Once one’s consciousness really begins to awaken, it becomes clear what is really going on in the world: fear and more fear and insufficient love.

Fear has been, and continues to be, the great controller and the downfall of our species. It disguises itself in many ways: greed, disease, anger, hatred, worry, violence, isolation, defense, offense, excess. These are some of the many scary masks.

We live in a world that is always consumed with activity for personal gain. But this, again, is just a way of trying to lessen our fear. We think that the more we have, the safer we will feel, the less fear we will have. So we go out into the world and compete with our fellow man. If we earn more, we start to worry that we might lose what we have earned, and so we strive to get even more, and then insure ourselves against the possibility of losing what we have earned, because those who want to earn more, too, feed our fear. and convince ourselves that we need to buy your insurance so that we can have peace of mind, so that we don’t have to worry about losing any of our prized possessions.

But buying the illusion that our own, smaller, personal world is safe is not enough. Our fear is much greater than that. So we have become nations and we claim ownership of the earth and its resources and we commit atrocities against each other and against all the inhabitants of the earth and we claim the constitutional right to do so in the name of maintaining national security. This, of course, gives us the right to go to war against other nations in the hope of accessing more resources. The result is an insatiable gluttony that looks like a world in crisis. And of course this is making us even more scared.

So enough about the destructive nature of fear, we all know it personally. What we must ask ourselves now is how do we stop it? How does one go about it? The fact is that fear is a conditioned state of mind that causes extremely strong emotional and physical responses within us. It makes us blind and reactive, it motivates us without really thinking. Their purpose, like other animals in nature, is to activate us when we are in real and immediate danger, but their place in our lives has become nothing short of overwhelming dysfunction. It has surpassed its purpose as an evil and robbed us of the true joy of our birthright.

But this kind of evil fear can be stopped. It can be stopped because it is a conditioned state of mind. And with effort, we can change our conditioned mental states. It is clinically proven that every mental state we experience has a correlated brain wave state. The more we think in a particular way, the more we will think that way. The brain, a highly efficient organizing organ, organizes its neural activity according to habitual mental habits. To be more precise, the brain builds specific neural pathways for mental functioning. Therefore, to be good at anything, practice is the key. Practice allows the brain to organize and develop neurons to make what has been practiced an easy mental activity to perform. As such, using a variety of methods, fear can be practically ‘practiced’ off of us.

The brain wave state of fear resides high in the beta range. The high beta range is a brain wave frequency range common to mental states/feelings of anxiety, agitation, fear, hyperthinking, stress, etc. Knowing this, it’s easy to see why fear is so pervasive in our lives given the high levels of stress endemic to the modern world. In order to feel these feelings we need to lower our brain wave frequencies. This is easier than you think. All that is needed is relaxation, the deeper the relaxation, the better. Anything that makes you relax will lower the frequency of your brain waves from the high beta range. But what is not so easy is to make this a practice. Practice is the key. Without practicing, your brain won’t recondition itself to (eventually) its natural state being more relaxed, even when you’re not practicing being relaxed. To reduce and eventually lose fear, you must practice being relaxed.

Another method to help eradicate fear is the practice of loving-kindness. The sad truth is that most of us are afraid of each other and most of the people we love; we love because it is selfish. Loving them makes us feel good. Saying this is not judging, it is just a discerning fact. It is also not bad that we want to feel good. Feeling good is, after all, a legitimate goal in life. But once we can practice loving-kindness towards everyone, without prejudice, conditions, prejudice, we lose our fear of others and, what’s more, others feel that we are not a threat and, in turn, their fear of us. is reduced. Loving-kindness is a win-win strategy and the most potent antidote to fear.

A third method of reducing our fear is to get into the habit of saying “I fear nothing.” At first this may seem inauthentic, but by practicing it you will eventually start to believe it. The subconscious cannot differentiate what is true or false. If you keep affirming to yourself “I fear nothing”, your subconscious will eventually integrate it as truth and you will begin to experience it as truth. If you say it out loud to yourself right now, it will feel like an empowering statement because words have power. Words create chemical responses in our brain, together words are thoughts and our thoughts affect our brain wave states. When you get up in the morning and when you go to bed at night, say “I am not afraid of anything.” Eventually you will believe it.

I wish you courage.

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