Why Fear Is Futile
Alexandre: The people I coach have a fear of not being good enough, of not having success in life, of not being what people want them to be. How can we overcome the fear?
Sadhguru: Fear is a consequence of projecting your thoughts into an area which you know nothing about. People are suffering what may happen tomorrow. What they are suffering is not life but their own imagination. People are always afraid of what may happen. They are suffering something that does not exist.
That means you have not cultivated enough mental discipline. Your memory, present experience, and imagination are all mixed up. It took millions of years of evolution to get to this level of cerebral activity, but now you are suffering it. If you had the brain of an earthworm, you would fall in love easily, maintain that relationship, and die with each other. But because of the cerebral activity, you are imagining things which do not exist and remembering things which you do not need right now.
You cannot change the past. You can only experience the present moment. The future must be crafted the way you want. This ability will not come by becoming confident or by knowing how to woo someone. This will happen when you pay enough attention to the nature of your own intelligence, your own mind, your own body, and how they work. If you understand the mechanics of how you are made, these things are effortless.