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Discover Your Fear Style

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When conversing with others, do you lose your focus on the conversation because you’re concerned about how others are perceiving you?
2. yes Are you aware of bodily sensation when you’re in social situations, such as your heart racing or your stomach churning?
3. yes Do other people often describe you as “too intense”?
4. yes Do you easily get alarmed over a possible problem?
5. yes Do you have difficulty saying “no” to people if they ask you for something?
6. yes Do you tend to give other people’s needs priority over your own?
7. yes Do you tend to be sarcastic or ridicule people rather than speak directly with them about what’s bothering you?
8. yes Do you sometimes think that beneath your anger, you store a lot of fear?
9. yes Do you tend to orchestrate other people’s lives, making sure that everyone is doing things they way they are “supposed” to be done?
10. yes Do you hate when something unpredictable occurs?

If you answered "yup, that’s frequently me”, to any of these questions, you probably know that fear is too much a part of the fabric of your life. To discover your fear style, read on!

If you answered Yes to
Questions 1 & 2: your fear style is Shyness
   
[read Ideas for the Shy Person >>click here]

Questions 3 & 4: your fear style is Hypervigilant
   
[read Ideas for the Hypervigilant Person >>click here]

Questions 5 & 6: your fear style is Compliant
   
[read Ideas for the Compliant Person >>click here]

Questions 7 & 8: your fear style is Machismo
   
[read Ideas for the Macho Person >>click here]

Questions 9 & 10: your fear style is Controlling
   
[read Ideas for the Controlling Person >>click here]

A Brief Summary of How Your Fear is Manifested

  • Shy Fear Style has a timid mind, a silent voice, restricted actions, a still body, and reserved relationships.
  • Hyper vigilant Fear Style has an alarmed mind, a hysterical voice, agitated actions, a hyperactive body and frenzied relationships.
  • Compliant Fear Style has an unsure mind, a hesitant voice, yielding actions, a cautious body, deferential relationships.
  • Machismo Fear Style has an inflexible mind, a harsh voice, oppositional actions, a stiff body, and unbending relationships.
  • Controlling Fear Style has a critical mind, a demanding voice, driven actions, an intense body, and domineering relationships.

LEARN HOW TO CHANGE THE PATTERN

Master Your Fears explores the five fearful lifestyles: shy, hyper vigilant, compliant, macho, and controlling. It shows readers how their style affects them personally and professionally as well as how fear influences their thoughts, words, actions, body and relationships.

This innovative book addresses many types of fear from a specific worry, to a fear of intimacy, to that indefinable fear that holds people back from success and getting what they want and deserve.

Once you understand how fear affects how you live your life, it’s time for the eight-step change program.. This program provides illuminating insights as well as creative skills and strategies to empower you to live your life free from maladaptive fear.

This eight-step program includes skills, strategies and exercises for:

  • Managing Your Mind
  • Altering Your Attitudes
  • Developing Your Own Voice
  • Deciding Whose Voice You’ll Listen To
  • Knowing How Your Body Responds to Fear
  • Being Footloose and Fear-Free
  • Strengthening Your Self-Muscle
  • Doing One Gutsy Thing

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Questions 1 & 2: you have a
Shy Fear Style
 
[read Ideas for the Shy Person >>click here]

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Questions 3 & 4: you have a
Hyper vigilant Fear Style
   
[read Ideas for the Hypervigilant Person >>click here]

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Questions 5 & 6: you have a
Compliant Fear Style
   
[read Ideas for the Compliant Person >>click here]

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Questions 7 & 8: you have a
Machismo Fear Style
   
[read Ideas for the Macho Person >>click here]

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Questions 9 & 10: you have a
Controlling Fear Style
   
[read Ideas for the Controlling Person >>click here]

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