克服恐惧-经历如何减少恐惧(1)

克服恐惧

 

How experience reduces fear.

 

经历如何减少恐惧。

 

 

I used to be very afraid of getting upin front of people and speaking. I would get sweaty palms and my stomach wouldbe so tied up that I wouldn't be able to eat. I would experience so muchtension in my neck and shoulders that I would almost always have a headache bythe time I had to speak or shortly thereafter¹.

 

我曾经非常害怕在人们面前讲话。我会手心冒汗，肚子还会抽筋以至于都吃不下东西。我的脖子和肩膀还会一直有一股力量紧绷着，导致我在讲话或者讲话之后一会儿就会一阵头疼。

 

Each time I spoke² though, I noticed afterwards that it wasn't that bad. This is a trend I've noticed throughout mylife. Things I fear are never as bad in reality as I make them out to be in mymind.

 

每一次我当众讲话之后，我都会注意到其实它并没有想得那样糟糕。这是我在生活中已经注意到了的一种现象。我害怕的事情在现实中并没有像我想象的那样可怕。

 

So one element of training forfearlessness is to simply push ourselves to do things that we fear so that wehave more opportunities to develop the wisdom that the things we fear arealways worse in our minds than they are when we actually experience them.

 

所以锻炼克服恐惧的一个方法是就让自己去做我们所感到恐惧的事，这样我们就会有更多的机会来提升自身的智慧，认识到我们所恐惧的事在想象中比在现实中是更加可怕的。

1 thereafter   

adv.此后，以后

参考例句：

• Thereafter they did not speak.此后他们就不再讲话了。
• On the opening day all tickets are a dollar, thereafter,they'll be two dollars.开张那天票价一元，以后两元。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。