Why Fear

I have imaginings of something bad happening to me in the future. Why do I do this? I am borrowing fear. I am creating fear. And worse, I'm experiencing fear today. Nothing has happened, yet my body experiences the cortisol, my blood pressure rises, I get a knot in my stomach, etc. But nothing happened. It was all in my imagination. Which means, I can change it. I thought about the men who walk across steal I-beams on giant skyscrapers while they're building them. All they are doing is walking. I can walk. They walk in a straight line. I can walk in a straight line. But they can do it without fear of falling. All I think about is falling, so I'm very afraid. But what if instead I though, "I can walk a straight line". What if I paid no attention to the "what if's". I can walk a straight line. I do it all day. I put one foot in front of the other and walk. No problem. If I could keep my mind off the fears, the imaginations, I could walk across the beams 20 stories high or more. What could you do if you didn't imagine being afraid of it? What would it look like if you just pictured it done? I see myself on the other side. I'm walking to the other side. No problem.