"Fear is an emotional response induced by a perceived threat, which causes a change in the brain and organ function, as well as in behavior. Fear can lead us to hide, to run away, or to freeze in our shoes. Fear may arise from a confrontation or from avoiding a threat, or it may come in the form of a discovery."
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I have two types of fear. There’s the spider and needles and then there’s the fear of disappointing your family and fear of losing someone you love. I'm scared of leading a selfish life too.
This is me in Kenya. I am standing somewhere I shouldn't be standing at all. I went out to chill with the wild animals. No lion got me, luckily. The only animal that ruined this trip was a poisonous sea urchin.
I asked 35 people what they feared, here is what they said:
Spiders (5)
Car accidents (This is from a guy that is a pro skydiver.)
Loneliness
The future and the world's future
Diseases
My kids getting sick or harmed
Hamsters (scared to death) and ladies (This is a grown man with a beard.)
My girlfriend. No, I can’t say that. Spiders, small ones especially.
Horses and heights – and high horses!
My kids in the traffic
Antibiotic resistant bacteria and high speed
Flying, spiders and getting fired
Wasps
Spiders and needles
My mother in law (This guys wanted to be anonymous.)
Spiders and balloons. (This mother of two has a hard time at birthday parties.)
The dentist, wasps and spiders
Dying
Drunk, old ladies at the bus
Spiders, losing my mom or getting robbed
Scary people in the dark
Heights
Heights, the dentist and my daughter getting sick again
Donald Trump and heights
Ticks and ….. strawberries (I went to school with this girl, she is even afraid of the word strawberry.)
Turning blind or deaf
Horses and living a life without purpose and fulfilment
No women answered “nothing”, but four men answered that they weren't scared of anything.
Why spiders?
Why do we fear these small assholes with eight legs and fury bodies? At least in Norway, they’re not dangerous. It seems like a lot of the people I talked to are suffering from arachnophobia, myself included. I mean, I’m not very scared. I do kill them when I have to, without screaming. But they freak me out. They are very unpredictable and I’m a control freak.
What are your fears?
Susanne
Fears
I Hate To Say
I have Fears
I Would Choose To Conquer Them
Getting Old?
I Am Going To Drink Juice Today
And Conquer It, I Choose To Get Younger
Paint My Nails
Wear A Pretty Top And All
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Sharks... I'm terrified of being stranded in open water with sharks swirling below my dangling feet...
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I don't like that thought either. :)
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I love spiders! and needles! Stop talking about them because I have nothing about. Maybe I should extract spiders and inject them. Or maybe spider's needles themselves will sate my need.
So to add to your list, what I am afraid of most: To be afraid of anything more than God. Hm, is this ironic? No, I always keep it in my mind because I know some day the light will go out and I will have to face it, and I don't want to have forgotten for too long that there is nothing else to fear.
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Extract spiders and inject them into yourself? Eeeeew!!! Ha ha
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I fear of over indulging monkey mind or bandit.
There is the True Self, which is part of us that has always been. Even when we were children. It is the I in us. We all have this Self. It is not made of memory or experience like the ego or monkey. The ego or monkey is something that we all need a bit of as it allows us to go out in the world and survive. It hopes it wants. However, having the monkey mind as a master is brutal and tragic.
This strange modern culture nurtures monkey mind and generally ignores care and growth of the true self. The monkey mind or ego, chatters at us. Trying to get our True Self to indulge its story. Often these are thoughts and stories we’ve already gone through many times before. The monkey always repeats its stories. It knows our fears, hopes and worries and uses these to lure us in to a a self-indulgent story. If we go with the monkey mind, it tells us crazy stories, using memories and experience convince us what it is saying is true. This generates feelings both good and bad that we can tend to identify with. We can then make the mistake that we are our feelings.
I'm in no way suggesting that feeling or emotions are not important. But that their main use is when are experiencing something in the moment. Read in the Now, they are valid indicators of an experience. Just as we experience warmth on a summer day so we experience our feelings and thoughts. It's the game of the monkey to trick us into thinking we are our thoughts. When we fall for it then we lose the clarity of the moment. The place where the true conscious self dwells. By losing the moment we lose choice. We give up our creative nature as beings. The monkey mind uses emotions to take away the Moment.
So when I'd go with that rambling story of the monkey mind I'd be left feeling down. All the while thinking at the time these feelings or thoughts are me. I'm identified with the thoughts and feelings when in fact it was generated not by anything in the now, but by the monkey using memories. If I start hearing the chatter now I say to the monkey hear you and acknowledge and love you but I can't go with you. This can take quite a bit of effort sometimes. With persistence the monkey quiets down. I've gotten better at catching the monkey and it has made a huge difference in my perception. Fears and worries are of no use unless we are actively engaging solutions. Our thoughts should be appropriate with our actions. We must be careful to not day dream with the monkey about worries fears and hopes.
This way I better retain time with my true self. My memories and feeling are no longer something driving me all about so much. They become valuable data which allow me to better navigate the moment. ;)
My fear is to allow the monkey to take too much time from me. I do my best to stay here and now.
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