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Published by Nitin Shah [nitin_shah] on 2008/11/1 (478 reads)

Exercises to overcome fear

1. Meditation to overcome fear and anxiety

Sit with closed eyes in the early morning. Meditate on courage, the opposite of fear, for half an hour. Think of the advantages of courage and the disadvantages of fear. Practice the virtue during the day. Feel that you actually possess courage to an enormous degree. Manifest it in your daily life. In some weeks or months fear will be replaced by courage. Repeat the formula "Om courage" mentally, daily several times.

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Published by Nitin Shah [nitin_shah] on 2008/11/1 (730 reads)

The following is a list of possible symptoms that may surface when a person is anxious or fearful:

 

Physical

Behavioral

Tightness in chest

Sleep disturbances

Tightness in throat

Appetite disturbances

Oversensitivity to noise

Absentmindedness

Depersonalization

Social withdrawal

Breathlessness

Dreams of deceased

Weakness in muscles

Avoidance of reminders

Lack of energy

Searching/Calling out

Dry mouth

Restless over-activity

Hollowness in stomach

Crying

Sighing

Clinging to reminders

 

Treasuring objects

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Published by Nitin Shah [nitin_shah] on 2008/11/1 (306 reads)

A. Imaginary fear 

1. Get to know your fears:

Logically, to overcome your fears, you have to be aware of their existence first. The maximum denial and non-aware ignorance can offer you is a kind of satisfaction of not having it worse.

Ask yourself: What is that I want?

 

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Published by Nitin Shah [nitin_shah] on 2008/11/1 (401 reads)

Fear

Fear is an unpleasant feeling of perceived risk or danger, real or not. Fear also can be described as a feeling of extreme dislike to some conditions/objects, such as: fear of darkness, fear of ghosts, etc. It is one of the basic emotions.

Fear is "an unpleasant and often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger."[1] Fear is completely natural and helps people to recognize and respond to dangerous situations and threats. However, healthy fear -- or fear which has a protective function -- can evolve into unhealthy or pathological fear, which can lead to exaggerated and violent behavior.

The origin of most neurotic fears can be traced to childhood. The seeds of fear may lie dormant in childhood in the subconscious mind. They sprout forth after some time during some period of crisis or stress.

Anxiety and worry are the effects of fear. Some sort of fear gets buried in the subconscious mind. So man worries himself. There is continued strain and tension in the mind. If the fear is released or dispelled, he will have peace of mind.

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Published by Nitin Shah [nitin_shah] on 2008/11/1 (402 reads)
  1. A feeling of separateness increases our fear. When we feel close to people and nature we cannot easily fear them. Fear results from a feeling of alienation, which manifests a general feeling of suspicion of all and everything.
  2. Unfamiliarity with people and things also causes suspicion and fear. When we come in contact with someone who dresses or behaves differently from what we are accustomed, our security base is undermined and we often react with caution and perhaps defensive or offensive behavior.
  3. Attachment to people and objects related to our security cause to fear and play power games in order to protect our possessions, relationships or self-image when we suspect we are in danger of losing them.
  4. Imagination can create images of doom and suffering far beyond any physical reality or likelihood. Imagination in itself is not negative. It is misused by the fear complex of: alienation, unfamiliarity, vulnerability, mistrust and attachment.
  5. Emotionally charged memory of previous negative experiences, where we have either witnessed or suffered harm, loss or death provokes fear. Our subconscious mind stores memories of such unpleasant experiences from the past. We also carry within us instinctual fear complexes resulting from our evolution through the animal kingdom. Thus, we project onto the present and future what we have experienced in the past, generating a distorted perception of reality.
  6. Feeling of inferiority is another cause of fear.. This negative feeling produces lack of self-reliance or self-confidence in man. He is afraid of those who are superior to him in talents, power, position and efficiency. He feels that he is incapable of doing anything.
  7. Some physical deformity or deficiency, lack of physical and mental efficiency, wrong training in children, are other causes of fear.
  8. Conflict is often driven by unfulfilled needs and the fears related to these needs. The most common fear in intractable conflict is the fear of losing one's identity and/or security. Individuals and groups identify themselves in certain ways (based on culture, language, race, religion, etc.) and threats to those identities arouse very real fears -- fears of extinction, fears of the future, fears of oppression, etc.
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