Monday, April 30, 2007

Be courageous – win your fears

Before talking about fears, look at famous, historical person Napoleon Bonaparte notion about fear:

“There are two levels for moving men – interest and fear” .

We see, that this person gave a large importance for fear, particularly in men’s life.


Fear is a powerful, unpleasant feeling of risk or danger, either real or imagined. Fear is a very real thought form, we create it. Fear begins from our illusions, where negative entities feed on negative entities. Fear is only one negative energy.


In general it can be classified in three categories
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  1. Fears, connected with survival issues;
  2. Fears, connected with our individual identities;
  3. Fears, connected with our relationships.

There is not category, in which fears is carry – over, like fear of water or of restricted places. These fears can be dealt with our memories of past life.

Scientists classify fears in these three basic categories:

Paranoia is a term used to describe a psychosis of fear, described as a heightened perception of being persecuted, false or otherwise. Sometimes, the result of extreme paranoia is a phobia.

Distrust in the context of interpersonal fear, is sometimes explained as the internal feeling of caution, usually focused towards a person, representing an unwillingness to trust in someone else.

Terror refers to a pronounced state of fear, which usually occurs after the state of horror, when someone becomes overwhelmed with a sense of immediate danger.


Of course it can be related to a number of emotional states including worry, anxiety, terror, fright, paranoia, horror, panic (social and personal), persecution complex and dread.

Fear is related with our body, and as the result, our body includes a large number of responses to fear:
  • the brow or other parts of the body sweat profusely in order to keep the body cool as it flees;
  • the muscles tighten in preparation for combat;
  • the senses are sharpened in order to take in vaster quantities of information;
  • the hands usually as a reaction open and cover face;
  • when a fear stimulus occurs unexpectedly, the victim of the fear response could possibly jump or give a small start;
  • the person's heart rate and heartbeat may go up.


TREATMENT. There are a few steps how to control fear, how to help ourselves.

First of all you should learn how to foster internal control of fear and take the measure of fear. Measuring includes intensity and duration of fear.

Internal control. It means to show that though there are frighten actions, you can exert some control over it.

It is also important to have relaxation training, for instance, meditation or yoga.

If you feel that you can not to “fight” with yours fears, you should to go to psychologist, which would help you. One of the most famous therapies nowadays is cognitive therapy. It is a type of psychotherapy developed by psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck in the 1960s. Beck came to the conclusion that the way in which his clients perceived and interpreted and attributed meaning—a process known scientifically as cognition—in their daily lives was a key to therapy. Cognitive therapy seeks to identify and change "distorted" or "unrealistic" ways of thinking, and therefore to influence emotion and behavior.

So the most important thing is to understand that you can not stay with your fears. You must to cure of them and enjoy your life without any internal or external interferences.

1 comment:

rbrazinskaite said...

Very interesting and useful information for all psychologists. Plus, there are so many pictures, what make the article even more intersting and brilliant!!