I believe many of our fears, career-related or otherwise, stem from a misperception of ourselves as small and weak.  We see ourselves as too fragile to deal with possible setbacks in our jobs, confrontations in our relationships, medical issues, and so on.  Even if we know it’s not rational, many of us have the deep-seated anxiety [...]

I wrote an article a while back about how, ultimately, many of our anxieties can be traced back to a single fear—the fear of annihilation, or nonexistence.  I described a few exercises we can use to grasp this fact at a deep, visceral level.  In this article, I’ll talk about a method I’ve used to [...]