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The Other Side of Fear,

okiyoe1
okiyoe1
The journey of working with fear takes place slowly and repeatedly as you go along the path. You may have many reruns: big reruns and then smaller reruns. Each time you experience fear, you re experience and reconnect with the whole idea of genuineness, further and more completely. Fear will definitely arise in your life. Therefore, itâs crucial to understand how to combat that fear by going further into it and then coming out. None of us should regard ourselves as being trapped. From this point of view, we are free. We can do what we want to do. That is one of the key attitudes we should adopt. Even if you experience great fear, you can go in and out of it. That can be done. That is taking an imperial attitude: it can be done, and we can do it. That sense of freedom and fearlessness is very important. If you understand this, then you wonât dwell on your fear.

From âThe Other Side of Fear, â pages 108 to 109, in Smile at Fear
Chögyam Trungpa
CoogeeMum
CoogeeMum
I watched Princess Diaries 3 with daughter last night. And the Fathers letter had this in it...

"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all."

Loved it.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Coog, I love that!!! Thanks!
Group Foundergjm
gjm
As always billy thanks. I was grateful to find out the disease is fear based. Found that out in my 4th step.
I thought me fearful?? Ya right, how wrong I was.
ralop
ralop
Hmm.......I have experienced much of this topic. Going to experience some this coming wed. The kind I will be experiencing on wed. is the kind, in my opinion, shouldn't be purposely re-visited with-out professional help. I don't have the prof. lined up right now so if it revisits me I will just have to muddy my way through it. It is serious, childhood, traumatic fear which is triggered by certain environmental stimuli. I had no idea it would be triggered like this until I began receiving these steroidal shots in my spine. I have worked extensively on the issue in my 23 years in recovery, & though aware there is still work to be done, had no idea I would have as strong of a reaction as a P.T.S.D. attack, but I have. I am slightly sedated as a normal precaution for the procedure which has been proving somewhat helpful. However 2 wks ago while driving to the Provo clinic for the procedure I felt the emotions bubbling up... so I told myself to stuff em! and took one of the 2 pills I'm suppose to take prior to the procedure. 20 minutes later we are at the office & I'm feeling a litte relaxed physically, but I'm nervous emotionally & mentally, so I took the 2nd pill.......... Now I know I was in shock when it all happened as a kid.... & I know I have a great ability with this issue to dissociate / or / block out the whole thing somehow with my mind...... I didn't make it 5 minutes in the office before I was in the 1st black-out of my entire life...........All the drinking in my day & never blacked out before. I only remember about 20 minutes of the 20 hours after the second pill.
I know I was purposely trying to not be conscious of the issue being dug up by the triggering event & I believe between the minds purposeful blocking out & the pills ability to create blackouts I blacked out. I've had 3 previous procedures with the same dose of the same medication and no blackouts. The only difference was my consciously attempting to prevent it this time rather than medicating an already happening reaction.
I am amazed at the minds ability to keep us safe from a perceived fear real or imagined doesn't matter.
I don't know what will happen on wed when I have to do this again, but I think I am ready for just about anything now. I will be okay, this I know. I have a lot of motivation to follow through with the added outside help now and will be seeking out a competent counselor for guidance through this asap.Tired now... so much more to share so maybe tomorrow.
As always Billy...... thanks for the great post.