Fear is Nothing More Than False Evidence Appearing Real
by While some fears are healthy and are what keeps us alive, known as the fight or flight approach, many irrational fears are not. Many lives are ruined by fear of one thing or another. People often feel that their only option is to go through life popping pills and potions in a bid to numb their senses. This approach only serves to; put off the inevitable panic attack, or to live only half a life in a self imposed prison.
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FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real
Papering over the cracks isn’t a solution, the only way to get over these fears is to seek them out from where they originated and confront them head on. Scary isn’t it? Yes it is scary, but like many things we dread doing or facing, it’s never as bad as you expect it to be. In fact did you know that 90% of all we worry about never actually comes true? Isn’t that just an outstanding fact? If you look back at your life how many hours, days, weeks, months or even years of worrying does that add up to? How much time is wasted worrying about things that will never happen? Ok if the worst thing imaginable does happen, what do we do? We get on with things, we deal with them the best way we can. Look back at how many times you have come through a really tough situation. Use this knowledge as your armour whenever you have to face doing something scary.
Some fears are generalised, these types of people may be known as “born worriers” it’s not that they are scared of anything specific happening; they just always expect the worst to happen in any given situation. Other people have specific fears such as; agoraphobia – a fear of open spaces or Claustrophobia – a fear of confined spaces.
Some of these fears have their roots in things that happened to us in the past, for example slipping under the bath water as an infant may manifest as a fear of water in later years. If we can trace these fears back then that is a good thing, as it grounds them so they no longer have power over us now. To confront a fear of water you could take swimming lessons from an expert used to dealing with this type of issue.
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Post Commentrajeev bhargava
On March 12, 2009 at 9:56 am
a thoroughly enjoyable article to read. SUPERB!
kate smedley
On March 12, 2009 at 11:13 am
Excellent article, I’ve heard this acronym before, thank you for sharing.
CHAN LEE PENG
On March 12, 2009 at 7:07 pm
You’re right! But in medical and psychology perspective, you can find FEAR exists in “-phobia” which is not really good.
Edward J Rodrigues
On March 13, 2009 at 12:36 am
Someone had said, Fear knocked on the door, faith opened and no one was there…
Claudette Jones
On March 13, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Article is so true. It’s funny that I was talking with a friend this morning about her fear of animals (all animals). Something that I, as an animal lover, find extremely sad. She said her fear stemmed from a nightmare she had as a youngster about being knocked down by hundreds of puppies that she felt was trying to hurt her. I believe some version of this dream really happened, and the nightmare came later, but she was too young to remember the event. So sad that such a fear would keep her from enjoying the love and friendship of any of the beautiful animals in the world.