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January 2009 
How do you deal with fear?
Posted on Jan 19th, 2009
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Alice
Alice
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for January 19, 2009:
...very respectfully! ..it makes me retreat - for seconds or days - fear forces me to rethink situations or analyze myself ... which is odd, for I am a very emotional being!
It´s always been so that I´m (outwardly) the calmest when situations excalate and especially when I see others afflicted by fear. No, I´ve never been able to figure out why, but it feels as though intuition just takes control... but I dont "flip-out" but act in rational thinking instead. Others have found this to be aggravating or have blamed me apathetic or unsympathetic for not showing emotion as they would expect... not realizing that my hand is holding theirs, that I´d be the last one to leave them and would rather take it all upon me than see them afraid....
It´s always been so that I´m (outwardly) the calmest when situations excalate and especially when I see others afflicted by fear. No, I´ve never been able to figure out why, but it feels as though intuition just takes control... but I dont "flip-out" but act in rational thinking instead. Others have found this to be aggravating or have blamed me apathetic or unsympathetic for not showing emotion as they would expect... not realizing that my hand is holding theirs, that I´d be the last one to leave them and would rather take it all upon me than see them afraid....
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it’s because most people have been conditioned to see fear as synonymous with shrieking, running amok, etc. What we fail to see is that we were born with the ability to feel fear in order to survive … your method of survival when you feel fear will keep you alive and well much longer than other responses … although sometimes when I see the shrieking and running amok, it scares me more than what caused the fear initially :) barbara