THE CAVE YOU FEAR TO ENTER HOLDS THE TREASURE YOU SEEK
Many of us go through life putting things off and never following our dreams until one day it’s too late!
The famous quote from Joseph Campbell, summarises this so well, ‘The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek’. The caves are the gateway to our dreams, they are calling us. The fear stopping us from entering the caves is made up of limiting beliefs that stop us changing and growing.
You never took that job, you never set that business up, you never went travelling, you never got into shape, and so on.
Facing your fears, or tackling challenges that might seem daunting, can lead to discovering something meaningful, valuable, or rewarding. The cave represents the intimidating or unknown aspects of life, while the treasure symbolises the potential benefits or personal growth that can be achieved by confronting those fears or challenges.
WHAT CAN YOU DO? – FACE YOUR FEARS
Make a list of the caves you would like to enter. Next to each one list the fears or beliefs that are stopping you entering. By naming these fears or limiting beliefs holding you back, you take away their power and can take the first steps into the cave towards the new you and the treasure!
Once you have the awareness of the ‘monster’, you can start dealing with the ‘monster’ because you can see it for what it really is. This is exactly what happened to me when I decided to stop drinking alcohol. All the fears of what would happen if I stopped drinking disappeared as soon as I started to see the ‘monster’ without its clothes on, naked and stripped down – it is just poison.
By entering the cave you start to explore beyond your comfort zone, which can lead to realising your dreams.
The Tibetan Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön says that fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape to. This clarity is a matter of becoming intimate with fear and, rather than treating it as a problem to be solved, using it as a tool with which to dismantle all our familiar structures of being, ‘a complete undoing of old ways of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and thinking.’ Bravery is not the absence of fear but the intimacy with fear.
You can find out more about how to deal with fear and change your limiting beliefs in my coaching sessions and courses as well as my book, Walking Back To Happiness: The Secret To Alcohol-Free Living & Well-Being, which shows you how I changed my story and found happiness and well-being and how you can to. Packed with over 70 exercises or steps you can take to improve your well-being and happiness, it’s a blueprint of how to live your best life! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nigel-Jones/e/B0B7RP6LH6/
ENTER THE CAVE…
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