YOU AND FEAR.
Just about every wrong, just about ever bad deed originates from fear at some level.
Let me explain: Fear is not necessarily obvious to the person experiencing it. The only way you can see its face, very often, (in your own and other people’s behaviour) is in the irrational, illogical and often violent behaviour of those afflicted by it. It can show its face in jealousy, envy, greed, power, control, anger, hate, violence, mental illness, many ordinary illnesses, depression, low self-image etc, etc. The list goes on.
You can even suffer fear, that you, in this life have no knowledge of. It came in with your spirit (soul). A kind of mental scarring of previous terrors and traumas. Previous lifetimes of poverty and want could give rise this lifetime to accumulation (possible greed) and a desire not to throw anything away (to hoard).
We don’t know where we’ve been, what scars it’s left or what price will still have to pay. We come in forgetting and with free choice so learning and progress are always available to us. We understand the open fear: the bully with the fist, the out of control car, the lightening strike and the immediate affect these have on our bodies but it is the subtle fears that are harder, deeper and to deal with these we have to go inward.
The only way you can deal with your own weaknesses (fears) is to be honest with yourself. Really look at yourself. You know when you’re being unreasonable, difficult, awkward or plain belligerent but do you know why? You need to be totally honest with yourself. Look at the things that create a repeating pattern of unreasonable behaviour or anxiety and then try to work out why. Sometimes this is easy, sometimes this is hard. Sometimes it needs working through with loved ones, close friends (people you trust). Usually, if you look deeply enough you will find the answers. If you can’t hypnosis, if it doesn’t frighten you, could be used. It taps into levels of consciousness beyond the norm. My advice would be use a professional, an expert (someone trustworthy). Dabbling can sometimes be harmful. Many of the buttons that create certain automated responses can be found in childhood and early childhood. As children we are very susceptible and sensitive but also remarkably strong and hard-nosed. The memory plays tricks here and can let you down. You certainly can’t remember past life traumas.
The only way to beat fear is to face it. See it, understand it, stand up to it, experience it and then and only then can you move on – let it go. It is always the mind that is frightened so only the mind can release the fear.
It seems to work like this. Once the mind understands the fear and recognises its cause then it can go through the process of releasing it. This may take time and effort on your part (for example a fear of heights, spiders etc) or it may be something that when fully understood can be released quickly. Remembering some forgotten abuse that left its scars etc. Past life regression seems to work this way with past life traumas. Once the trauma is understood, its negative feedback in this life dissipates (hopefully never to reappear). Illnesses, phobias, irrational fears can be healed this way. The mind is a powerful tool.
I could go on for pages about fear and its many faces. We all have fear. We all have the ability to heal our fears. We may not all have the desire. It is a hard road, the inward road.
If you truly want to be a better person and create a better future for yourself you will have to take this road. The beauty of it outweighs the effort.
P.S
If all accepted normal parameters have failed to locate the cause of a fear, consider meditation and prayer (asking for help from the spirit world or God). Meditation is not mystical or magical or hard. It is purely resting your mind (stopping thinking). This can be harder than it sounds. It takes practise. We tend to do it naturally when we are day-dreaming, fishing, etc. It is simply quieting the mind. On a personal level I have always found this very easy to do and I like to spend a lot of time in that place. When I am in the natural world, I find I’m in a meditative state most of the time. In the quiet. It is in the quiet that revelations can come to us, contact from spirit, wisdom beyond the norm. The quiet is also very invigorating, healing (like sleep). I also believe that in the quiet your own world can communicate with you at some kind of energetic level. By your own world I mean nature, the planet and its residents. The animals and plants are much more in this world than we are (we have forgotten, we need to remember). The Psychic world, the connected world, the world of reality and the bigger picture. The world of balance.
The power of prayer which simply means asking for help I shall cover next and will say no more about it here.