Fear is an assumption
that you are about to experience in the future,
through your senses or imagination, real or imagined,
more drawbacks than benefits, more negatives than positives,
more pains than pleasures, more disadvantages than advantages,
more losses than gains,
more challenges than opportunities,
from somebody or yourself or some environment.
So it's an assumption of a one-sided poll of more drawbacks than
benefits, that's about to occur.
And it initiates inside our brain
and nervous system an autonomic response of fight or flight generally,
or in extreme cases, maybe freeze, but it will make us either,
if we think we can defend it,
fight against whatever this fear is we'll tackle it, if we think we can't,
we'll withdraw from it or freeze. But it's a perception,
an assumption that there's going to be more drawbacks than benefits.
And I'd like to make a statement about that.
I don't know if this is one of your questions, but
studying fear, there's a number of basic sources of it,
but there's two primary ones.
And because of our animal nature and our sub-cortical
brain responses that are still within us, like in the animals,
in the food chain below us,
we seek prey for food and we avoid predator
because we could be eaten.
So the perception of loss of that which we
seek, which is food, the perception of loss that
which is starvation, is a fear.
And the perception of gain of that which we're trying to avoid,
which is being eaten, is a fear.
So there's two primary fears that all fears, every fear in our life,
all revolve around two forms,
the fear of loss of that which we seek and the fear of gain of that which we're
trying to avoid. Now,
anything that we seek is something that supports our values.
Food is something that supports our values, is anabolic.
Anything that challenges our values, we try to avoid.
Our animal nature wants to avoid predator and seek prey.
Therefore it wants to avoid pain, seek pleasure, it's a hedonistic construct.
So anything that we perceive that supports what we value,
anything that allows us to survive as a mortal surviving creature,
that we fear the loss of, can become frightening.
Anything that could stop us from surviving, so attacking us,
challenging us, the fear of gaining of that will do that.
Now there are seven areas of life
that we can categorize life into.
Although many thought leaders have done different categories, I use seven.
That's our spiritual quest, a desire for a living an inspired mission.
Our mental quest, our desire to wake up our innovation, creativity, and genius,
and be intelligent. Our business quest,
to be able to contribute a service to people and generate income as a business.
Our financial quest, to be able to build financial independence.
Our family quest,
to be able to have love and intimacy and family and partnership.
Our social quest for social influence and power and making a difference.
And our physical quest for physical wellbeing, beauty,
and you might say, attractiveness and vitality.
In the process of doing that,
all those seven areas all because we have a mission to fulfill
those, anything that helps us fulfill that,
that supports that objective that we lose,
is going to be frightening. Any of those things that can challenge that,
that we could gain, that could challenge that,
gain the challenges that could threaten those, we can have fear of.
So the Corona virus could be a challenge to us in business,
could be a challenge to us in finance.
It could be a challenge to us physically. It's now in some degree,
isolated in the sense of challenging us socially,
and it could affect because we're such close quarters and we're not possibly
used to that, could cause challenges in the relationship.
And we could start losing,
if we have a delusionary faith that somehow the supernatural force is supposed
to protect us from that we could have a loss of what we have a belief system
about our spiritual quest. So we can,
as a result of this scenario,
because of our perceptions add to the idea of fear
associated with all those.
It all boils down to how are we perceive things though,
because our fear is a perception, an assumption of perception.
An assumption we're about to receive more drawbacks than benefits.
And that's the key, that we have in our capacity to change our perception.
Now we've had situations in life that we thought were terrible and we assumed
the worst and they didn't turn out to be what we thought.
And I'm pretty sure that most people who's listening, who are listening,
have had moments where they've had assumptions
and they were frightened about something that didn't turn out to be the case.
And we have what is called false positives,
assuming something's there when it's not.
So many of the fears are false,
false evidence appearing real F E A R some people call it.
And some may be real, some may be more threatening,
but fear is an assumption that we're about to experience in the future,
through our real senses or imagination, most imagined,
more drawbacks than benefits, more losses than gains.
But I wanted to develop it that into those areas to see that there's a lot of
different aspects of fear, but they boil down to,
to the perception of loss of that which we seek,
the perception of gain of that which we try to avoid,
in any of those seven areas of life.
So it really is looking like there's 14 variations in those seven areas,
the loss of something we want in those areas or the perception of gain of that
which we don't want in those areas,
all of those can initiate fear and compound and superimposed on top of each
other and escalate and become associated over time and
become anxious driven. So
it's all our perception.
The one thing about a human being is we have self-reflection and we have
self-governance and the capacity to change our perceptions.
Some animals are living by trial and error,
and they're living by impulses and instincts,
but we also have the capacity with our intuition to alter the ratios of our
perceptions and change things. Anaxagoras, 2,600
and something years ago said that,
pain and pleasure,
phobia and philia are a result of
lopsided perceptions. And it's still accurate today,
even though 2600 years have passed by.
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