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Your Fear is Telling You What You Love
It feels bad but it's good
This fear thing is annoying. It gets in the way of living. So many things to fear so little time to do it.
You see fear as the enemy and want to fight it as hard as you can. So many of us have it hanging over us. Lurking not far away. For some a constant companion, an irritating troublesome enemy.
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”― Plato
What if there is a positive out of all this fear?
What are our biggest fears?
According to Medicinenet.com, our biggest fear as humans is Claustrophobia the fear of being in constricted, confined spaces. The list of 10 includes Zoophobia, basically, the fear of certain animals put into a broad category Brontophobia the fear of thunder and thunderstorms and also Acrophobia the fear of heights.
On the other hand, it is believed that we are born with only two innate fears. The fear of falling and the fear of loud sounds. Almost all the other fears are “learned” fears.
Good and Bad fear
Fear can be judged as rational and appropriate or as irrational and inappropriate. Good fear is a rational fear. It could…