we may have is to communicate our situation to family or friends around us who care about us..

Verbalizing one's fears and worries that haunt us to another person who offers unconditional listening and understanding has a very positive effect on the person who suffers.

Similarly, by communicating our fears to another person we can get advice or solutions that we did not have before, which can help us to overcome the problem and, in general, will help us to feel more supported and therefore better equipped to face these irrational fears.

3. Keep an emotion diary

As with verbal expression, written expression is another way for people to communicate what we feel at any given moment, and it is an activity that is highly valued for its therapeutic usefulness, as it is effective in developing self-awareness and self-esteem. it is effective in developing self-knowledge and knowing how to distinguish and knowing how to distinguish between the emotions and feelings we usually feel, and understanding which experiences elicit them.

Writing a diary during the week about the emotions we experience at each moment is one of the best ways to get to know ourselves and understand our fears, by putting in order our ideas about what is going on in our heads.

4. Healthy habits

Living a healthy life is one of the best strategies we can follow to increase our self-esteem and gradually lose those irrational fears that condition our daily life. If we are physically well, we also feel less vulnerable psychologically..

There are a variety of habits that increase both our physical and mental health, among the most important we can find: weekly exercise, sleeping enough hours, eating healthy and maintaining an active affective-social life.

5. Identify maladaptive thoughts

Another strategy we can follow to learn how to successfully face our fears is to detect those trap-thoughts that we often use as an excuse to face any kind of fear. trap-thoughts that we often use as an excuse to face any kind of fear..

Knowing the intellectual mechanisms that prevent us from overcoming our fears is the first step to start the path that will allow us to face them successfully.

6. Acquire relaxation techniques

Both medicine and psychology have demonstrated the usefulness of the regular practice of relaxation techniques such as meditation. relaxation techniques such as meditation or diaphragmatic respiration in overcoming all kinds of psychological problems and alterations.

The integration in our daily life of this type of techniques can help us to reduce the levels of stress, anxiety or fear generated by any given source, and it also helps us to focus our attention, to know ourselves better and to increase the quality of life.

7. To know ourselves

Self-knowledge is essential when it comes to overcoming a problem in any area of a person's life, and as indicated above, there are many strategies we can follow to improve our self-knowledge.

In addition to meditating, practicing relaxation techniques, communicating with others or writing a diary, there are other exercises to get to know ourselves better, such as establishing our strengths and weaknesses or talking to friends and family about our strengths and weaknesses.

8. Seeing a psychologist

Psychology professionals recommend consulting a psychologist when a person's situation is untenable and their fear prevents them from living normally on a day-to-day basis.

A psychologist specialized in fears or phobias is the best professional to help us overcome our fear.He/she is the one who knows exactly what strategies we should follow to achieve it and which techniques are the most recommendable for our case.

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