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What is Fear?

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Author: Brian Maxwell

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The medical definition of fear is a chain reaction in the brain that starts with stressful stimulus and ends with the release of chemicals that cause a racing heart, fast breathing and energized muscles, among other things, also known as the fight or flight response. The stimulus could be a spider, a knife at your throat, an auditorium full of people waiting for you to speak or the sudden thud of your front door against the door frame. The process of creating fear begins with a scary stimulus and ends with the fight-or-flight response. But there are at least two paths between the start and the end process. Let’s take a closer look at how fear is created.

What Causes Fear? While it is important to be aware of potential and real threats, it is as important to react appropriately to them. For most of us, our initial startle response calms as soon as we realize that there is no actual threat or danger. There are many for who fear became maladaptive, because of this they struggle with anxiety, phobias and panic attacks.

What forms do fears take?

Fears come in a number of packages for people who have low self-esteem, such as the fear of:

*places: school, church, crowds, planes or enclosed places & heights above or below ground
*animals: snakes, rats, mice
*objects: guns, knives, computers
*people: men or women, strangers, pleasing others, losing others
*events: nuclear holocaust, war, crime
*atmosphere: dark, shadowy, gloomy, being alone, strange or unknown setting
*family member: getting ill, being lost, running away
*disaster: fire, hurricane, lightening, losing job or being fired, injury or pain, death
*reactions or responses to self: rejection, disapproval, not being liked, disappointing others, being ignored, being the real “YOU”
*Feelings about oneself: guilt, unworthy, unstable, weak, useless, unwanted
*The unknown: new things, technology, change, making decisions, growing old, retirement, inactivity

What are some negative consequences of fear?

Fear can:  Immobilize decision making. Prevent you from overcoming your insecurity, prevent you from trusting others, and prevent you from love.
Fear that is excessive can become crippling, and even make you feel like escaping when it’s not appropriate to do so. When fear gets out of control, or when we fear something that cannot actually harm us, it can escalate to a point where it will become apparent in our daily activities. Fear is no longer modifiable if we are constantly afraid of events that haven’t happened yet. Future-oriented fear is known as anxiety. While fear happens at the moment danger arises, anxiety is characterized by apprehension because we’re unsure about what’s going to happen and unaware of your gift to attract your desired life by thinking and acting in a Certain Way.

Fear is merely an emotion, a very strong emotion to be sure, but simply an emotion. Fear helps us avoid dangerous situations while we are children. As we mature into adulthood self-empowerment suggests we examine our fears. Do our fears serve us or hinder us? Many of us live each day moving from one fear to another, without realizing its impact and effect on our lives. Fear robs us of our creativity. While in a state of fear, our body deploys its resources to deal with the feared event, making it difficult to focus on anything else. All who have feared for the health and the survival of a loved one or have feared a life changing event has experienced this. It seems difficult to be positive, creative, and energetic while watching severe weather or at the bedside of an ill loved one.

Excessive focus on a feared event will attract to us exactly the event which we fear. This is the Law of Attraction: what we focus on we create. We will go more into the Law of Attraction later in this course. Our thoughts send off a frequency a vibration of energy that attracts events of similar frequency. We lose a wonderful gift when we focus on a feared future event, the “present”. Since feared events are always future events, when you focus on fears you fail to appreciate the present (Gift) moment. Unfortunately, you’re missing the beauty of life one second at a time. Life is the present (pre-sent), it is the (NOW). All we ever have is the pre-sent (NOW). That is the gift of life. The past is over; the experience we carry with us. The future is uncertain to the unconscious while the future is created by the consciously aware beings. Fear is like sitting in a rocking chair; you use a lot of energy but you never get anywhere. The Jedi Master Yoda so wisely tells us “Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate and hate leads to suffering.” Today’s the day you decide that enough is enough; and make the choice that you you’ll live your life with purpose rather than fear. Make the choice to live a life filled with love, joy, and happiness.

To free yourself from your fears these tips should help:

 Remind yourself that F.E.A.R is (False Evidence Appearing Real)

Feel yourself “Being” Courageous

Declare out loud that you are releasing this fear from your mind

Create positive thoughts

If you succumb to your fears they will prevent you from reaching your full potential. Once you face your fear, the origin of your fear, and the likelihood of it manifesting, you will move toward your goals without the road blocks of unnecessary fear.

For more information please visit: http://www.newthoughtgeneration.com

Think Big!
Brian Maxwell

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"New Thought Author - Brian Maxwell" has rapidly become one of the leading authorities and expert of the Law of Attraction and Wealth Manifestation. How to Overcome Fear and Create Fortune provides thought strategies and Manifestation techniques from the New Thought Movement of the 19th Century and incorporated them with 21st Century situations. This book is changing the lives of all who read its pages.

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