MIND • BODY • SPIRIT
Any or many of these may resonate with you, or maybe there are even other reasons out there you feel drive this fear in you. Whatever the reason, the underlying impact is that anxious feeling, the one causing the barrier to go up. When it does, it is important to know how easily it arrives, and it
prepared for what may come. “I want to avoid a situation in which I’m not happy with myself in the future, so I’m willing to hold onto all this stuff to prevent such a situation.” And of course, you may just be overstating the word “need,” and us- ing it when you really mean “want” or “could put this to good use.”
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making the cost or the uniqueness easier to absorb in our minds. Most commonly, we’re just afraid if we let go of something and were put in a position later when we could
have used that item, it will sting or embarrass us. When this happens, it makes us feel like a failure, like we’re letting people down, letting ourselves down, when we’re not perfectly
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