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The Art of Fear

Why Conquering Fear Won't Work and What to Do Instead

by Kristen Ulmer
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The former professional extreme skier "unpacks this misunderstood emotion and lays out strategies for experiencing fear in an empowering way" (Parade).
We all feel fear. Yet we are often taught to ignore it, overcome it, push past it. But to what benefit? This is the essential question that guides Kristen Ulmer's remarkable exploration of our most misunderstood emotion in The Art of Fear.
Once recognized as the best extreme skier in the world (an honor she held for twelve years), Ulmer knows fear well. In this conversation-changing book, she argues that fear is not here to cause us problems—and that in fact, the only true issue we face with fear is our misguided reaction to it (not the fear itself).
Rebuilding our experience with fear from the ground up, Ulmer starts by exploring why we've come to view it as a negative. From here, she unpacks fear and shows it to be just one of 10,000 voices that make up our reality, here to help us come alive alongside joy, love, and gratitude. Introducing a mindfulness tool called "Shift," Ulmer teaches readers how to experience fear in a simpler, more authentic way, transforming our relationship with this emotion from that of a draining battle into one that's in line with our true nature.
Influenced by Ulmer's own complicated relationship with fear and her over fifty years as a mindset facilitator, The Art of Fear will reconstruct the way we react to and experience fear—empowering us to easily and permanently address the underlying cause of our fear-based problems, and setting us on course to live a happier, more expansive future.

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    May 21, 2024

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      • ISBN: 9780062423436
      • File size: 607 KB

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      • ISBN: 9780062423436
      • File size: 1235 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      June 1, 2017

      World-renowned extreme skier Ulmer takes readers on a high-flying ski jump straight into the depths of fear. Having often performed life-defying jumps and ski tricks, Ulmer has a good deal of experience working with fear. She now educates and empowers people by teaching them the steps to own their fear. Ulmer writes that denying, avoiding, repressing, and even attempting to control negative emotions causes major ramifications in one's health, mentally and physically. People are doing a disservice to themselves in trying to repress their negative emotions such as jealousy, anger, and unworthiness, etc.; behind all of these emotions lies fear. Ulmer states readers should instead feel all emotions in order to hear what these emotions are truly saying. Fear can be a great motivator and it's an often-neglected resource. Although the advice is simple in principle, it can get lost in the often monotonous and overdrawn explanations. VERDICT For readers who have a strong motivation to change and want an out-of-the-box strategy.--Melissa Keegan, Ela Area P.L., Lake Zurich, IL

      Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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