Can we consider that our Fear Is Our Friend?
Fear is a natural emotion. It is built into us at the cellular level. Most fears are learned responses. Fear that is continually repressed becomes panic, a very unnatural emotion. Fear is the second most powerful of all the emotions, ranked only behind love. In truth, fear and love is the same thing. All fear is an expression of love of life, love of the self and love of others. If we didn't love life, the self, or others (in other words, if we didn't care about anyone or anything), we would be afraid of nothing. We would not even be concerned with our own survival.
This happens, in fact, to seem true to many people much of the time. To them it seems that life in the physical can offer very little that comes close to what life after death offers. Yet this is not because life in the physical is inherently inferior, but rather, because our understanding of life in the physical is often insufficient to allow it to provide us with the joys and rewards of life in the non-physical, or spiritual, realm.
For now, know that fear is a natural emotion. Translated with emotional maturity and intelligence, it becomes the caution that tells us to look both ways before crossing the street. Yet fear that does not translate into simple caution can cause us to be paralyzed on the corner, even when no cars are coming. A car, after all, might come. Something, after all, could happen. And so, we will be afraid of our own shadow, scared to venture out into life.
As fear is so intertwined with opportunity, it's often a sign of good things to come if you make the right choices. Fear is perhaps your most familiar "friend." So the next time you're faced with a big opportunity, and you feel the fear build up inside of you, smile and greet it. Then look just beyond it, and you might see an opportunity you can't refuse. In order to get to that opportunity, there's only one way to go—right through the heart of the associated fear.
* Fear motivates us to action.
* Fear lets you know you are alive.
* Fear can guide you towards what’s important for you; motivate you to take action to improve your odds.
* Fear Means Opportunity - If you're afraid, take notice. You could be facing the opportunity of a lifetime. There’s a big difference between "pure" fears—like when you believe your life is in danger—and the more common, harmless fear.
Why is it that people tend to be more scared or nervous around people they like the most? It's because the stakes are higher. This type of "opportunity fear" comes from uncertainty.
Surrendering to what is powerful, because as long as we try to change what is, we are in war with reality. We want control and predictability, even though it’s impossible to get. Where we don’t have control, we experience fear. But is it possible to ever have control? Even if you can swim, you can drown.
Source: http://spiritualharmonics.blogspot.ca/2011/03/make-fear-your-friend.html
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.... ;)) indeed ... we are our worse enemy ... ;))
Pema Chodron said,
"No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear. We are very rarely told to move closer, to just be there, to become familiar with fear, the Zen master Kobun Chino Roshi how he related with fear, and he said, 'I agree, I agree.' We don't need that kind of encouragement, because dissociating with fear is what we do naturally. We habitually spin off and freak out when there's even the merest hint of fear. We feel it coming and we check out. It's good to know we do that––not as a way to beat ourselves up, but as a way to develop unconditional compassion. The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.
Sometimes, however, we are cornered; everything falls apart, and we run out of options for escape. At times like that, the most profound spiritual truths seem pretty straightforward and ordinary. There's nowhere to hide. We see it as well as anyone else––better than anyone else. Sooner or later we understand that although we can't make fear look pretty, it will nevertheless introduce us to all the teaching we've ever heard or read.
So the next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky."
Thanks Luke ... ;))
Love is abundance of information, positive attraction. Fear is lack thereof, negative repulsion.
As source, there isn't really all that much love, since love, to some degree, is enhanced by fear. Like the human's curiosity on its self discovery as Source. As this lacking sensation, like there's something missing, pushing them forward into discover themselves between each other.
As I always say, you wouldn't enjoy the warming fire as much, if not for the cold night.
But now you take out the fear, the night, and we have a lot of beings with the same face, knowing everything about each other, without any motivation. Without any emotional response even. Sitting there without anything to do at all. Stagnant cosmic flow.
Originally, as Source, there is nothing missing. But also there's nothing to experience with, either. But, with this dissociation, know as fear, we're able to create difference between the same being, division, and thus, experience. Rediscovering itself.
You forget everything about your favorite infinite story, so you can read it again. And again, and again... over, and over and over... and over again. Hahahahahahaha!!!!
Do you see how fear actually works?
Thanks for sharing ... ;))