There is one antidote for fear.

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Regardless of the kind of fear.

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Whether personal or existential, we all have one thing to combat fear.

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And that is courage.

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It may seem obvious, even trite.

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Yet as the opposite and complementary aspect of fear, courage is also always here.

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Even when we don't feel like we have courage, it is there.

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So how do we find our courage?

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Courage can always be found in our heart.

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For our heart holds our deepest intelligence and our deepest wisdom.

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Our heart is the repository of the best of ourselves.

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Yet to access it is not always easy.

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It can be elusive and ambiguous.

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We can grasp for it and find nothing there to hold on to.

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Because perhaps we are not truly in our heart.

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Maybe we are working too hard on our own and we forget that there are other people to help us.

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For one of the truest ways to find ourselves solidly in our hearts is through intimacy with another person.

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It does not have to romantic intimacy.

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Only an intimacy of connection and presence.

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To truly be seen by another person.

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To feel the support of another without them trying to fix anything.

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For when we are witnessed by someone who holds a space of compassion for us, we feel safe.

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And in that moment of safety we able to access the real depths of our heart.

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Accessing that level of who we truly are deep inside, leads us to be more courageous.

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To have the courage to face our fears.

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And have the courage to face ourselves in the mirror even when we do not like what we see.

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Courage comes from our ability to see our life through our heart.

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To have more compassion for ourselves and then others.

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We know this to be true.

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Yet that doesn't make it any easier.

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For to travel the path to our heart takes courage.

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Which is what we were looking for the whole time.

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So regardless of the type of fear, perhaps we already have the courage we are looking for.

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So where are you already being courageous that you are not recognizing?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant