“One who is in love is fearless.”
Those were the words of my Kung Fu teacher many years ago.
An ancient piece of Eastern wisdom.
Love what you do.
Let it into your heart.
And then there is no need to fight.
No need to resist.
From childhood, we are taught to live a certain way, eat certain foods, follow familiar paths.
“It’s been done this way for generations.”
“It’s been tested by time.”
And that is often where we first encounter fear when we hear that there may be another way to live. A different way to eat. A different way to think.
Something unfamiliar.
Unusual.
Foreign.
Meet it with curiosity.
Meet it with openness.
Meet it with love.
And perhaps, in that moment, you have already won.
Or perhaps not.
But if fear makes the decision for us, we may spend years convincing ourselves that the obstacle was something else entirely.
Sometimes it was iron.
Sometimes protein.
Sometimes B12.
And sometimes it was simply the discomfort of stepping into the unknown.