Face Your Fear Living Courageously In A Culture Of Caution

Americans are terrified, held hostage by fear. And many of us don't recognize how paralyzed we are. How can the most powerful nation in the world be so afraid? Face Your Fear maintains that we have left ourselves to the mercy of external events because we rely exclusively on external defenses. The more importance we attach to those defenses, the more subject we are to external whims. Kidnapping in the neighborhood? Lock the doors and keep the children inside. Heightened terrorism alert? Cancel those travel plans. Bad economy and unstable markets? Transfer your equity holdings to bonds. Though these strategies may well work in the short term, they are nothing more than a mask against fear, like a mask against the virus SARS. According to Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, world-famous thinker, author, lecturer, and activist, fear and panic are crippling society with unprecedented force. He urges us to immunize ourselves against the virus of fear or it will infect us all. The only way to escape this climate is to examine the nature of fear and learn how to overcome it. Face Your Fear confronts the root causes of our fears and provides a plan of action to eliminate this destructive emotion from our lives. Rabbi Shmuley argues that, far from being merely the product of economic instability or modern terrorism, the roots of fear lie deep in the recesses of the soul and are magnified by a culture of purposelessness and meaninglessness. People today live with the constant fear that they don't matter. They are imprisoned by this fear. He writes eloquently about the tyranny of fear, the futility of fear, and how the media's campaign of fear has compromised our immunity. He goes on to present twenty-two principles for conquering fear, from believing in your destiny to embracing the super-rational, from keeping hope alive to raising fearless children. Face Your Fear is a liberating and life-transforming book that will show all of us how to find redemption and happiness in a life that is audacious and bold.Boteach, Shmuley is the author of 'Face Your Fear Living Courageously In A Culture Of Caution', published 2004 under ISBN 9780312326722 and ISBN 0312326726.