Are you often frozen in fear, unable to live the life you want and deserve?
You have some idea of what's holding you back, but you can't seem to let the cascade of negative, anxiety-provoking emotions slide off your back.
In
Winning the Game of Fear, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and mindset and behavior expert, John Assaraf promises to show how to build the foundation for success in your life by helping you relieve the counterproductive thoughts and emotions that stop you from taking action towards fulfilling your dreams.
In this Winning the Game of Fear review, I will detail whether this popular product deserves its largely glowing reviews.
I will detail course content and some particular "Winning the game" strategies that you can use right now to free yourself from fearful thoughts, anxiety, panic, and the like.
The Disastrous Impact of Chronic Fear
Fear is a normal human emotion that, in moderation, can make us more alert, motivate us to prepare for something challenging, or keep us safe from legitimate dangers.
When we are afraid, our brains and bodies work together to prepare us to engage in the fight-or-flight response.
Fear is adaptive when it works properly.
But when fear becomes chronic and excessive, it begins to exert a negative impact on our daily lives.
If we’re not careful, fear can keep us on the sidelines of our own lives!
It can prevent us from experiencing love and connection, career advancement and success, and building deeper relationships with ourselves and others.
The negative consequences of fear include:
Fear Compromises Emotional Health - When fear becomes chronic, it can turn into anxiety. Anxiety is a feeling of apprehension or fear that is strong enough to interfere with one’s daily activities.
Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting over 50 million adults in the United States age 18 and older (about 20% of the U.S. population).
Mental illness is particularly on the upswing now because of dire fears related to the Covid pandemic.
Fear Destroys Physical Health - Our bodies are hardwired to respond to fear by preparing for physical action. This causes stress hormones to surge throughout the body.
These hormones can suppress the immune system, increase blood pressure and heart rate, and constrict blood vessels.
This complex natural alarm system consistently loops with regions of the brain that control mood, motivation and fear.
The body's stress response was designed to protect us from predators and other threats.
But most modern-day fears aren't life-or-death situations.
Nevertheless, when we perceive something as frightening, our bodies react just as strongly as if we are actually in danger.
With repeated exposure to fear or stress over a prolonged time period (chronic), the impact on health can be significant:
Chronic stress disrupts nearly every system in your body.
Fear Undermines Brain Processing and Reactivity - The fear response starts in a region of the brain called the amygdala.
Fearful thoughts trigger many split-second changes in the body to prepare to defend against danger or to avoid it.
The hyperarousal response floods the body with hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol.
In the short term, these changes increase your strength and stamina, speed your reaction time, and enhance your focus—preparing you to either fight or flee from the danger at hand.
However, when this reaction occurs too frequently, or when it persists for long periods, it can be harmful to a person’s physical and emotional well-being.
This can occur if a person has an anxiety disorder or lives with stress and worry on a daily basis.
Fear can interrupt processes in our brains that allow us to think before we act, control emotions, act ethically, read and understand non-verbal cues. and decode other information.
This impacts our thinking and decision-making in negative ways, leaving us susceptible to intense emotions and impulsive reactions.
All of these effects can leave us unable to act appropriately.
The good news is that there are powerful techniques proven to help even the most chronic worriers break free of their fears.
The Winning the Game of Fear program is designed to help you deal with your most deeply rooted fears—and create a life filled with happiness, joy, and meaning along the way.
Winning the Game of Fear Review - The Fundamental Foundations
You’re about to discover how you can use the Winning the Game of Fear Brain Training and Coaching Program to quickly break through your biggest fears and take the next steps towards living a richer, more meaningful, and more satisfying life.
The Winning the Game of Fear Brain Training and Coaching Program’s core exercises allow you to tap into the powerful four R process to reduce anxiety, fear and other states that keep you from achieving your goals.
The four R process is safe, simple, requires no pills or complicated formulas, and anyone can learn it.
I don’t want to leave you in suspense, so here is a brief introduction to the 4R process. (I think all the other Winning the Game of Fear reviews don’t expound on this fundamental foundation.)
1sr R - Recognize and respond to fear
In order to get rid of any negative thought patterns and behaviors, you must first be able to recognize them.
Negative thought patterns can often manifest as a voice in your head, an emotion or physical sensation in your body, or a behavioral pattern.
If you start to recognize your negative thoughts and can look for their pattern (e.g., I keep thinking this person is mad at me), then you’re more likely to catch it and be mindful when it happens next time, bringing awareness to it,
Approach anxiety without judgment to begin to let go of it.
2nd R - Reframe the fear
Try to reframe fear or any unpleasant thought or emotion into a positive one (or a less destructive one) by adding words to the emotion or thought.
For example, if you find yourself thinking, “I have so much to do at work; I won’t be able to finish it all today,” try to reframe the comment and add on the positive spin: “I have so much to do at work today and I’m more than capable of finishing it all.”
