fear. again.

[ajpu]

... about two thirds of our daily thoughts are fear-based. While fear is useful for self-protective measures, to keep you alive, it also gets in the way, as has been talked about before, many times... I wonder if I'm challenging myself enough to confront fear. And because I need to wonder about it, I'm probably not

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[dace]

Every emotion has usefulness. Fear is a primitive way of responding to a situation that your don't know how to handle. And when you don't know how to handle a threatening situation, fear may be the best response you have available to you. The process of intentionally overcoming fear involves a greater understanding of that which you are afraid of. If you understand something well enough, you can embrace it or sublimate it into something that you can embrace or into nothing at all. That's really the ultimate thing, right?

Mistakes can be useful for learning (cause that's where new ideas come from), and overcoming the fear of making them is very helping in doing so (because it keeps the focus on what want, as opposed to what you don't). But ultimately, you're going to learn more from your (and other people's) successes.

[ajpu]

(it will be fun to respond to each sentence individually... your responses are so full of "know-it-all-ness"... this is my attempt to build on that, as your intentions are to be helpful, I assume

[ajpu]

I'm thinking the fear of success is like an umbrella fear, and there are lots of bits, more specific fears, that I could recognize little by little, break it down into manageable parts.

And, of course, there's always the unseen "magic" at work. The progress we make that we are unaware of, simply by being a part of a whole in and of ourselves.

(...I'm feeling so spiritual)

[dace]

Do you think you have a fear of not being awesome enough? How do you feel about the idea of being smaller than others? Is there a fear of not being equal or not being able to identify with others?