The book Untie the fear knots of your heart written by Dr.Ken Nicholes is a book that is easy to relate to in my opinon to a lot of people Christian and non-christian believers. The overlying theme so eloquently put in the title is fear. Fear is an emotion that everyone has, fear can help shape us into the people that we are today. Fear can sometimes be a good thing and other times fear can hinder us from our destinies in the book Untie the fear knots of your heart, each one of those senarios are discussed thougout different examples to help the reader relate to what the author is talking about.
The book discussed two types of fear a fear called “motivating fear” and “manipulating fear” one fear may be a bit better than the other depending upon your perspective. Motivating fear helps people when things are hard. When things are not going right or that person is in a dangerous situation and they need to act in order to save their lives, that is when motivating fear would jump into action. Manipulating fear is when something happens to us and it prevents us from moving forward. Sometimes moving forward might mean you do not think you will be able to qualify for a job so you do not apply for it or that might …show more content…
I loved the example the author made about when he and his wife were in san franscisco and there was a terrible earthquake. In the very beginning of the book the author introduces us to a very scary situation that fear would spare anyone. The author awoke in the middle of an earthquake but the people who built the hotel they were staying in had accounted for the hurricane and built the building on rollers so that the building would sway with the earth. That passage spoke volumes to me because often time fear forbids us from moving with the circumstances that surround us and we end up not growing or
The book discussed two types of fear a fear called “motivating fear” and “manipulating fear” one fear may be a bit better than the other depending upon your perspective. Motivating fear helps people when things are hard. When things are not going right or that person is in a dangerous situation and they need to act in order to save their lives, that is when motivating fear would jump into action. Manipulating fear is when something happens to us and it prevents us from moving forward. Sometimes moving forward might mean you do not think you will be able to qualify for a job so you do not apply for it or that might …show more content…
I loved the example the author made about when he and his wife were in san franscisco and there was a terrible earthquake. In the very beginning of the book the author introduces us to a very scary situation that fear would spare anyone. The author awoke in the middle of an earthquake but the people who built the hotel they were staying in had accounted for the hurricane and built the building on rollers so that the building would sway with the earth. That passage spoke volumes to me because often time fear forbids us from moving with the circumstances that surround us and we end up not growing or