5. ''Revise your assumptions''. Periodically '''reflect on your fears''' of intimacy as realistically as possible, because as you progress, it will be easier to talk yourself out of them. Sometimes a "gut fear" established in infancy will never go away, but it can be overridden by thinking to yourself: "I know this fear is meant to protect me, '''but it's like a false alarm'''--I do not need to act on it. I appreciate the warning very much, but I think I will ignore it." | 5. ''Revise your assumptions''. Periodically '''reflect on your fears''' of intimacy as realistically as possible, because as you progress, it will be easier to talk yourself out of them. Sometimes a "gut fear" established in infancy will never go away, but it can be overridden by thinking to yourself: "I know this fear is meant to protect me, '''but it's like a false alarm'''--I do not need to act on it. I appreciate the warning very much, but I think I will ignore it." |