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2007-10-21 03:10:30 · 17 answers · asked by Third P 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Very good question!!
Fear is a natural defense mechanism that Mother nature has provided to living beings for survival... in the absence of any fear, we are prone to take undue risks and court undue dangers.
However, fear can be even fatal in itself if allowed to take psychologically damaging dimensions. Such acute fear is sustained in our mind due to ignorance and uncertainty. The way to get over it is to deal with it through acquisition of relevant knowledge and experience. If the fear is totally unfounded and entirely imagination based, then the answer lies in shelving it for a while and getting engaged in physical activities or security-oriented ways like being among our near and dear people or familiar and secure environment..... time being a great healer, such unfounded fear would disappear on its own in due course when we spend more and more time in secure surroundings..... it may still resurface at bed-time because in sleep we are all by ourselves..... in such a situation, it is faith(either in God or a Supreme Savior or parents or beloved or even a teddy-bear, etc.) that gives us the feeling of ultimate security to overcome the worst fear-obsession.
Hope this makes sense.
2007-10-21 19:10:19 · answer #1 · answered by small 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Fear is an emotional energy, like nervousness, love, joy, anger and hope are emotional energies. Fear will either lock you in place or force you to find they way out.
I survive fear by always moving - mentally, physically and emotionally. I compare fear to a rip in the ocean, if you do nothing, it will suck you out to sea. If you swim against it, you may beat it and yet are more likely to exhaust yourself and possibly drown in fear. If you swim with it, you will only get further away from safety quicker.
However, if you swim across it, side-step it, dodge it, then you can break free of it. We all tend to think laterally and as such do not see the sideways choices that we all have.
Don't fight or flee, remove yourself from it. Let it pass by you. Find the other alternative. Its there. Then you become the observer and you can learn where your fears come from, and why.
2007-10-22 16:52:27 · answer #2 · answered by labrug 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You cannot survive it. Your experience is a mirror of what you believe there is to fear, so it has to be dismantled, traced to its origin, pulled out by the roots and discarded.
Start by feeling it. Is it unexpressed anxiety that needs validation? Then become fully conscious of it - when you get the slightest physical twinge - identify it, label it, feel it, trace it to it's earliest source and exaggerate the physical reaction in the now. Validate now, what was not validated originally by others. If you repeat this it will gradually dissipate. The source or origin also has to contemplated, examined, felt and reframed in the light of adult reason, until the present fear no longer exists, i.e. the electrochemical reaction at the body level.
Otherwise it interferes with the field you naturally generate that attracts the experiences you authentically want and need.
2007-10-21 09:10:22 · answer #3 · answered by MysticMaze 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't. There is nothing intrinsically wrong with any emotion, what could possible become problematic is the object of that emotion. For example two people are on an Alaskan fishing trip, one is afraid of brown bears, and the other is afraid of teddy bears. Both have the same emotion, but they are manifested in different objects. For the person that has the fear in the brown bear that will probably help to save her life. Without fear one would die very quickly.
2007-10-21 04:11:31 · answer #4 · answered by spartanmike 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A philosopher king by definition is a just man who rules out of a sense of obligation. He knows that if he does not rule, a worse man will. He doesn't rule for fear of being killed. If he didn't rule, he wouldn't be killed, he could just go live in a democracy (a Socratic democracy, that is) where people would leave him alone. It actually says that in the Republic (somewhere near the end, but I forget the Stephanus number, sorry).
2016-05-24 00:18:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some fear is normal, as touching a hot stove(we have a normal fear of being burned) but to overcome the fears of life (absence of money, shelter, rejection,etc.) I try to go over the worst possible thing that could happen and go ahead and face it mentally. What's the worst that could happen-death- and if that happened I really have no control over it anyway, do I? Self-discipline and experience contribute to the ability to look fear in the face and to triumphantly march on.
2007-10-21 03:23:58 · answer #6 · answered by luminous 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
For me it's a non-issue.
"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."
Doug
2007-10-21 03:21:23 · answer #7 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
We learn from it. We can't survive it unless we face it. We know that we're just humans when we're afraid. Trying to avoid our fears would only make our fears worse.
2007-10-21 03:31:09 · answer #8 · answered by Green Phantom 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
completely forget about it and focus on whats at hand. After you have become safe again then you look in hindsight and see your no longer have that fear. sometimes listen to it, it can save you from so much. If neccesary harness it use to help you not hinder you.
2007-10-24 12:23:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Self control.
Mind-over matter experience.
Focus.
I have used these formula when I was kept hostaged by 3 men in our house last December 16, 2006.
2007-10-21 03:28:26 · answer #10 · answered by maconsolviaa 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