Science has proven we are born
with the fear of loud noises and the fear of falling. Therefore all other
fears are learned. If someone you trust tells you something that triggers your
fear response, you react. But how you react is your choice.
The three fear responses are fight, flight, or freeze, and all of
these are helpful short term for your safety, but to stay in any of these
twenty-four-seven will break down your nerves, and stress will set in. Stress
creates a compromised immune system, and that is an environment for
disease. Science proves that the ability to control your emotions and
calm your nerves is the best medicine to promote healing to the body and make more
straightforward decisions.
What remedy you choose to calm down is your choice. Do you go for
alcohol, drugs, food, work harder, longer hours? What is your "go-to"
to quell your "learned fear?" Mine is turn off all TV, movie,
loud music, turn off social media, and move away from negative attitudes from
people around me, and go inside with meditation and gratefulness for everything
I have now in my life. I choose what I listen to, who I listen to, and what I
feel, not the world outside of me.
Fear is useful, but I put a time limit on my anxiety. There is a
deadline that I choose to stop worrying. If I stop worrying and have no answers,
I keep meditating or do an activity that gets my mind in a calmer state.
Exercise, walking out in nature, or listening to a teacher's lecture that I
admire; Byron Katie Mitchell, Eckhart Tolle, Pema Chodron, Lisa Romano, Jordan
Peterson, so many more, all of these have free videos on YouTube. These
teachers do not freak out; they do not have panic attacks; they control their
emotions. My goal in life is to control my feelings to live a balanced life. How
I achieve this is to watch where I focus my thoughts. .
Indeed, you will not get the answers from the media. It is also sure
that sitting in front of Netflix and eating pizza all day and night day will
NOT help you. YOU have to change your focus mentally and your diet physically.
YOU alone.
Recently I was enjoying music and meditating at night, and I fell
asleep. I began to dream horrible, disruptive thoughts. Finally, I was so
distressed I woke up. When I awakened, I pulled the earphones out of my ears,
and the loud arguing was STILL going on in my head. It distressed me terribly.
I pulled on my ears and could not shut off the destructive arguing I heard. Then
I ACTUALLY woke up. Accidentally the "autoplay" was turned on in my
iPhone, and it went to the news without my permission.
If dreams give any message, I
supposed it to be this:
"Just because I stopped
listening to destructive news, the stress was still in my mind after I turned
it off because my mind could not forget the instant replay of negative news."
I could not control my thoughts
while plugged into fearful reporting via autoplay in my iPhone.
To remedy this, I now put my meditation CD in my player with earphones.
It is good to unhook from the digital internet as much as possible, and we must
focus on the things we need to do to be safe during these uncertain times and
begin to think of how to create a livelihood. To do this, one must be calm,
collected, and open to new ideas.
News channels have to take the negative and rare events to get the
public's attention or who would tune in day after day? Negative news channels prey on your fears. In
fact, they count on it. Clicks are money in the pockets for newscasters, and if
fear is planted in your thoughts, you're trapped!
Learn to think for yourself with reason and logic. Do your
research, get the facts straight. It takes work to learn how to be responsible
for your life and detect lies. The good news is you were built to think and
choose what is truth. You can do this!
Read books and get off technology as much as possible. Learn to
think for yourself. Your mind is the most valuable tool you have, do not let
anyone steal your mind away from positive words to keep your brain and body
healthy. It is the one thing we all can do, no matter what is going on in the
outside world...choose what we think.
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