The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Why fear may be blocking your primal path and how to overcome it?

Getting healthy. It's an admirable, enviable endeavor, you think.

In fact, it's what you've wanted, maybe desperately, for a long time.

And then you come across primal.

You've been convinced for a while now that it's a good guideline for how to live.

Reading the blog, maybe trying

a primal-friendly meal now and then. You've even read a book or cookbook or two. You have the knowledge,

you have the interest. Maybe you even feel a fire lit under you by a recent diagnosis,

an additional medication, or an added 10, 20, or 50 pounds. The next logical step

would be to put a primal plan into action, right? Take it on, make it happen, change your life for

the inconceivable better. But for many of us, that's where fear rushes in to gum up the whole

process.

It isn't that fear is an unnatural emotion. It's one of the key primal instincts.

What, after all, could be more steeped in clear evolutionary purpose?

Fear is what's enabled survival for eons. But no one is facing down a large fanged predator here as they consider retooling their

health. There's no inner-band skirmishes to charge into, no earthquakes convulsing beneath one's

feet. There's not even a precipitous cliff, at least not a literal one. Regardless of the evidence

and all the positives to be gained, for some of us fear is still the loudest

voice in the room, and it can immobilize us. It can keep us locked in a way of life and a condition

of health in which we have no real interest in staying. Sure, sometimes there are genuine logistical

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