Faith vs Fear delusion

I remembered something my yoga teacher said today:
faith and fear are built on the same foundation,
the future.
Neither has proof.
Neither has guarantees.
Both are stories we tell ourselves
about what has not happened yet.

Fear rehearses catastrophes.
It spends energy on scenes that never asked to be written.
It trains the nervous system to suffer in advance,
as if pain deserved interest before it even exists.
Being delusional about fear is exhausting,
because it asks you to carry weight for miles
without knowing if the road will ever rise.

Faith, on the other hand, is a different kind of leap.
It doesn’t deny effort, discipline, or uncertainty.
It simply chooses to believe that movement matters.
That consistency leaves traces.
That showing up changes the outcome,
even when the timeline is unclear.

If both faith and fear are guesses,
why not be daring with faith?
Why not assume that things can align,
that your work is not wasted,
that goals recognize effort the way soil recognizes water.

Faith says: you are not empty-handed.
You carry tools you’ve been sharpening quietly.
You’ve trained patience, resilience, awareness.
You’ve survived things you once thought you couldn’t.
So when challenges arrive,
not if, but when,
you will meet them standing, not scrambling.

Fear imagines futures where you are smaller.
Faith imagines futures where you are ready.

And readiness doesn’t mean control.
It means trust in your capacity to respond.
Trust that you are becoming someone
who can hold both joy and difficulty without breaking.

So if delusion is inevitable,
let it be generous.
Let it believe that life meets effort halfway,
that you are enough for what’s coming,
and that whatever unfolds,
you will know how to face it
because you have been training all along.