Tara Mohr

Metaphoric space or literal space.

The feeling you feel when you suddenly come into more energy than you normally have.

If you do something that plugs you into your energy.

And the feeling you feel in the presence of the sacred.

Yes, exactly.

And so that kind of fear...

It's like the same as you would on that roller coaster.

You're like, I'm in it.

I'm doing it.

I'm going to breathe.

I already decided this was going to be fun, you know, so I'm going to breathe with it.

And we actually have to learn to tolerate the discomfort of that level of exhilaration.

That's very different from what you'll often now hear, like psychologists will talk about our lizard brain fear.

This is the reptilian part of the brain that's just, everything is scary, worst case scenario thinking.

That, if we only breathe with it, like if let's say you're about to give a presentation and you're sure they're going to laugh me out of the room, that we don't want to just stay and breathe because that kind of fear, which is really what kicks off fight or flight response, that's going to prevent us from doing our best thinking, research shows.

It prevents us from connecting with other people.

So there we aren't just breathing into it.

It's like, how do I shift myself out of this state?

And that's where things like whether you're using your body and you're going to go for a run or you're using an affirmation to try and change your thinking, you're actually trying to change your body out of the fear state so you can essentially perform at your highest level again.

The big mistake so many of us make is we think confidence is coming.