The Fearful
The Fearful
We are so afraid. You can see the evidence everywhere: how we treat ourselves; how we consciously and unconsciously control and manipulate each other; how we raise our kids; how we treat employees; how we need lawyers; how we troll on social media, and how the vast majority of snap judgment is biased toward the negative and fearful.
It's a chronic issue in our society. When a culture can more easily believe in inequity, imbalance, injustice, inequality, and powerlessness, it proliferates an atmosphere of distrust, cynicism, competition, and violence.
Yet fear is not the absence of love. The energies are not mutually exclusive. We're simply more accustomed to fear, than we are to deep, universal love.
Fear is a means; a gauge; a road sign that to the awake and aware is an opportunity for greater understanding and spiritual expansion. It's the added weight of emotional attachments, and the internalized meanings we ascribe to fear that clog up our organic mechanism.
We get stuck in our heads, and as we persist towards panic and anxiety, that faculty shuts down. We're reliant on instinct and our most primitive, childish programming -- and if that area is laden with trauma and wounding, we will act and behave as the worst version of ourselves. We will have need for escapism, just to get back into our heads, never mind elevating beyond.
I would wager that most of us exist primarily in our minds, only occasionally dipping into the heart center, thus disregarding our spiritual brain. In fact, much of the intelligence that flows from the energy centers throughout our bodies (when functioning well) are vastly misused.
This can, of course, be rectified.
I think a broader reaching consciousness is emerging, and we can all help move things along toward a universal awakening by doing the work: become aware of your unaddressed emotional wounds and unprocessed traumas; reduce exposure to fear-mongering media streams (you know, be aware, but don't soak in it); reconnect with your "why" in life; move your body, move your energy, move your emotions, challenge your notions; shake it up!
Guidance and inspiration are ever-present. Look again.
Solvitur ambulando
Great article @tranceblackman you have delved into the dark realms of the hooman condition and how fear effects us on multiple levels.
Everything we perceive to feel has a purpose in our existence, for instance pain is quite unpleasant to feel , however it is an indicator that there is an issue which must be rectified. an example would be sitting to close to a fire and feeling the burning sensation indicates that we should move further from the flame.
Fear can be a utilized in a number of ways in the hooman condition, as a deterrent from danger, as a motivator to avoid adverse effects and much more. Where fear is an issue, like many conditions, is when it gets out of hand and is no longer a balanced part of our lives. When fear becomes and irrational part of our lives it can express itself in unhealthy ways, such as phobias which by definition is an irrational fear of something.
Phobias can be debilitating to those suffering from them and are at one end of the extreme on the scale of fear, where it prevents us from being able to do anything, at the other extreme is a lack of fear , leading us to take much higher risks than necessary. Higher risk taking behavior can be associated with problematic gambling, higher rates to car accin=dents and much more.
what we see in these examples is that at both ends of the extremes fear is an issue for decision making and human interaction. What we strive to achieve is equilibrium , a balance of fear which is healthy to the day to day existence of an individual.
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Thank you for your considered response. And apologies for the very late reply on my part.
TB