What is there to fear only the fear of thoughts, those thoughts that produce a 'bad taste in the mouth' 'the squashed diaphragm' 'the dry mouth' 'the quenched buttocks' 'the sore arse' 'that sickening feeling'
the fear of fear, the fearing of feeling fear that is the harbinger of anxiety and disquiet.
These thoughts / emotive / feelings can pop up in the mind as uninvited guests and may seem random but some external symbol may activate them such a sound, aroma, touch a familiar face, a weather pattern and a host of many things. Then the mind becomes fixed almost to a point of obsessiveness.
These thoughts and attendant feelings are more than likely habitual and if harboured become abject fear and as such stick like mud and become hardened and difficult to remove or deal with.
Ask yourself; do you need them, what use are they to you, do they serve you, do they enrich your life or impede yourself?
They can serve to make us more negative, cynical, sceptic and mistrusting and is this what you really want?
Some people may find this reassuring as it keeps people out and is like a safety mechanism of keeping people at a distance and not forming meaningful friendships.
So is fear useful;well caution can be useful to ward off real danger, also fear can destroy natural intuitive instinct and to trust oneself, so one has to be alert and aware and should one be able to examine fear when it arises, one may find, if one can look at it by taking deep breaths and looking at it undauntedly and unbiased as possible and feel the grip loosen and gradually relax the tension and see the fear for what it is-- perhaps an old conditioned response and reaction that has become habitual and as such has well out grown its sell by date.
SHACK
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