The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits

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He got me mad, interested, curious, understood and mainly confused with the set of emotions emerging from me- but trust me, it is worth a read. Even though I've studied CBT as part of my counselling training, the book was a good refresher and reminded me to check my mind set again.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Fear gives Ant his edge, allowing him to seek out life’s challenges, whether that is at home, pushing himself every day to be the best father he can be, or stuck in the death zone on top of the world in a 90mph blizzard.

I read this after my husband said he'd been talking on the radio about fear and controlling emotions. Biography: After thirteen years in the military, with four years as a Special Forces sniper, Ant Middleton is the epitome of what it takes to excel. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. And at the top of Everest, in desperate, life-threatening conditions, he was forced to face up to his greatest fear, of leaving his children and wife without a father and husband.

He explains you can avoid the situations that make you feel fearful, but by doing so you're limiting yourself, it will shrink you, you'll get "sticky boots" and get stuck exactly where you are. Ant never thought the skill he learned to survive and thrive could be transferred and use by other people in different walks of life, but the proof is there. It's why in life, there's always some b*stard nipping at your fin, trying it on, trying to provoke and drag you down to their level. At its best, this told a compelling account of Ant’s journey up Everest which was tense and at times emotional.

I also learned alot about climbing Everest and how the modern climber faces a big challenge from overcrowding and under qualified climbers clogging the route, increasing the natural dangers many-fold. As a rugby mum (he's just healed from a broken collar bone) it was also helpful to learn techniques for helping him turn nerves into action. In his account of climbing Everest, he comes across as a bloody-minded egoist who is prepared to put his team mates at risk by failing to prepare properly as well as going on a 4-day bender immediately before the climb on the grounds that he has 'unusual levels of resilience'. However he is finding himself not just being drawn to danger of seeking it out anywhere he can from running through traffic, to a "camping trip" to the most dangerous place on earth. Registered address: Unit 5, Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, LE5 3EF, United kingdom.But don't let anyone try to convince you that you're a failure until you're actually lying on that deathbed'. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Ant begins this book trying to deal with his sudden popularity and feeling paranoid that everyone knows who he is and wants a piece of him. You might not be able to guarantee what lies on the other side of what you fear, but harnessing your fear and working through it leads to growth, new adventures and opportunities.

I have a 9yr old with a very good imagination which I feel is feeding into fears (he's a very happy child though) and wanted to see if I could adapt my behaviour to set him an example. I consider myself to have a positive outlook as much as possible, and for parts of the book I felt like I understood what Ant was explaining as I do exactly the same. i.e identifying when one is safe - interludes between the more prominent 'fight or flight' moments - to picture 'fear bubbles' and feel and use them productively to drive us momentarily instead of fear looming over us permanently and detrimentally. I'm only aware of him from the SAS TV show where he seems like a standard soldier type, but here he comes across as arrogant and frankly, a bit unhinged.

And there are two ways of meeting them: negatively, where blame is the answer, where other people are at fault, where you haven’t been treated fairly. Mr Middleton, whilst engaging with his writing at times, does tend to contradict himself from one page to the next. Fear gives Ant his edge, allowing him to seek out life's challenges, whether that is at home, pushing himself every day to be the best father he can be, or stuck in the death zone on top of the world in a 90mph blizzard. He is good at explaining how to keep pushing through, how the "fear bubble" should only there at that moment. He thinks of himself as alpha male, he talks about himself as alpha male, he acts like alpha male, but he's also an alpha jerk.