How do we get people to distinguish between living with a heightened awareness and being fearfully paranoid?

Question

Education is paramount when it comes to being able to fix the problems plaguing us in today's world. However, environmental issues such as global warming, issues over the war in Iraq, terrorism, and problems regarding health and personal safety are difficult for people to evaluate without feeling the fear of what they know. The fear can even become the source of apathy. People often believe what you don't know won't hurt you, but it can. You must somehow develop the ability to distinguish between living with a heightened awareness of circumstances without becoming too afraid and paranoid as well as ensuring others don't quickly call you paranoid because of what you know but they do not. But that doesn't answer my question. How do we get people to distinguish between living with a heightened awareness and being fearfully paranoid?

Answer 1

The same way that we teach our children to be aware of people that they don't know with out making them afraid to go out side.
You let them know what the dangers are you teach them things that will help give them some control and than you pray they never have to use them.
There isn't much more that you can do but that. When my daughter's were very small, I sat them down and explained to them about people who might mean them harm, I gave them a couple of things that would enable them to feel in some sort of control. I told that that they could say no to an adult if they felt uncomfortable with what the adult wanted them to do. I told them that they could yell an scream at an adult to enable them to get away. I also gave them a password that only they and I would know in case I had to send someone they weren't expecting to pick them up from school and everyone even my father had to use the word if he didn't they didn't leave with him. This was to get them in the habit of using the word so that if it ever was some one they didn't know well they would remember to ask for the word. This is the same sort of thing we have to do as a society be prepared and know what your options are and than pray that you never need to use it.

Answer 2

We can't, because we're being too left brained and the two have become married causing circular reasoning and we are hardly going anywhere due to that. The happpiest people on earth are perhaps Mother Teresa's helpers as they are actually doing something about things. If we're getting enough results using our method, we'd be the happiest most positive person, never a discouraging word, you might say.
Why do we marvel at that. Because life is apparent contradictions/absolutes. We have to be absolutely nuetral, even positive, objective and that gets us absolutely in tune with the right hemisphere, justly called right. The right's full time job is to anwer questions. Ours is to get the data for the right and the left asks questions. The left mostly looks at negatives and is relatively sad or depressed most of the time, but the right brain is too busy looking at answers and approximately a million times faster or has that much more capacity. Only the absolute use of positive descriptive words get us in touch with that kind of mental power. We can go around the world to get to the store or turn right and it's a block away. They both work so they're both right, just one is more effective than the other. We know the problems. Forget 'em. Work on the solutions. Current science has found this and I have a little more information, but the left brain, reason, can get it hardly at all. The methods it uses will take another seven thousand years. If we get that mantra in our heads and keep repeating it we'll be going in the right direction or else we will forget it quickly and be going the long way again. People sense that in you intuitively. Do you see that? Click on my logo to see the brucelipton article at his site by that name. There are trillions of things to do, but counting and recounting sins is well covered by others and the only one well done along with other ineffectual directions. Effective truth sets you free from all that.

Answer 3

By pointing out that as many good conditions exist as bad, and heightened awareness includes both.