Excitement and fear are closely connected. Often, we experience excitement as fear before we allow ourselves to open to the excitement. A classic example of this is stage fright. The amount of life force that's about to move through us in performance is very exhilarating and powerful. It's almost as if the body is frightened of the amount of energy that's going to come through it, so the initial experience is to tighten up against it, which we feel as fear. But what's really underneath it is aliveness and excitement.
