Questioner: Many times in my daily life
fear stops me from doing small things and bigger things
fear from failure,
fear from
maybe from rejection sometimes.
How to overcome this fear?
Sadhguru: You cannot overcome something which does not exist.
Right now, are you in fear?
Right now,
that I may say something damaging?
Is that the fear? (Laughs)
Every moment of your life, you are in fear?
No.
So, when you are not in fear,
just stay like that
because to create fear,
you have to use excessive imagination.
To not be in fear, you don’t have to do anything.
Fear is happening because of excessive imagination
things that have not happened, you are creating.
What may happen in your mind
happens in thousand different formats
and most probably it never happens.
The things that you have feared
Take hundred things that you have feared.
Probably ninety nine of them never happened, isn’t it?
Yes?
So, your fear is always about that which does not exist.
You cannot fight or you cannot overcome that which does not exist.
We can overcome something which… that exists.
You cannot overcome that which does not exist.
We just have to give up that effort.
Enjoy the fear.
After all, it’s your making.
You like horror movies?
Yes.
I mean, you are saying no
but you are producing them.
Just they are not making money, that’s all.
Fear means you’re producing horror movies in your mind.
Nobody else is willing to watch.
That’s bad for the producer,
but you are producing them.
So, you produce something else
produce a comedy, a love story, suspense thriller
try and see today.
Just sit down, produce a love story,
a suspense thriller,
a comedy -
five five minutes movies you make in your mind,
really.
Start using your mind differently.
It’s just gotten into your pattern.
It’s just gotten into your pattern of
just creating horror movies all the time.
You have watched enough horror movies, they’re boring.
Create something else.
Even… It’s not that if you produce these movies,
those things will happen in your life.
Still they may not happen.
At least you enjoy the movie. (Laughs)
In reality, it may not happen,
so what?
At least you enjoy what’s happening in your mind
if you cannot enjoy what’s happening in the world, isn’t it?
That much privilege every human being deserves. Isn’t it so?
Even if the world is not kind to him,
at least his own mind should be kind to him
so produce some nice movies. (Laughs)