Fear is a vital response to physical and emotional danger—if we didn't
feel it, we couldn't protect ourselves from legitimate threats. But
often we fear situations that are far from life-or-death, and thus hang
back for no good reason. Trauma or bad experiences can trigger a fear response within us that is hard to quell. Yet exposing ourselves to our personal demons is the best way to move past them. to me.. one of my worse fear is.. to get sick and not being able to feel well and live life.. this would be my night mare.. I love life, and I love feeling good.. so iam scared of a big sickness having control to my life.. so.. I always ask God to protect me.. so I can live long and feel healthy! I also fear losing my family.. or my husband or Daugther.. I hope I can die first so i wont suffer! and I have panic, I hate, flying.. I just hate it.. and since I was little.. I dream about a air plane crashing when Iwas flying and I died because of it.. Medical experts tell us that the anxious feeling we get when we're afraid is a
standardized biological reaction.
It's pretty much the same set of body signals, whether we're afraid of
getting bitten by a dog, getting turned down for a date, or getting our
taxes audited. Fear, like all other emotions, is basically
information. It offers us knowledge and understanding - if we choose to accept it - of our psychobiological status.
by: Dr. Karl Albrecht
There are only
five basic fears, out of which almost all of our other so-called fears are manufactured.
Those five basic fears are:
Extinction
- fear of annihilation, of ceasing to exist. This is a more fundamental
way to express it than just calling it the "fear of death". The idea of
no longer being arouses a
primary existential anxiety in all normal humans. Consider that panicky feeling you get when you look over the edge of a high building.
Mutilation
- fear of losing any part of our precious bodily structure; the thought
of having our body's boundaries invaded, or of losing the integrity of
any organ, body part, or natural function. For example, anxiety about
animals, such as bugs, spiders, snakes, and other creepy things arises
from fear of mutilation.
Loss of Autonomy - fear of being
immobilized, paralyzed, restricted, enveloped, overwhelmed, entrapped,
imprisoned, smothered, or controlled by circumstances. In a physical
form, it's sometimes known as claustrophobia, but it also extends to
social interactions and relationships.
Separation - fear of abandonment, rejection, and loss of connectedness - of
becoming a non-person - not
wanted, respected, or valued by anyone else. The "silent treatment,"
when imposed by a group, can have a devastating psychological effect on
the targeted person
.
Ego-death - fear of humiliation
, shame, or any other mechanism of profound self-disapproval that threatens the
loss of integrity of the Self; fear of the shattering or disintegration of one's constructed sense of lovability, capability, and worthiness.
Some of the most famous fear of all time:
"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."
---- Francis Bacon
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."
--- H.P. Lovecraft
"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."
---- Coleridge
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that
brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass
over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner
eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only
I will remain."
--- Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
"A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises."
---- Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris (414-12 BC)
"He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all"
---- James Graham - Marquis of Montrose
"I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me."
---- Will - Macbeth
"Being frightened is an experience you can't buy."
---- Anthony Price - Sion Crossing (1984)
"What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope."
---- Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings (1st C B.C.)
"Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need
distraction from anxious, black thoughts."
---- Brigitte Bardot
"Why are we scared to die?
Do any of us remember being
scared when we were born?"
---- Trevor Kay
"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
---- Edgar Watson Howe - Country Town Sayings (1911)
Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it."
---- Lt. John B. Putnam Jr. (1921-1944)
I hope you all have a great day! ;-) Hisis Poe
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| Even the bravest of creatures have some fears, but it is not enough to stop them from moving in the path they are destined to walk upon. |
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