12 Ways to unleash our Courage!!

We are not human beings having spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having human experience

• Reinforce in your being the conviction that you are a fearless spirit in the physical body

"Detach yourself from the fear of the body and the mind, changing instead to the fearlessness of the spirit" (Ching)

"It is in your power to discover that who you really are had nothing to fear, but that you make yourself fearful each time you look outside of yourself for some power to make you fearless." (Vernon Howard) (Your Faith in GOD that's inside you makes you fearless of anything outside of yourself!)

• JUST DO IT! avoid over-analysing!... Valour grows by daring fear by holding back (Publilius Syrus)


• Give yourself permission to be courageous. Avoid giving others permission to make you feel fearful

"No one can make you feel inferior without your permission"( Eleanor Roosevelt)

"Starting now ,never again, permit hard or disapproving facial expressions to intimidate you." (Vernon Howard)

• Reinforce the belief that the only power others have over you is the power you give them.


• Reinforce the belief that the only power anything has over you is the power you give it. Any experience or event will effect your life and your personality as much as you permit it!


• Apply the "Calmness linked to fear" technique. This is done by imagining your worst fears and visualizing yourself facing them calmly


• Constantly work on increasing your self-awareness!

"When two people meet the prize always goes to the one with the most self-insight. He will be calmer, more confident and more courageous!" (Vernon Howard)

• Make a list of the following and review regularly to serve as empowering reminders

1. Your past successes and victories


2. risks you have taken in the past


3. Your past courageous acts.

• Surround yourself with the people who help you uplift your spirit. Avoid associating with those who like to bring you down or belittle your ideas.

"To succeed in life you have to forget about most people. If you want to rise to the top, you have to disregard the opinions, reactions and warnings of others" (Ken Roberts)

• Get used to dealing with the unexpected

"The number one characteristic of students who later became head of companies is the ability to withstand uncertainty" (David A. Thomas)

"It is the individual's ability to deal with the unexpected that characterises the difference between success and failure" (Ross Perot)

• Simply decide that fear will not get in your way no matter what! Act in spite of fear!


• Apply "I have nothing to prove". Be your natural self!.. keep your goal "express" not "impress"!

"Your true nature, never needs to anxiously prove yourself to others, but lives in calm command, like a popular king!"( Vernon Howard)

" The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody else is trying to be somebody else" (Andrew Jensen)

"The time spent in trying to impress others, they could spent in doing things by which others would be impressed" (Frank Romer)

"Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, If you forget yourself, forget about the impression you are trying to make"( Dale Carnegie)

"Like dark clouds that cover the sun's light from shining through, so it is with fears that cover the natural light of your inner courage from shining through." (Gabriel D.)

(Content taken from the book "Courage and Confidence Tips" by Ron Balagot)