You know the answer to that, dabatross. Confidence is a choice. Every time your mind gravitates toward fear, it's an opportunity to alter your neural pathways. You need your mind to gravitate toward fear.
In order to overcome a fear of flying you need to go up in the air, if you want to face your intimacy issues you have to get into a relationship, and if you want to break an addiction to anxiety, your mind needs to send you fear thoughts. Every one of those fear thoughts is an opportunity to reprogram your brain.
Are you going to take the easy path? The familiar path? The path that perpetuates the fear cycle and leads you back into pain? Or are you going to refuse to indulge in the fear thought, stand up to it, empower yourself, and literally change your brain?
It's simply a matter of recognizing the fear thoughts, seeing them as an opportunity to alter the neural connections in your brain, and standing up for yourself. Rinse and repeat.
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