I finally understand feeling brave (Part 9)

A message from Dr. Ziv Simon

March 26, 2020

Hello my friend,

I hope you had a good day....We had over 500 dentists in our broadcast today. There were close to 700 more that couldn't get in. Sorry. We just upgraded our system and this will not happen next week.

 Thank you to the many that attended our broadcast. you had many other options. We'll send a replay soon.

Today, I taught how to treat patients at this time and how to implement new protocols. I will share all the documents and the step-by-step surgical dress-up and undress sequence with you. 

Next week I plan to refine these protocols and share even more. 

Dr. Zeno Pirlea from Romania wrote this to me:

"You brought normality in these tensed days...I personally try to keep my mind busy with other things, as much as possible ,do all 😊the things I didn’t have time to do until now. Some workout for keeping in shape as you advised and thinking for new strategies for the future"

Dr. Pirlea is under lockdown.

Keeping in shape and planning your future. Made my day.

I talked about fears before in this daily blog, where they come from and how I talk to them and make them go away for some time.

My fears come to visit me in the morning.  Early.

I get a very sound good night sleep, but those bustards come at around 4:45AM. They don't wake me. They just wait for the alarm to sound and then they make their move. Real slick.

So they came this morning and this time I tried something new. I connected with them.

I connected with how they made my body feel. A first for me.

Instead of talking to the fears and sending them home packing, I connected and focused on the physical sensation of fear. Try it.

Here's what went through my head: "What am I feeling right now, laying in bed before I start my day?".

Here's what I felt. 

I felt cold. Physically cold. No window was open and our home's temperature is well-regulated. 

I felt cold around the bottom of my legs and around the mid section and chest area. Slightly hard to breath but not terrible. On a scale of 0-10 (0 being the beach in the Bahamas and 10 being a panic attack), it was around a 3-4.

A sensation of being cold and slight labored breathing. It was like stepping out of the house early in the morning during the winter.

Fear is a sensation of feeling cold.

Now I understand why we stuff ourselves with food and liquids that make us feel warm. I rarely drink alcohol but that too makes you warm.

It's just a physical sensation that can be easily altered.

Not by drinking alcohol, or putting a blanket on. I warmed this fear with a good workout. It was gone in seconds.

I share this personal story from today because you too may feel scared about the uncertainty and fast paced changes in your life.

I'll let you know what happens tomorrow but I'm going to look at the feeling of fear a little different. It's like feeling cold and you felt cold a million times in your life. No big deal.

When you're cold, get warmed up.  The process of warming up for me is from now on, how I define courage.

Find a way to shake up negative emotions by breaking them down to their bare elements. Focus on how they make you feel physically. Then find the opposite. There is always an antidote.

It's total cool to feel scared. Don't get debilitated. Find a way to warm up and you'll do well, my friend.

With warm regards,

Ziv.