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\"Rabbit<\/a>Have you ever done something so weird and against your own self-interests that your best friend says to you \u201cThat was self-sabotage.\u201d And you can\u2019t help but miserably nod your head and mumble \u201cI don\u2019t know what came over me.\u201d It was fear that came over you.<\/p>\n

Fear that was stealthy, sneaky, predatory. Fear knows how to trick you and catch you and then let you be the agent of your own downfall. If you\u2019ve felt self-sabotage, it is a particularly horrible feeling. Sometimes, despite our rational intentions, we act like the natural prey of the thing we\u2019re most afraid of \u2013 a rabbit covering under the screamingly fast approach of the eagle\u2019s outstretched shadow. In that cramped crouch we are calling ruin upon us.<\/p>\n

Snuggle down little bunnies and breathe deeply here in the safety of our burrow, we will learn a different relationship to fear. We currently have a curse on us, we turned away from something big one day and when we glanced back we\u2019d lost sight of that strength and sense of personal power that gives us confidence in normal living.\u00a0 Perhaps you didn\u2019t know how to stand up to a verbal bully, or you took a fall of some kind, it doesn\u2019t matter you got left behind in something important. Fear has found your signal now and you\u2019re the hunted.<\/p>\n

The fear and danger of beginning<\/h2>\n

One of the richest hunting grounds for fear is in beginnings. Rabbits make a great symbol for beginnings \u2013 so fertile, so closely associated with spring. They\u2019re good eating too and mostly without weapons or armour. So when we begin something new, there\u2019s a tendency to dwell on all the ways we\u2019re vulnerable and at risk. How do you approach being at risk? Lots of times it makes sense to do research on the risks and plan how to avoid or respond to them doesn\u2019t it? A lot of times, too, our friends or mentors suggest that we \u201cface fears head on!\u201d Ah. Sounds reasonable doesn\u2019t it? Sounds brave and tough and more likely to be successful than cowering. Well maybe that works for some people but if this doesn\u2019t work for you here\u2019s something else to try.<\/p>\n

Not everything needs\u00a0a fight with fear<\/h2>\n

Most of learning something new, or making a new beginning isn\u2019t about fighting, it\u2019s about accepting. A beginning means something is going to be different and any fear that shows up at that time is a great invitation to expand. If you\u2019re busy fighting it, it can use the distraction to send a flanking movement around to sneak up on you, all that energy you\u2019re putting out is going in the wrong direction. Perhaps instead you could invite it over for tea and cake and once it has settled in, let it tell you what\u2019s going on for it. Your fear is, after all, the shadow of your dreams. Let fear join your team, let it have a place at the table to discuss strategies and ideas it has seen further than you have right now down the path you desire and if you\u2019re not fighting you have a chance of growing together and becoming more than the sum of your parts.<\/p>\n

Fear might be uncomfortable to have around regularly, but much better there in your lounge room where you can get hot under the collar together and work things through than behind you with a knife in your frozen back.<\/p>\n

Image credit:\u00a0“Rabbit medicine” by Angela C Werneke in ‘Medicine Cards’ <\/a>by Sams and Carson (1988).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fear knows how to trick you and catch you and then let you be the agent of your own downfall. If you\u2019ve felt self-sabotage, it is a particularly horrible feeling. Sometimes, despite our rational intentions, we act like the natural prey of the thing we\u2019re most afraid of \u2013 a rabbit covering under the screamingly fast approach of the eagle\u2019s outstretched shadow. 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