FEAR AND ITS EFFECT IN OUR LIVES

Hi SR
Fear is a primitive instinct build into us to warn against danger. It is a normal emotion until it becomes a paranoia.

just like fly spray ...in a can striking fear into flying insects ..

here there's many types of fears , fears = that I wont get the blog comment in time ...

in time befor someone else does ...

lets say your car gets hit while you are at the mall/wallmart/supermarket ect , and you will have a fear of not wanting your car to be hit again ....so you will go to a different place to do your shopping ...and if you are realy lucky you might find your dream pair of shoes there ... who knows what might happen in life by taking a different turn , like a life never lived a child never born , or free pizza slices as you enter the door .....

I fear God!

@Sunday....... Most of the time people fear the unknown!! Fear often stops people from going forward in life and pursuing their dreams!!

Hello Sr,

I do agree with all the posts but I am going to try and attempt to look at fear from a different viewpoint....granted I am just a businessman and no professional in this area what so ever. I also share in your position of trying to better humanity, whenever I can. Can you imagine a world where every single living person only had love an compassion toward everyone else? One would think we are intelligent enough to recognize the benefits of such global society?? Who knows, we may be able to travel the stars, cure all diseases, eliminate any sort of hunger....the list would go on and on.

What comes to mind when the subject of fear comes up is FDR's statement "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

As many have mentioned, fear is an emotion. What I find interesting about fear is different people fear different things. Somebody brought up the fear of public speaking and you being a college professor probably do not have a fear of public speaking. I remember in one of my college classes we had to give a presentation. I had three members in my group. While giving the presentation, one of the members in my group literally just froze up in fear. The rest of our group, though uncomfortable, gave the presentation with no major issues. What makes one fear something that another does not? What makes one fear something that makes them "freeze-up"; whereas, another person may just be a little uncomfortable or not uncomfortable at all?

There is a difference between fear and danger, as already noted above. Fear is a state of mind and derives from thoughts. A lot of thoughts that develop fear can come at any point in our lives. However, there are fears that we develop at a very young age through child scripts.

As mentioned in a previous post, our child scripts are something we learn very early on in life to protect our well-being as a child. These child scripts are so imbedded within our minds that we do not even know they are there. There is a way to test what sort of child scripts you have. I cannot remember the exact scenario in which I tested mine but you need to imagine yourself in a situation and what is your instinctual reaction to that situation helps to identify your child scripts. I would imagine there is something on the internet that could help one identify your scripts.

I know this is going to ruff some feathers but here it is again. Eckhart Tolle's teachings can help you to become more aware of your emotions. Yes, you can follow his teachings to the word 24hours/7days a week of your life, or, you can use his teachings to help you understand your emotions. I have a question. How can you moderate your emotions if you do not understand and know the full spectrum of them?

I think I stayed on point here? :)