"Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real. Mo was terrified, and now Nick was too." ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book -- This is true fear is contagious. It's something worth deeply contemplating. We need not fear, however, because one can also free oneself by recognizing what has happened. Then the contagion comes to an end. Observation is a form of illumination. Fear is a shadow energy and it cannot survive illumination. In other words Franklin D. Roosevelt was right. There is nothing to fear but fear itself. … [click on title for the rest of the post]
Welcome the fear, the anxiety and thus transform it
Anxiety is basically a clinical term for fear which everyone at one time or another experiences with or without a diagnosis of some sort of anxiety “disorder.” Psychiatry pathologizes much of the normal human experience and in opposing fashion fear and/or anxiety is often referred to in Buddhism and other alternative philosophies as normal. A normal form of human suffering. … [click on title for the rest of the post]
Fear is life force… (the clinical term is anxiety)
Fear is life force. We are made to believe it's toxic in spiritual circles but it is intrinsic to biological survival. We are biological. ...
Fear will create all sorts of havoc in the body
Fear will create all sorts of havoc in the body.
Most of us are terrified of being alive...(or alternately terrified of dying, which is the same thing)
I’ve found that as I heal the autonomic nervous system fear is absorbed into the body and slowly dissipates…
Healing the autonomic nervous system has required me to slowly and systematically face the terror of being human... … [click on title for the rest of the post]
Fear and anxiety: coping, reframing, transforming…
Anxiety is basically a clinical term for fear which everyone at one time or another experiences with or without a diagnosis of some sort of anxiety “disorder.” Psychiatry pathologizes much of the normal human experience...
Terror wants to be integrated
Terror wants to be integrated, just like rage. If we're not feeling fear and anger at the state of world something is wrong. Feel your feelings. Let them move through you. This practice will aid in allowing you to become who you are. We block our feelings to our detriment

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