Living in a state of constant fear can be likened to navigating life with heavy chains, restricting our potential and impeding personal growth.
Fear-based living is a pervasive phenomenon that affects individuals on various levels, hindering them from fully embracing life’s opportunities.
In this article, we will explore the detrimental impact of fear-based living, its origins, and ways to break free from its paralyzing grip.
Fear is a natural and adaptive response to perceived threats, helping us navigate dangerous situations.
However, when fear becomes the lens through which we view the world, it transforms into a hindrance rather than a helpful guide.
Fear-based living is characterized by chronic anxiety, apprehension, and an overarching sense of dread that colors every aspect of one’s existence.
Origins of Fear-Based Living
- Individuals who have experienced trauma may find it challenging to break free from fear-based living. Past traumas create a psychological imprint that can lead to chronic terror responses even in non-threatening situations.
- Societal expectations, cultural norms, and external pressures can contribute significantly to fear-based living. The horror of judgment, failure, or not meeting societal standards can lead to a perpetual state of anxiety.
- Setting unrealistic expectations for oneself can also fuel fear-based living. The constant pressure to achieve unattainable goals can generate anxiety, making it difficult to appreciate the present moment.
Impact on Mental and Physical Well-being
Fear-based living is closely linked to mental health issues such as anxiety disorders, depression, and chronic stress. The constant anticipation of potential threats can overwhelm the mind and lead to a negative cycle of thoughts.
The chronic everyday stress associated with fear-based living can manifest physically, contributing to health problems such as cardiovascular issues, weakened immune function, and sleep disturbances.
Breaking Free from Fear-Based Living
Acknowledging the presence of horror and accepting it as a natural part of life is the first step toward breaking free. By understanding the root causes of consternation, individuals can begin to unravel its hold on their lives.
Practices such as mindfulness and meditation help individuals cultivate a present-focused awareness, reducing the grip of terror-based thinking. These techniques empower individuals to observe their thoughts without being overwhelmed by them.
Sharing distress and concerns with friends, family, or mental health professionals can provide valuable support. Creating a network of understanding individuals can help alleviate the isolation that often accompanies fear-based living.
How does someone stop living a fear-based life?
Stopping a distress-based life involves a combination of self-awareness, proactive strategies, and a commitment to personal growth.
- The first step is acknowledging and understanding the anxieties that dominate one’s life. Take time for self-reflection to identify specific anxieties, their origins, and the impact they have on thoughts and behaviors.
- Actively challenge and reframe negative thoughts. Understand that not all fears are rational, and many are based on assumptions rather than concrete evidence. Question the validity of thoughts and replace them with more realistic and positive perspectives.
- Practice mindfulness and meditation to develop a present-focused awareness. These practices help individuals detach from anxious thoughts, fostering a sense of calm and reducing the grip of fear on the mind.
- Gradual exposure to anxiety based situations or stimuli, known as exposure therapy, can help desensitize individuals. Start with small, manageable steps to build confidence and gradually increase the level of exposure over time.
- Break down larger goals into smaller, achievable steps. Setting realistic and attainable objectives helps prevent the overwhelming sense of dread associated with big challenges. Celebrate small victories along the way to build confidence.
- Share concerns with trusted friends, family members, or a mental health professional. Having a supportive network can provide encouragement, perspective, and practical advice. Social support is crucial for breaking the isolation often associated with fear-based living.
- If fear and anxiety persist, consider seeking help from a mental health professional. Therapists can provide valuable insights, coping strategies, and tools to address deep-seated anxieties.
- Focus on cultivating a positive mindset by surrounding oneself with uplifting influences, engaging in activities that bring joy, and practicing gratitude. Shifting the focus towards positivity can help counteract the pervasive nature of them.
- Recognize that life is inherently uncertain, and attempting to control everything is impossible. Embracing uncertainty allows individuals to adapt more readily to change and reduces the anxiety associated with the unknown.
- Engage in continuous learning and personal growth. Developing new skills, pursuing passions, and expanding one’s comfort zone contribute to a sense of competence and self-assurance, counteracting the effects of fear-based living.
Breaking free from a fear-based life is an ongoing process that requires commitment, self-compassion, and a willingness to embrace change.
By combining these strategies, individuals can gradually shift their mindset and live a more empowered and fulfilling life.
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Fear Based Living And The Triune Force
From Tom Kenyon’s site © 2012 Tom Kenyon All Rights Reserved www.tomkenyon.com
You live in a dualistic universe. This is its very nature. It manifests as the principle of opposites in that forces tends to have equal and opposite reactions. This applies to your universe’s physics and the very nature of dualistic consciousness itself.
This dualistic nature of your universe is affected by the Time Acceleration you are going through. One net result of this is an increase in duality or the polarization of human consciousness.
