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THE POWER OF TAKING THE PLUNGE

would happen if you just exercised basic
caution without the emotion. The emotion will
convince you of its necessity and if you comply,
you’ll never know any difference. Every time
you engage avoidance because of fear, you are

reinforcing the credibility of the fear.
The interesting thing about the body's response
to fear is that it is exactly the same for an

imagined fear as it is an actual fear of something
right in front of you in the material world.

If you are in the African Savanna, and you see a
lion, your body responds the same whether you
actually see a lion or whether you just thought
you saw a lion.

If you just think about that, it is amazing.
Imagine you are sitting at home staring blankly
out the window. Suddenly, just a single thought
can pop into your head. Depending on the
thought, a feeling of sadness or euphoria or
lustfulness or anger can sweep through your
body in an instant. Your pancreas secretes a
hormone and your liver makes an enzyme that

wasn’t there just moments before. The blood
flow around your body is altered.

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