Feeling Fear

Fear is a powerful emotion, and it can be used to control the mind in good ways and bad. Sometimes it seems as though we have been so conditioned to feel fear throughout our lives we have no idea how much we are letting it impact on our day to day, even thinking in fear mode with everything we do. Yes, there is an underlying biological need for fear in order to survive but this is a more conscious yet surreptitious version linked with control rather than survival.

Trying to break out of fear is like this may feel like trying to break an addiction, at every turn it is there ready to tempt you, once again, back into its comforting arms of dominance. In rebelling from it you can end up in no mans land, limbo, and inadvertently fulfilling the fearful prophecies uttered by so many.

So is it possible to happily move out of a fearful mindset? Perhaps so, by only focusing on the positive emotions that come out of fear; like how it can drive focus and ambition and it's adrenaline fuelled buzz of excitement. But doing this may also lead to being irresponsible and having a lack of empathy for others, therefore implementing one fundamental element could be the key - always following and trusting your own core values, those that celebrate all of the good in your heart - then you no longer have to live by the control of 'the fear factor' and can make way for so many other beautiful emotions instead; and perhaps live by the best constraints of both worlds?

'Feeling Fear' 2014