Polarized conflicts between nations, communities, religions, and persons are rising. This unfortunate state of affairs is to be expected as planetary and galactic energetics increase.
Our message deals with a strategy for navigating through the difficulties of increased polarization. Indeed you may have already discovered that in some of your social circles there is a type of hostility and polarized views of situations.
The strategy we suggest is called the Triune Force.
It is an attribute of spiritual mastery and will allow you to move through polarization with greater efficiency and a greater likelihood of manifesting what you desire as opposed to being “caught up” in the dramas of polarization and conflict.
The principle is simple. As a human being, you tend to be attracted to persons or situations, or you are repulsed by them. This tendency to fall into attraction or repulsion is, for the most part, an unconscious act.
You may encounter someone and feel drawn to him or her, and the depth or intensity of the attraction may cause you to delete other information about the person.
Likewise, as situations arise around you, whether they be social, political, or religious, you may likewise find yourself drawn to these situations without other information that would be helpful in determining if a given situation was “right” for you or not.
The same holds true for repulsion. You may find yourself repulsed by someone or a situation, and likewise, identify with the repulsion, thereby cutting yourself off from other information that might be helpful.
The Triune Force
If you were to imagine a triangle, and on the left corner of the triangle was an attraction, and on the right side of the triangle was repulsion, then the point above these two extremes is the Triune Force. It is a mental perspective that has spiritual attributes.
It allows you to float above the situation and view it from multiple angles.
If, for instance, you are attracted to a person and surrender to that attraction without allowing access to signs and information about that person, then you have put yourself in a precarious position.
But by not identifying with the attraction, you “float up” to the Triune Force and are free to observe behaviors that may signal the inappropriateness or dangerous nature of a relationship with that person.
Likewise, if you are repulsed by a person or situation, the Triune Force allows you to “float above” and dis-identify with the repulsion. While you are in this dis-identification, you are free to see other levels involved.
It could be that this person or situation is toxic to you, or it could be that this person or circumstance is a mirror reflecting at you something you do not like in yourself.
By momentarily suspending your identification with either attraction or repulsion, you can see more clearly and access information about the person or situation from an expanded perspective. Knowledge is power, and the Triune Force gives you access to the innate powers of clarity.
So, our suggestion in this time of increased human polarization and Time Acceleration is to watch yourself. When you fall into an attraction, pause for a moment and step away from your identification with the attraction.
Float up above it, as it were, and engage the Triune Force. You do this to enter the relationship, whether it be with a person or a situation, with open eyes.
If a person or a situation repulses you, pause for a moment and dis-identify with your distaste for the person or situation.
Float above the situation or person, as it were, and engage the Triune Force to see more deeply—to sense with greater clarity—if this person or situation is toxic or a mirror for something in yourself that you need to transform.
As you enter more deeply into the polarization phase of planetary assent, the Triune Force can greatly assist you as you pass through this difficult period of increased personal, interpersonal, and collective conflict.
Perception & The Receiver
Perception is indeed relative to the perceiver. And this relativity of perception is no more apparent, I think than in our relationships with each other.
Furthermore, it has been my observation for some time now (i.e., the last several months or so) that the polarization of human relationships is on the rise.
There have, of course, always been differences of opinions. And conflicts between persons and nations are hardly anything new. History is strewn with incidents of ruinous and disastrous encounters between individual people, as well as between religions and cultures.
But what the Hathors are addressing here is an increase in polarized perceptions and beliefs among individuals.
It is their opinion that this disturbing increase in polarization is occurring as a result of the energetics we are all going through (i.e., the changes in our sun, pulses of accelerated evolution from the central sun of our galaxy, and deep space), and the extreme effects of Time Acceleration.
At the end of the session, Judi asked them how long they thought this period of increased polarization would continue.
Their response was that it was difficult to pin down exact time coordinates, but their sense was that this extreme polarization of human perception would continue for at least eighteen months to two years, if not longer.
And furthermore, they expected the intensity of polarization to increase, not decrease during this period. Judi also asked about the strangeness of the polarization experience and inquired if they had any further elaboration to offer.
They said that part of the difficulty we humans are experiencing is the fact that the intensity of planetary and galactic energetics is so extreme, they often short-circuit cognitive processing. As a result, people can become even more erratic and irrational than usual.
If their perceptions and predictions are accurate then it would seem prudent to find some masterful way to get through such a period of increased interpersonal, cultural, and religious discord.
© 2012 Tom Kenyon All Rights Reserved www.tomkenyon.com
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Conclusion
Fear-based living is a pervasive challenge that affects individuals in profound ways.
By understanding its origins, acknowledging its presence, and adopting proactive strategies, individuals can break free from the shackles of fear and embrace a more fulfilling and liberated life.
One can pave the way toward a future defined by courage, resilience, and authentic living through self-awareness, mindfulness, and a supportive network.
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