Fear

What is Fear?

Danger and Fear are not the same. Danger is real, Fear is the anticipation of danger our symbolic minds project everywhere.

After some point Fear becomes a mental [[ habits ]] Many fears comes from a lack of [[ Self Love ]] and from aversion

• Fear is not the same as concern
  • The latter has a sense of stability

Fear and [[ attachment ]]

Attachment creates a dependency, and dependency, because of its nature, intrinsically carries with it a fear of loss. From [[ Book - Letting Go - David Hawkins ]]

What Fear Does

• Fear doesn’t only affect us, it affects reality as we experience it (everything is interconnected -interbeing-)
  • The thing we’re afraid of looks more scary when we’re afraid

Fear likes to wear masks

• it shows up in forms like [[ stress ]] and [[ anxiety ]]
  • stress is the fear of failing to live up to expectations?
  • anxiety is a state of constant fearful anticipation.
  • The harsher your [[ Inner Critic ]] punishes you for not meeting expectations, the more stress and anxiety you will feel.
• Sometimes, the fear of acting towards your goal may masks itself as non-attachment to a goal (Detachment from results makes you more relaxed and better performing)
  • It manages to prevent you from acting
  • You don’t even realize you’re not acting out of fear

Physical Reactions

• sparks cortisol levels
• Immune system dysfunction
• Endocrine system dysfunction

Practices

• Move towards fears
  • Consistently confront fear to calibrate your fear GPS.
• mentally rehearse fears -negative visualization-
• [[ Embrace Uncertainty ]]

• choose faith over fear

• Craving and attachment make us fearful of not having whatever we crave and less likely to get it
  • Detachment from results makes you more relaxed and better performing

Related: [[ Emotions ]] #MOC