Most people run from fear and discomfort—but what if leaning into them was the key to the life you want? In this episode, I’m sharing a powerful psychological trick called the "Reversal of Desire." It’s a simple yet life-changing strategy to reframe fear, shrink anxiety, and take action with confidence. Listen now to learn how to rewire your brain and finally stop holding yourself back.
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Today, I'm going to be giving you a psychological strategy to overcome your fears and any anxiety that you might have about something coming up in the future.
It's quite simple and I'm going to go through the entire thing with you.
I'm going to show you how it works.
I'm going to give you examples of how you would use it as well.
And this is really important because the thing that I have found that holds holds people back more than anything else is that most people in this world run from fear and discomfort.
If you're listening to this podcast, it's because you want to improve yourself.
And you know if you improve yourself, you will improve your life.
And one aspect of improving your life, one of the biggest aspects of you improving your life is you getting past your fears so that you can go and create the life that you want to, because the life that you want to is not inside of your comfort zone.
And so what if leaning into your fear rather than avoiding it was the secret?
Well, there's a psychological trick that's called the reversal of desire.
And it is a mental tool that turns the resistance that you have towards doing something.
Because you have a fear, you have an anxiety, you have a worry around it, it takes that and actually turns into something that could be empowering for you.
It could give you some motivation to actually start taking action.
And so it's basically rooted in the idea of cognitive reframing, in reframing your relationship with fear or discomfort.
So the reversal of desire helps us kind of approach challenges with instead of this feeling of dread or this feeling of fear or worry or anxiety, it allows us to approach challenges with a sense of eagerness rather than the dread.