The Truth About Fear & Why You’ve Got It All Wrong with Akshay Nanavati

<p>In this episode, we show you how to turn your fear into health, wealth, and happiness. If you want something you’ve never had before, you have to do something you’ve never done before. That means suffering and taking risks. Building a positive relationship with suffering is one of the most important life skills you can master. Suffering is the true training ground of self-transcendence. With our guest Akshay Nanavati we show you how to choose your struggle and build meaningful suffering into your life.&nbsp;Akshay Nanavati is a Marine Corps Veteran, speaker, adventurer, entrepreneur and author of "Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear into Health, Wealth and Happiness." He is also the founder of the nonprofit, the Fearvana Foundation. His work has been featured in Forbes, Psychology Today, entrepreneur.com, CNN, Huffington Post, Military Times, FOX 5 NY, ABC, NBC and other media outlets around the globe.&nbsp;</p><p>From drug addiction to marine corps Bootcamp - to hunting for bombs in Iraq - how Akshay learned to deal with fear&nbsp;</p><p>The toughest battle Akshay had to fight was coming home - dealing with PTSD and suicidal thoughts&nbsp;</p><p>We live in a world that demonizes stress, anxiety, fear, pain and suffering - and yet in the psychology and neuroscience research shows us that our emotions are normal and inevitable </p><p>We don’t live in a world of life-threatening risks anymore, and so our brain creates these risks </p><p>No emotions are good or bad - we assign and create the meaning via our beliefs Humans are meaning-making machines - we naturally create meaning out of everything </p><p>What you are labeling yourself can powerfully shape your experiences. </p><p>Typical behaviors like “depression” “PTSD” etc are just brain patterns, and they can be re-written using “Top-Down Neuroplasticity” </p><p>Don’t wait for the fear to go away, act despite the fear.. or once you learn to train yourself.. BECAUSE of the fear&nbsp;</p><p>Building a positive relationship to sufferi