Fear is not always a warning that you should stop what you are doing or that there is real danger ahead. If fear is coupled with a feeling of positive anticipation (like butterflies in your stomach), it could signal a new experience that will challenge your limits and your trust. The combination of fear and exhilaration can be a sign that you should move forward and take the risk, rather than retreat.
If the experience you are considering is unfamiliar to you, it's likely to elicit fear, since most of us are afraid of the unknown. In the course of making your decision, consider: the risks, the potential benefits, and the alternatives. Notice your internal reaction as well as what your intellect tells you.
As we age, life tends to present more opportunities to stretch into other ways of discernment that are not entirely based on logic and cannot easily be settled by a list of the pros and cons.
The 17th century French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, affirms this idea in this quote: "The heart has its reason, of which reason knows nothing."
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