Spinning fear in a way this disempowers it will reduce any potential adverse effect of the perceived threat.
Fear is part of the experience of being human. There is no way to eliminate it entirely, but there are ways of working with it.
Once you learn to handle fear through reframing and other
Winning the Game of Fear techniques, you may even find yourself looking forward to the challenges ahead, without worrying about whether you can overcome the obstacles in the way.
Third R - Release the Fear
Whether your fear is caused by a realistic perception of danger, or it is irrational and imagined, you are still flooded with negative emotions like stress and anxiety.
The best way to approach releasing fear is to first recognize that you are having these emotional responses.
Then, when you find yourself being overcome by unrelieved emotional tension, stop what you are doing and take a few slow, deep breaths until you feel your emotional response start to fade away.
Fear is a natural emotion. But sometimes you may feel paralyzed or frightened because you are experiencing fear.
It can make your imagination go wild, causing emotional loops, which, in turn, can make it difficult to find options or solutions.
You need to act now and release your fear in order to be free from this negative influence on your life.
John Assaraf details how to release overwhelming emotions in Winning the Game of Fear.
4th R - Retrain your brain
By rewiring your thoughts and emotions, you’re able to change an unproductive thought pattern to a positive anchor point.
This is where “I CAN’T” becomes “I CAN.”
By focusing on this new positive anchor point, reciting it daily, and creating an emotional connection, you are creating an empowerment scenario which sends your brain the message that you can live up to your highest potential and defeat any obstacle in your path.
There are outstanding examples of how to retrain your brain (subconscious and conscious brain) in Winning the Game of Fear.
Another core component of the training is visualization.
The program teaches you how to use visualization to train your brain out of fear and into empowered action.
Visualization is a powerful tool to enable you to control your fears and to keep a clear mind.
It allows you to develop mental imagery by seeing the reality of the things you wish for in your mind's eye or written on a vision board.
It helps you see what you want in a very definite way, which makes it easier to attain.
Visualization works not by eliminating fear but by reframing it.
John Assaraf will also expose you to the attention shifting technique.
The best way to get over your fear is to shift mindset. So, you shift attention from the things you fear to the things that make you feel calm, secure and safe.
When you shift your attention to a more positive thought, you can feel immediate stress relief. Talk about emotional intelligence!
Winning the Game of Fear Course - How is it Set Up?
John Assaraf’s Winning the Game of Fear is a tiered system, designed to be used daily, although the material syllabus, so to speak, is presented on a weekly basis.
Winning the Game of Fear consists of an extensive audio and video library featuring top brain neuroscientists and behavior experts expounding on the brain-fear connection.
For example, neuroplasticity is a term used to describe the brain’s ability to change in response to experience, and as such, to continually reorganize neural pathways based on new information or changes in environment.
New neurons continue to be generated throughout life in certain areas of the brain.
All of this has implications for how we might best approach our healing, recovery, and growth outside of the box when we’re confronted by fearful, anxiety-provoking experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
Aside from the course material itself, I appreciate how well organized it is.
Here are a few sample lessons:
This comprehensive program reveals so many strategies to tackle fear from all different vantage points.
You just need one effective tip to tip the emotional scales in your favor.
Instruction via case studies can also provide insight into which method may work best for you.
Winning the Game of Fear Bonus - Innercise to Exorcise Your Fear-Based Demons
Here are the major components of these Innercise exercises, presented in audio format.
Take 6 Calm the Circuits - Control your emotions and effects of stress by calming the circuits in your brain that control fear, anxiety, and anger.
Take 6 combines cutting-edge mind-control techniques with high-tech biofeedback methods that enable you to calm the circuits in your brain that control negative emotions.
AIA (Awareness, Intention, Action) - This is a transformative state of mind that boosts your awareness and allows you to increase your level of control over your thoughts, emotions, and actions.
This enables you to reframe most situations to avoid fear, anger, resentment, and other negative attitudes.
AIA helps you stop incessantly ruminating over past events and worrying about the future so that you can focus on the present moment where all the power is.
Mindfulness is a mental technique which uses the strategy of focusing one's awareness on the present moment.
It has been used by therapists to treat anxiety and fear, and in professional training settings to master public speaking skills, among many other applications.
The role of mindfulness in overcoming fear is especially powerful because it addresses the very core of how we perceive and process our emotions.
Now discover mindfulness and other ways to break out of old behavioral patterns that no longer serve you or your purpose in life.
Give yourself a chance to dream the unachievable dream and achieve it!
I Release - Learn the simple demonstration that explains how most people hold on to fearful thoughts.
This easy-to-understand technique allows you to release disempowering thoughts and feelings, limiting beliefs, and past negative experiences easily.