The Paralysis of Fear
abracad, · Categories: self help, spiritualityIt is said that a rabbit caught in a car's headlights freezes with fear. Though it has time to move left or right its fear paralyzes it, freezing it in the danger zone. Aren't we all a bit like that rabbit?
Fear is natural and healthy. It should serve a useful purpose. It should trigger the fight or flight response, ie it should spur us into taking some appropriate action as a result of our fear.
But too often fear is our enemy. It blurs our thinking and prevents us from doing what we should.
We hear our job is being made redundant and become obsessed with thoughts of poverty. We develop and ache or pain and imagine it's some fatal condition.....
Instead we need to accept the situation that's causing us fear, analyze it, and do something about it.
If our job is made redundant, that's an opportunity to find a new job, meet new people, learn new skills etc. Perhaps a chance to re-train, or try self-employment. Perhaps we shall discover avenues we never knew existed. If we have an unsual ache or pain, get it checked. That way we find out what it is and most likely get it cured.
Fear should be like a warning bell that spurs us to action, not a dark cloud that destroys our ability to function.
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