Fear And Anxiety

On this page you will learn about fear and anxiety in quite some detail and how you can stop fear and anxiety attacks in your life.

Authentic Fear And Anxiety

This is when immediate danger in the present moment. This type of fear is a natural (and useful) response and its purpose a positive one which is to keep us safe. It stimulates and motivates us to take swift action but sometimes it can paralyze. Then we learn from this experience.

Imagined Fear And Anxiety

Even though this type of fear and anxiety feels very real to us on the inside, the truth is there is no immediate danger present. Imagined fear can makes us feel almost out of control and almost helpless. It can rob us of mental clarity and sharpness as well as robbing our levels of enthusiasm and wellbeing.

This type of fear is based on imagination not on logic or reason. Our imagination is more powerful than our logic or reason. To prove this to yourself imagine you are in a dark alley late at night when suddenly you hear footsteps urgently approaching you from behind, and your heart beats faster. Now relax completely.

If you felt the physical and mental sensations of that imagined experience then you would realize that even though your logic says ‘this is not really happening’ you still feel the sensations (depending on how much you engaged with the imagining of the experience).

The reason why you would have felt this as real is because the human mind cannot tell the difference between and real or imagined experience.

Often times imagined fear and anxiety is about fearing what could happen in the future. It’s often not about something that happened in the past or even is happening in the present. If you have been experiencing fear and anxiety, you probably soon discovered that logic didn’t help resolve the fear.

Our logic seems to obey our emotions. Even though we know that something is safe, we try to rationalize the reason why we feel the fear, even though the emotion is really running the show.

Mental reasoning or analyzing tends to come from the conscious mind. The conscious mind in simple terms is the mind you actively think with during the day. The conscious mind is not the mind where emotional habits are formed.

Overtime this imagined fear becomes a habit. Any time you were in a situation that you felt fear and anxiety, soon enough the habitual emotion started to fire off. A habit is something we learn earlier on in life and then we carry out that habit without thinking about it anymore.

When you behave in a certain way this then becomes a habit. These habits are stored in the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is your larger mind that processes millions of sensory messages every second and it contains all your intelligence, memories and your wisdom.

The subconscious mind stores and then runs the automatic behaviors or programs that run on autopilot. A habit is like a program running in the mind.

Our unconscious mind creates habits through association. When two things happen simultaneously or in close succession enough times the two things get associated with one another.

So if you programmed associations in your mind (with your imagination) that were negative and counter productive, then a good solution would be to use your imagination again to create a positive scenario and association with the event. Simply rehearse the resourceful state you want in a situation in your mind again and again.

The good thing with habits is that we have to first learn them and anything that the mind, body and emotional system can learn, it can unlearn. You can learn to behave in a new way from now onward through by using your imagination to consciously install the program (habit) you want running in your mind, leaving the old fear and anxiety behind.