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 makes you perform better)
- 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
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- Consistently confront fear to calibrate your fear GPS.
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Craving and attachment make us fearful of not having whatever we crave and less likely to get it
Related: Emotions #MOC