How to deal with the fear? Meh! I ignore it really, unless it is generated by spiders.
On 16 July, 07:29, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > We must all face the fact that there is always the potential reality > that the worst can happen. I often look back through history to get a > clear picture of how humanity sometimes collides with horror and see > that death and suffering can just be a fleeting moment, and then life > moves on. I think of all those who suffered and died in natural > disasters and human atrocities, what pain they must have endured till > the end. Upon acceptance of all that, I see the future as being open > to any and all possibility and therefore fear takes the back seat, > fear won't accomplish anything except wasting the time you spend > living with it. > > Yes I know about fear being part of the survival mechanism blah blah > blah. > > Point is, I could be homeless tomorrow, living on the street > scrounging through dumpsters for a scrap of food or I could win the > lotto and become a multi-millionaire and all between those too > extremes. Be thankful for what you have because it can always be > worse than it is. > > On Jul 15, 11:43 am, gruff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Industries and markets rise and fall on confidence. Confidence rises > > and falls on perceived instability. The keyword is perceived which > > frequently, having no relation to reality, causes skewed results in > > the marketplace and on the hearth. The antithesis of confidence is > > fear which even moreso rises and falls on perceptions. > > > So what do we do? Convince ourselves there is nothing to be afraid > > of? I think not. That's a foolish approach since there are very real > > threats in the world. Convince ourselves that we can handle whatever > > it is we fear? That sounds a bit better but still bound by lack of > > face to face reality to a large degree. My own method is to just put > > fear out of my mind and go blithely forth to whatever awaits if I > > must. That also is the playground of fools. > > > There has to be a mindset wherein one feels comfortable facing the > > unknown that is a rational confrontation, where one can feel the > > breadth and depth of the fear without caving under it's enormous > > threat and reacting instinctively, where rational analysis can reveal > > a truer nature of the perceived threat which may prove not be a threat > > at all since it seems most of the things we fear most are those we > > create in our own minds and hearts and exist nowhere else but there.- Hide > > quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
