The quality of our lives are determined by the quality of our thoughts. It takes a consistent effort over a significant amount of time to redirect our energy towards what we actually want instead of what we think we want, don’t want or too scared to do.
Yes life is scary however in the context over a long period time is it as scary as we perceive it to be?
The only way thru is to accept, whatever it is that you perpetuate what you chose with resistance this is the first step. Over time the more you accept where you are on your journey then the integrity of your thoughts become higher of nature.
It does get more difficult the more you grow this is the process you have to go through if you want to lift what’s distracting you. Distraction and quality of thoughts are two ends one has priority or it most certainly always should