52 // Facing Your Fears
The Mindful Kind
Rachael Kable
4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2016
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Hello and welcome to episode 52 of The Mindful Kind podcast!
In this episode, discover how to use mindfulness to face your fears.
This is a gentle and kind approach to addressing fears- this is not an episode about feeling the fear and doing it anyway (at least, not at first!).
You'll discover a few of my own fears about snakes and public speaking (and more!) and how I've used mindfulness to face up to those things.
A few tips for facing your fears using mindfulness:
- Take small steps towards facing your fears and listen for when it becomes too much
- Urge surf to let go of irrational, fearful reactions
- Be aware of your self-talk and adjust it to suit you (know which thoughts help you and which ones don't!)
- Use your breath to reduce fear
- Have a plan for self-care and mindfulness after you've faced your fear. Be kind to yourself and try to decrease rumination.
And finally, please reach out for more help if you need it in facing your fears.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome to the mindful kind. |
| 0:07.5 | I'm your host, Rachel Cable, and I'm here to share insights into my mindfulness journey |
| 0:12.3 | and inspire you to create your own. |
| 0:14.9 | Each week, this podcast will bring fresh and exciting news about mindfulness, |
| 0:19.7 | from my personal experiences to useful tools and different |
| 0:23.6 | mindful techniques. |
| 0:32.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 52 of the Mindful Kind podcast. Today I'm talking about how we can use mindfulness to face our fears, both big and small. I'll be sharing quite a few personal stories which I really hope might show you different ways you could face your own fears or maybe feel inspired to make a few changes in your own life even if you do feel a bit |
| 0:57.2 | scared about those changes. Now I just want to explain a little more about the message of this |
| 1:02.7 | episode before we get into it. I've often heard the saying feel the fear and do it anyway. |
| 1:09.2 | That is not what this episode is about. I don't want you to |
| 1:14.3 | listen and then feel like you need to dive straight into doing something that really scares you or |
| 1:19.1 | makes you feel super uncomfortable. This episode is about gently and lovingly letting yourself |
| 1:25.6 | explore outside your comfort zone, to be kind with |
| 1:29.1 | yourself talk and to feel proud of yourself for taking little steps towards facing your fears. |
| 1:34.8 | I do believe in taking things slow at first and building up your resilience for facing fears |
| 1:40.4 | and maybe overcoming those fears. So with that said, I have a little story for you and I do |
| 1:47.2 | have a quick warning. If you're afraid of snakes, this story is probably going to make you feel |
| 1:52.5 | uncomfortable. So feel free to skip forward a few minutes or make sure you're feeling safe before you |
| 1:58.5 | listen. Okay, so I grew up on a farm in the country with lots of gardens, bushy areas and huge |
| 2:06.3 | open paddocks, some of which had a lot of long grass. |
| 2:11.0 | When I was 12 or 13 years old, I was walking across one of the paddocks with my little |
| 2:16.1 | sister and all of a sudden I felt something |
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